Daily Gold News: Friday, Dec. 3 – Gold Bounces Ahead of Jobs Data Release

The gold futures contract lost 1.21% on Thursday, as it extended its short-term downtrend following breaking below the recent local lows. Recently the market sold off in a reaction to strengthening U.S. dollar and volatile stock prices, among other factors. This morning gold is retracing some of its yesterday’s decline, as we can see on the daily chart (the chart includes today’s intraday data):

Gold is 0.2% higher this morning, as it is boucning from its yesterday’s new local low of $1,762.20. What about the other precious metals? Silver is 0.2% lower, platinum is 0.6% higher and palladium is 4.1% higher. So precious metals’ prices are mixed this morning.

Yesterday’s Unemployment Claims release has been better than expected at 222,000. Today we will get the important monthly jobs data release at 8:30 a.m. and the ISM Services PMI release.

Where would the price of gold go following today’s Nonfarm Payrolls announcement? We’ve compiled the data since September of 2018, a 39-month-long period of time that contains of thirty nine NFP releases. The first chart shows price paths 5 days before and 10 days after the NFP release. The last three cases are marked with dashed lines. Gold gained 1.92% in November and in October it gained 0.40%.

The following chart shows the average gold price path before and after the NFP releases for the past 39 months. The market was usually advancing ahead of the release day and closing 0.23% higher on the 10th day after the NFP release.

Below you will find our Gold, Silver, and Mining Stocks economic news schedule for today:

Friday, December 3

• 3:30 a.m. Eurozone – ECB President Lagarde Speech

• 8:30 a.m. U.S. – Non-Farm Employment Change, Unemployment Rate, Average Hourly Earnings m/m

• 8:30 a.m. Canada – Employment Change, Unemployment Rate, Labor Productivity q/q

• 9:45 a.m. U.S. – Final Services PMI

• 10:00 a.m. U.S. – ISM Services PMI, Factory Orders m/m

• Tentative, U.S. – Treasury Currency Report

For a look at all of today’s economic events, check out our economic calendar.

Paul Rejczak
Stock Trading Strategist
Sunshine Profits: Analysis. Care. Profits.

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