Gold Snaps Its Four-Week Losing Streak — The Weekly Gold Edge, 5 July 2026
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Week in review: Mon 29 June – Fri 3 July 2026 | Week ahead: Mon 6 – Fri 10 July 2026
Gold's four-week losing streak is over — and it took the weakest US jobs report in four months to end it. Spot gold (XAU/USD) opened the week at $4,068, was ground down to a low of $3,949 in Tuesday's Asian session, then staged a powerful two-day reversal to close Friday at $4,174.95 — up 2.62% on the week. Here's what happened, why it matters, and what to watch in the week ahead.
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The week in numbers
| Week open (Mon 00:00 UK) | $4,068.31 |
| Week close (Fri 23:00 UK) | $4,174.95 |
| Change on the week | +$106.64 (+2.62%) |
| Week high / low | $4,195.33 (Fri) / $3,949.45 (Tue) |
| 5-day Average True Range | $107 per day — an unusually wide week |
Levels are indicative spot prices, computed on the UK clock, and may differ from your broker's quotes.
The turn came in two acts
Monday and Tuesday belonged to the bears. With markets still pricing a 2026 Fed hike after June's dot-plot flip, the dollar index hit a one-year high and gold was sold down to $3,949 — a decisive break of the psychological $4,000 level. It lasted hours, not days. Structural buyers were waiting exactly where the headlines said the bull market was "over".
Act one — Wednesday. Fed Chair Warsh softened his hawkish tone on the Sintra stage, ADP disappointed, and the ISM Manufacturing PMI slipped to 53.3 with a sharp drop in prices paid. Gold spiked more than $100 off the morning low to $4,116 before settling at $4,031.
Act two — Thursday. June non-farm payrolls, brought forward by the US holiday, landed at just +57,000 against roughly +110,000 expected. September rate-hike odds collapsed from 66% to around 50%, the dollar and Treasury yields fell, and gold jumped from ~$4,068 to $4,142 within ninety minutes — closing the day up 1.97%. Friday's holiday-thinned Asian session stretched the move to the week's high of $4,195.
The lesson of the week is the first habit of every effective gold trader: gold is, before anything else, a bet on real interest rates. When the market stopped pricing Fed hikes, gold stopped falling — within minutes, not days.
The week ahead: 6–10 July
Overall bias: constructive — buy-dips while $4,100 holds, but respect Wednesday's hawkish-minutes risk.
The rates channel has turned in gold's favour, and the structural bid remains: central banks are on course for 750–850 tonnes of buying in 2026 (World Gold Council), with bank year-end forecasts clustered between $4,900 and $6,300. The one event that could spoil it is Wednesday's FOMC minutes (19:00 UK) from the hawkish 17 June meeting — a hawkish read could claw back the post-payrolls repricing. Beyond that, Tuesday 14 July's US CPI hangs over everything.
Levels to watch
- $4,195–$4,200 — last week's high and the round number: first resistance. A daily close above opens the way toward $4,300.
- $4,100 — the post-NFP breakout shelf and this week's line in the sand for the constructive bias.
- $4,000–$3,950 — the psychological level and last week's low: the bull/bear line. Below $3,949, the rebound thesis is wrong.
Key diary dates (UK time)
- Mon 15:00 — US ISM Services PMI: first big post-payrolls data point.
- Wed 19:00 — FOMC minutes: the event of the week.
- Thu 13:30 — US initial jobless claims: now a first-tier release.
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