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Oil Slips But Gold Slumps With USD Strength On Debt Talks & Fedspeak

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  • Crude oil has unwound a little over half of yesterday’s risk-on push higher, hurt primarily by more hawkish Fedspeak and with the US dollar getting a further boost from McCarthy seeing the debt limit deal on the House floor next week.
  • WTI is -1.5% at $71.72 but remains off support at $69.41 (May 15 low) whilst pulling back from resistance at $73.93 (Apr 28 low).
  • Brent is -1.6% at $75.75, holding above support at $73.49 (May 15 low) whilst pulling back from resistance at $77.60 (May 10 high).
  • Gold is -1.2% at $1957.28 for a now 2.9% decline since Monday’s close on the aforementioned factors with the USD surging on debt deal optimism. It has easily cleared support at $1975.1 (May 18 low) and the key $1969.3 (Apr 19 low), opening $1934.3 (Mar 22 low).
  • US HH natural gas has also seen a notable +9.5% increase at typing, continuing to surge after a smaller than expected build in EIA US inventories (+99bch vs expected +108bcf vs 5-year average for time of year of +95bcf).


WTI 1st future (white) and spot gold (yellow)Source: Bloomberg

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