Gold prices broke through key resistance and soared to a new record high while crude oil rebounded towards $78 on broad-based US Dollar weakness. Risk trends and the outlook for the greenback remain key through thin holiday trade around the US Thanksgiving holiday.
Commodities – Energy
Crude Oil (WTI) $77.25 -$0.71 -0.91%
Oil rebounded from support near the bottom of a falling channel that has confined trading since late October to find resistance in familiar territory ahead of the $78 level. Liquidity has thinned out ahead of the US Thanksgiving holiday with nothing on the economic or the earnings calendars to guide risk sentiment, opening the door for knee-jerk volatility into the end of the trading week.

Commodities – Metals
Gold $1192.55 +$0.75 +0.06%
Gold prices have pushed above resistance at the top of a rising channel that has confined trading since the beginning of the month, hitting a new record high. The psychologically significant $1200 level looms ahead. The fundamental docket is empty ahead of the US Thanksgiving holiday, with risk trends and US Dollar sentiment the only catalysts of note.
Silver $18.76 -$0.09 -0.48%
Silver technical positioning continues to point to a bearish reversal, with prices showing sharp negative divergence with the RSI momentum gauge below key psychological resistance at the $19 level. The fundamental landscape is much the same as that of gold, with risk trends and the US Dollar being the primary drivers for the near term.

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