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CFTC Gold Non-Commercial Net Positions comes in at 243.3K

Published Aug 28, 20:01 UTC
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The CFTC Gold Non-Commercial Net Positions, released today, showed a figure of 243.3K USD. This compares to the previous period’s reading of 222.2K USD. No consensus figure was available for this release.

Following the release, the measured market reaction after 15 minutes showed XAUUSD up 20 pips. This move is larger than the median 1-hour move of 10 pips and falls within the top-quarter of historical moves for XAUUSD, which are 19+ pips. Other major pairs saw smaller movements. AUDUSD was up 1.2 pips, EURUSD up 0.2 pips, GBPUSD up 1.3 pips, and NZDUSD up 0.7 pips. USDCAD was down 0.4 pips, USDCHF was up 0.4 pips, and USDJPY was up 1.7 pips. For these pairs, the observed 15-minute moves are small when compared to their respective median 1-hour historical moves, which range from 3 to 5 pips.

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