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<span class="bold" >Crude oil</span><span > prices made little headway on Friday, with the WTI benchmark range-bound in familiar territory. US refinery closures courtesy of </span><span class="bold" >Hurricane Harvey</span><span > drove gasoline upward but raw-material costs conspicuously didn&rsquo;t budge. Monday&rsquo;s underwhelming offering of scheduled event risk may leave markets rudderless until the </span><span class="bold" >API</span><span > set of weekly inventory flow statistics comes out on the following day.</span>
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<span class="bold" >Gold</span><span > prices seesawed but ultimately failed to find directional follow-through as Fed Chair Janet Yellen spoke at the annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The US central bank chief </span><a href="https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundamental/forecast/weekly/usd/2017/08/26/US-Dollar-Survives-Yellen-Speech-Looks-on-to-Jobs-DatatofIS.html" class="justify"><span class="underline" >conspicuously avoided</span></a><span > offering pointed policy guidance, leaving the fate of its on-coming balance sheet reduction effort, so-called &ldquo;quantitative tightening&rdquo;, shrouded in mystery.</span>
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<span class="bold color_4472c4" >GOLD TECHNICAL ANALYSIS</span><span class="bold" > &ndash; </span><span >Gold prices continue to mark in familiar territory below resistance in the 1295.46-97.95 area (double top, 23.6% Fibonacci expansion). Negative RSI divergence hints a turn lower may be brewing ahead, with a break below rising trend line support at 1287.10 exposing the 23.6% Fib retracement at 1278.22. Alternatively, a daily close above resistance opens the door for a test of the 38.2% expansion at 1311.94.</span>
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<span class="bold color_4472c4" >CRUDE OIL TECHNICAL ANALYSIS</span><span class="bold" > &ndash; </span><span >Crude oil prices remain locked in a narrow digestion range below the $49/barrel figure. Near-term support is</span><span >at 46.62, the 38.2% Fibonacci expansion, with a daily close below that clearing the way for a challenge of the 50% level at 45.46.</span><span >Alternatively, a move above support-turned-resistance at 48.76 exposes a trend line confluence point at 49.60, followed by the August 1 high at 50.40. </span>
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