Gold prices are trading at a five-month low, under selling pressure even as the New York Federal Reserve reported a sharp drop in activity in the region's manufacturing sector.
My data points for the day showed a 0.7 percent increase in retail sales for July compared to June, which was a surprise and well above market expectations. The report is a hawk on US monetary policy and is key US data ahead of next week's annual Fed symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
In the long term, the USD is said to be difficult to escape from the downward trend due to the Fed's monetary policy reversal and the decline in the payment power of the greenback when many major countries, including China and Russia, are being excluded. decim dollars out of transactions.