Gold Price News and Forecast: XAU/USD - Great Recession vs. 2020 coronavirus crisis

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Gold daily news: XAU/USD trading along last week’s lows

The gold futures contract gained 0.79% on Friday as it slightly retraced Thursday decline of 1.7%. On Thursday it extended a downward correction from the last Monday's new monthly high of $1,775.80. The market has retraced almost all of the decline from April 14 high of $1,788.80, before reversing downwards again. Gold price continues to trade within an over month-long consolidation, as we can see on the daily chart. Read more...

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Implications for Gold – 2007-9 Great Recession vs. 2020 coronavirus crisis

When the economic crisis hits, the first instinct is to analyze the previous catastrophes to learn what to expect from and how to handle the current calamity. So, not surprisingly, many analysts have already pointed to the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) as the most relevant example. However, is really the current coronavirus recession similar to the Great Recession? Let's compare these two big crises and draw investment conclusions for the gold market!

First of all, in terms of scale and pace of the decline, the current crisis is much broader and deeper. It hits practically the whole globe, not only advanced countries, and it affects all offline sectors, not just the financial sector and construction. And in just four weeks, 22 million of Americans made claims for the unemployment benefit.

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Gold Price Analysis: Trades with modest losses, downside seems limited

Gold traded with a mild negative bias through the mid-European session amid the prevalent risk-on mood, albeit has managed to defend the $1722 horizontal support.

Looking at the broader picture, the recent move up has been along a two-month-old upward sloping channel. This coupled with the fact that technical indicators on the daily chart are holding in the bullish territory supports prospects for a further near-term appreciating move.

However, oscillators on hourly charts have been struggling to gain any meaningful traction. The set-up – though seems tilted in favour of bullish traders – warrants some caution before positioning aggressively for any meaningful appreciating move amid stronger USD.

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XAU/USD

Overview
Today last price1726.74
Today Daily Change-7.48
Today Daily Change %-0.43
Today daily open1734.22

 

Trends
Daily SMA201715.66
Daily SMA501663.44
Daily SMA1001626.42
Daily SMA2001559.69

 

Levels
Previous Daily High1740.43
Previous Daily Low1724.46
Previous Weekly High1765.38
Previous Weekly Low1717.34
Previous Monthly High1747.82
Previous Monthly Low1568.46
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%1734.33
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%1730.56
Daily Pivot Point S11725.64
Daily Pivot Point S21717.07
Daily Pivot Point S31709.67
Daily Pivot Point R11741.61
Daily Pivot Point R21749.01
Daily Pivot Point R31757.58