Gold prices drop back from a 10-month high on Thursday, suffering from their largest one-day decline since August after minutes from the Fed’s January meeting released a day earlier sounded less dovish than investors had expected.
Gold rallied too far too fast on the dovish shift in the Fed’s tone earlier this year and became overbought into the mid $1,300s, and without the support of a weaker dollar or depressed yields, the gold bid disappeared today.