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Intermarket Relative Strength Analysis Report For The Week Starting 5/12/19 – Part 2

Three days ago, I wrote,

Intermarket Relative Strength Analysis Report For The Week Starting 5/12/19

which talked about the major assets classes in the world, relative to the US dollar using just moving averages. Why the US dollar, because it’s still the most powerful currency in the world and   over half of all foreign currency reserves in the world are in US dollars.  The results were the following:

implying that Gold was showing strength relative to the US dollar going into this week.

Gold futures rose on Monday as investors increased bets the economy would weaken enough to cause the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates later in the year.

What does makes sense is that worries about an escalation of the trade dispute between the United States and China are raising concerns about a U.S. economic slowdown and this could cause a recession.

Flight-to-safety buying in gold is usually a short-term investment strategy. However, expectations of lower interest rates will make the U.S. Dollar a less-attractive investment and this should drive up demand for dollar-denominated gold.

Source

The move on Monday was significant as price formed a new daily demand zone and breached the short term down trend.

If the Equity Markets get startled by the tariff war serving  as a catalyst to slow down the world economy, the chart suggests price will move higher to the daily supply at

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