{"id":69800,"date":"2026-02-11T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/11\/gold-prices-surge-on-fed-rate-cut-expectations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:58:55","slug":"gold-prices-surge-on-fed-rate-cut-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/11\/gold-prices-surge-on-fed-rate-cut-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Prices Surge On Fed Rate Cut Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Gold prices climbed on Wednesday as unexpectedly weak December U.S. retail sales data prompted traders to price in a further two rate cuts of 25 basis points from the Federal Reserve this year.<\/p>\n<p>Spot gold surged 0.8 percent to $5,063.49 an ounce while U.S. gold futures were up 1.1 percent at $5,086.91.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar dropped against all of its major peers and U.S. Treasury yields fell across the curve amid growing economic uncertainty. <\/p>\n<p>With Federal Reserve officials signaling patience on rate cuts, the focus now shifts to the delayed jobs report later in the day and the CPI report on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Inflation and job creation are expected to hold steady, but revisions to the 2025 jobs numbers are expected to be large.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday said the present level of dollar is more balanced and is beneficial for promoting exports and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He anticipates the GDP could exceed 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 and possibly surpass 6 percent in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett recently warned that U.S. labor market data could be weaker in the near term. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Gold Prices Surge On Fed Rate Cut Expectations<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-11 09:58:55<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold prices climbed on Wednesday as unexpectedly weak December U.S. retail sales data prompted traders to price in a further two rate cuts of 25 basis points from the Federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}