Market Fact: Gold prices recently touched a seven-week peak, driven by growing optimism over the potential reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
The Economic Impact: Progress in reopening the vital waterway caused crude oil prices to tumble, which significantly eased global energy-led inflation fears.
The Fed Connection: With inflation pressures cooling, markets scaled back aggressive expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. Lower expected interest rates weaken the US Dollar and bond yields, creating a powerful bullish macroeconomic backdrop that sent non-yielding gold surging.
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