Trader’s Time Out: Surging Dollar Undercuts Precious Metals Rally
Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 8:26 am
From the desk of Evdokia Pitsillidou, Risk Management Associate at easyMarkets.
Precious metals have downshifted this week, with silver prices trading at one-month lows as hawkish signals from the Federal Reserve and improved domestic data drove a large rally in the US dollar.
Gold futures plunged over 1% on Wednesday to settle at their lowest level in over three weeks. The decline followed a period of directionless trading that saw the yellow metal hover around $1,270 a troy ounce.
Meanwhile, declines for silver futures have been much more pronounced. The grey metal also fell more than 1% on Wednesday to ... (read more)