Silver Prices Are Flat Before FOMC

Trading is muted ahead of today’s Fed rate meeting and silver prices remain trapped between last week’s low of $15.16 and this week’s high of $15.83.

Key U.S. data will likely be the Inflation Report and Industrial Production figures which are on deck today and may trigger volatility, potentially creating a break to the current silver price range of $15.16-$15.83.

If this is not enough, then the Fed rate meeting outcome at 18:00 GMT, or the following press conference at 18:30 GMT may well do the trick.

Per the Fed funds’ futures contract, there is only a 2% likelihood that the Fed will raise rates, while 93 out of 97 economists in a Bloomberg poll expect them to remain unchanged at 0.5%.

Instead traders will scrutinize the statement and the press conference for hints of an April or June rate hike. The Fed funds’ futures are giving a 25.1% likelihood of a rate hike in April, followed by a 53.6% probability in June.

If last week’s low of $15.16 holds as a support, then silver may try to recuperate the last 48 hours of losses and possibly reach the high of $15.83. On a successful slide below last week’s low of $15.16, prices may reach the March 3 low of $14.87 followed by the January 29 low of $14.63.

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