{"id":1979,"date":"2023-04-29T10:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/markets\/commodities\/gold-pinned-below-2000-as-rate-hike-fears-persist\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:18:50","slug":"gold-pinned-below-2000-as-rate-hike-fears-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Gold pinned below $2,000 as rate hike fears persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By Ambar Warrick<\/p>\n<p>Investing.com &#8212; Gold prices inched up after recent losses on Monday, remaining under pressure as fears of a looming interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve dented appetite for the yellow metal, as did a recent spike in Treasury yields.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bullion prices marked two straight weeks of losses as hawkish comments from Fed officials and some stronger-than-expected economic data ramped up fears that the Fed will keep hiking interest rates this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Such a scenario heralds more downward pressure for gold, given that rising lending rates push up the opportunity cost of holding bullion, which offers no yields. This notion saw gold lose the $2,000 mark, while the  strengthened.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"> was flat at $1,983.94 an ounce, while  rose 0.2% to $1,993.95 an ounce by 20:48 ET (00:48 GMT). Both instruments lost over 1% in the prior week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gold\u2019s two-week decline comes shortly after the yellow metal surged to near record highs, driven largely by increased safe haven demand as markets feared a potential banking crisis and a recession this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fears of a recession, especially as  rise further, are expected to provide some support to the yellow metal, given its safe haven status. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"> show that markets are pricing in a nearly 90% chance that the Fed will hike rates by 25 basis points (bps) when it meets next week. While the central bank is then expected to signal a pause in June, markets are pricing in a small but growing possibility of another 25 bps hike in June. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Several Fed speakers recently signaled that interest rates will rise further, given that U.S. inflation is still trending well above the central bank\u2019s target range. Rate hike decisions from other major central banks are also due next, including the  and the . <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Any tightening in global monetary conditions heralds more pressure on gold.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Other precious metals were mixed on Monday, with  down 0.8%, while  rose 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Among industrial metals, copper futures fell slightly, extending steep losses from the past week as fears of slowing industrial activity weighed heavily.  fell 0.1% to $3.9888 a pound.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Growing uncertainty over an economic recovery in China, which is the world\u2019s biggest copper importer, also hurt the red metal\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/commodities-news\/gold-pinned-below-2000-as-rate-hike-fears-persist-3062234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ambar Warrick Investing.com &#8212; Gold prices inched up after recent losses on Monday, remaining under pressure as fears of a looming interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve dented appetite for the yellow metal, as did a recent spike in Treasury yields. Bullion prices marked two straight weeks of losses as hawkish comments from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodities","tag-featured","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gold pinned below $2,000 as rate hike fears persist | iFintechWorld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Gold prices inched up after recent losses on Monday, remaining under pressure as fears of a looming interest rate hike\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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