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On this day — July 31, 2022

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Day 212 of 365 · Q3 2022 · 58.1% through the year

July 2022 gold market: Gold breaks below $1,700

Bearish

A break below $1,700 on relentless dollar strength.

Gold fell hard in July, slipping under $1,700 to around $1,680 as the dollar surged to two-decade highs and the Fed delivered another 75-point hike. It was one of the weakest stretches of the year for the metal.

What drove gold in July 2022

  • second consecutive +75bp Fed hike
  • dollar at 20-year highs
  • real yields rising sharply
  • ETF outflows
Themes#US dollar strength#Fed policy#rate hikes

Key events in July 2022

  1. Jul 21Gold breaks below $1,700 on dollar strength

What happened next

Dollar strength kept pressuring gold to a September low near $1,620.

For gold buyers

July's break below $1,700 marked peak pessimism for dollar-based buyers — though local-currency buyers in weak-currency countries felt far less pain.

Jul 31 across the years — 20202021

-7.1% over 1 years
20202021
YearJul 31 closevs prior
Jul 31, 2021$1,825.80-7.08%View
Jul 31, 2020$1,964.90View
Each row is the verified XAU/USD spot close for Jul 31 of that year. Click any row to open the full daily archive (with country tables for Jul 31, 2020+).