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Gold’s Sideways Range Remain Intact – Brace for Trade Plan!

The safe-haven-metal prices dropped mainly due to the Asian stocks, which traded higher in the wake of optimism surrounding the United States and China trade war.

As we already mentioned that the gold prices dropped on the day because the United States is expected to sign the on-going phase-one trade deal with China this week.

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According to the agreement, China will increase imports from the U.S. in exchange for the stop of the December tariffs on Chinese imports to the U.S. and a partial rollback of some existing tariffs.

At the Iran-US front, the situation in Iran is still active due to people’s rally as its citizens protested for a 2nd-night after the government acknowledged on Saturday that it had mistakenly show down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board.

On the other hand, the gold prices got some support from the stable bond prices in the wake of unexpectedly weaker December U.S. payroll growth. That sent the interest lower and giving attraction to the non-yielding gold.

Iran’s statement came only after the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia said they know that an Iranian missile hit the plane according to our intelligence, but Iran did not accept it first.

Looking forward, further important U.S. macro is scheduled to release this week and will remain under the trader’s focus to take fresh direction. The U.S. economic docket this week shows the release of the latest consumer inflation figures on Tuesday, and monthly retail sales data is scheduled to release on Thursday.

Daily Support and Resistance

S3 1523.29
S2 1540.25
S1 1551.19
Pivot Point 1557.21
R1 1568.15
R2 1574.17
R3 1591.13

Gold continues to consolidate in the same trading range, which it maintains on Friday. The metal is trading around 1,552 level while it’s current trading range appears to be 1,561 – 1,543.

On Monday’, gold’s most important trading level will be 1,556. Beneath this mark, gold can trade with selling bias unto 1,550 and 1,545. Whereas, an upward breakout of 1,555 can stretch the bullish trend until 1,561. Good luck!

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