Daily Gold News: Gold Bounces Following Thursday’s Sell-off

The gold futures contract lost 2.39% on Thursday, as it broke below its previous local low and $1,800 price mark following strengthening U.S. dollar, among other factors. The market gave back almost all of December’s advance. Recently gold retraced some of that sell-off but yesterday it continued the downtrend, as we can see on the daily chart ( the chart includes today’s intraday data ):

Gold is 0.5% higher this morning, as it is bouncing back above $1,800 price level. What about the other precious metals? Silver lost 2.44% on Thursday and today it is 0.8% higher. Platinum lost 1.03% and today it’s 1.0% higher. Palladium gained 0.18% and today it’s 0.8% higher. So precious metals are slightly higher this morning.

Yesterday’s Unemployment Claims release has been better than expected at 779,000.

Today we will get the Nonfarm Payrolls announcement at 8:30 a.m.

Where would the price of gold go following jobs news? We’ve compiled the data since September of 2018, a 29-month-long period of time that contains of twenty nine NFP releases.

The first chart shows price paths 5 days before and 10 days after the NFP release. The last three cases are marked with dashed lines. Gold gained 2.7% in December and 1.1% in January.

The following chart shows the average gold price path before and after the NFP releases for the past 29 months. The market was usually advancing ahead of the release day and closing 0.40% higher on the 10th day after the NFP release.

Below you will find our Gold, Silver, and Mining Stocks economic news schedule for today:

Friday, February 5

• 8:30 a.m. U.S. – Non-Farm Employment Change, Unemployment Rate , Average Hourly Earnings m/m
• 8:30 a.m. Canada – Employment Change, Unemployment Rate, Trade Balance
• 10:00 a.m. Canada – Ivey PMI

For a look at all of today’s economic events, check out our economic calendar.

Paul Rejczak
Stock Selection Strategist
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