Gold prices were holding onto the key $1,800 level Friday, as the precious metal headed for a weekly loss.
December gold
GC00,
GCZ21,
was drifting back and forth across the $1,800 an ounce level, with a loss for the week so far standing at roughly 1.8%. The precious metal finished 0.4% higher at $1,800 an ounce on Thursday, following declines in each of the two previous sessions.
Thursday’s seesaw session came after weekly U.S. benefit jobless claims fell to the lowest since the pandemic began and the European Central Bank said it would slow asset purchases.
“The price appears to be profiting from the fall in bond yields in the U.S. yesterday following a successful bond auction that met with brisk demand,” said Daniel Briesemann, analyst at Commerzbank, in a note to clients.
U.S. stock index futures
ES00,
NQ00,
indicated a higher open for Wall Street. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced vaccine mandates for millions of U.S. workers, in a bid to fight surging COVID-19 cases driven by the delta variant. Investors are waiting on U.S. producer price data for August due Friday. The Dollar Index
DXY,
slipped modestly to 92.42, while the yield on the 10-year Treasury note
TMUBMUSD10Y,
rose 2 basis points to 1.3191%.
In other metals trading Friday, December copper
HGZ21,
rosee 1.9% to nearly $4.37 a pound. October platinum
PLV21,
rose 0.1% to $975.70 an ounce, while December palladium
PAZ21,
jumped 2.4% to $2,193.50 an ounce.
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2021-09-10 12:22:00
