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Spot gold dropped over 1% to $1,839 per ounce after 11 of 18 Fed officials projected at least two quarter-point rate hikes for 2023. The dollar and Treasury yields rose on the announcement.
The earlier rate-hike projection strengthened the dollar, a headwind for dollar-priced agricultural commodities and a support for importing currencies' purchasing costs.
cnbc.comReutersJun 16, 2021After 2,356 past bullish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (60% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.7%), and +0.4% over 20.
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.
