Gold is under renewed selling pressure, having risen to 1,952 on the first trading day of September, breaking out of the ascending channel on the 4-hour chart and returning to the May-August bearish channel. XAUUSD on Wednesday’s trading closed -0.4% down, a 1-week low. Wednesday’s rise in the US dollar index to a 5-month high
USDJPY back down testing the lows The early buying of the USD in the North American session, took the price above its 100-hour moving average near 145.70. The high price reached 145.755 and 145.733 consecutive hourly bars. However, momentum could not be sustained (with the next key target at 145.90), and short-term buyers were forced