As expected in my earlier column titled Gold Prices Set to Decline on
Vaccine Shocks, positive news of Covid-19 vaccines continues to hit
gold prices. All eyes now turn to when exactly the vaccination will be
available. The FDA has scheduled a meeting on Dec. 10 to discuss the
request for emergency use authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine from
Pfizer. Once receiving the approval, a mass vaccination campaign will
start on Dec. 11, at the soonest.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx official website.
Not only the two US pharmaceutical companies, a British drugmaker has
also successfully developed the vaccine. The UK is on track to start
vaccine roll-out by the end of December. By this account, countries in
the US and Europe - the epicenters of the pandemic - will launch
accessible vaccines for all in the first two quarters of next year,
paving the way for normal economic activities. In this case, shakeouts
for gold and silver are just around the corner once central banks take
less accommodative measures, such as ceasing the program of quantitative
easing (QE).
In 2013, the Fed was poised for the market exit amid the full economic
recovery, while Europe and Japan were gearing up for a QE program by
increasing the money supply. Bulls at the time strongly believed that
gold prices would rocket amid new rounds of QE from the ECB and BoJ,
despite the Fed's market exit. Contrary to what they expected, gold
prices were set to retreat in this context.
Gold prices were not
able to bottom out until December 2015, when the Fed confirmed to raise
the interest rate. The reversal in gold occurred at this point because
only then was the news of market exit and rate hike priced in. It is
expected the Fed, RBNZ and RBA will take the lead in reducing QE and
take the first step to exit the market next year.
With that said, central banks' cut in QE will deliver a lethal blow to
gold prices. The key support underpinning the short-term gold will
vanish soon after the rally. While the moving averages could signal the
topside resistance and downside support, investors can refer to the RSI
to deploy trading strategies if not clear about gold prices' bottom
level or oversold level.
By | buzai232 |
Added | Dec 11 '20, 04:21AM |
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