
Analysts expect gold and silver prices to stay volatile this week as investors watch inflation data from India, the US, the UK, the Eurozone and Japan. Fed minutes, US jobs data and Chinese industrial output are also on the calendar.
Analysts said further US-Iran escalation could lift crude oil prices and reinforce expectations of tighter monetary policy.
Crude oil and rate expectations are the main channels linking this week's events to feed costs, since higher energy prices raise transport and processing costs. Bullion itself is not a feed input, so the direct effect on feed markets is limited.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.