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A primary purpose of holding or investing in gold is to protect one’s portfolio against high inflation. It has always been considered an inflationary hedge. Simply put, one can extrapolate that if interest rates remain elevated or spike higher it will provide bullish tailwinds supportive of higher gold pricing.
This has pressured gold off the highs achieved last Friday. Tuesday's release of the CPI took gold futures down $25, and on Wednesday gold recovered gaining back approximately $15 of Tuesday’s decline. For the remainder of the week, gold softened but still did not trade to a lower low than the low achieved on Tuesday.
Market participants will now begin to enter a “wait-and-see mode” as the Federal Reserve will begin the March FOMC meeting. According to the CME’s FedWatch tool, it is almost a certainty that they will not announce or initiate any rate cuts for March. They will however release their most current economic outlook and release a revised “dot plot” an integral component of the SEP .
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