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Gold rises as oil jumps without shifting Fed-tightening expectations

With September rate expectations roughly split and the 10-year yield still below 4.75%, markets are using this week’s CPI release to test whether oil pushing toward $90 will translate into core inflation.

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Gold has continued to climb even as Brent has rebounded from around $70 in July toward the near $90 level, a divergence that suggests markets are less convinced that higher oil will automatically lead to higher core inflation and renewed Fed tightening, Action Forex reports. The signal is reinforced by rates, with the 10-year Treasury yield still contained below 4.75% and trading pointing to roughly even odds of a September Fed hold.

Into Wednesday’s US CPI release, the test is whether a recent oil surge can force a shift in the policy outlook. The article notes that the oil to inflation relationship looked different earlier in the year during the first Iran-war shock, when higher oil more directly fed into inflation fears, pushed yields higher, and produced a more hawkish Fed outlook, pressuring gold at times.

Consensus expects headline CPI to slow from 3.5% to 3.4% year over year, while core inflation is forecast to edge down from 2.6% to 2.5%. The piece highlights that a 2.5% core print would mark a return to the levels seen before the first war-disrupted inflation move, after core readings rose from 2.5% in January and February to 2.9% in May before easing back to 2.6% in June.

Even so, the article cautions that July inflation data were collected before the latest Hormuz escalation reached its most acute phase, including tanker attacks and a breakdown in shipping crossings, meaning a clean CPI result would not fully capture the impact of the newest energy shock, according to Action Forex.

Latest closeGold $4,430.80 ▲1.6%|Brent $89.26 ▲1.8%

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