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Gold Slips as Fed Chief Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech Looms

Fed Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech is anticipated to provide guidance on market volatility and U.S. Treasury's bond buyback plans.

  • Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote today at 10 a.m. ET, an event generating significant anticipation in financial and crypto communities.
  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Aug. 19 that the government will double buybacks of longer-dated notes to at least $4 billion starting Sept. 9, aiming to contain Treasury yields.
  • Spot gold hit a three-month high before easing 0.5% to $4,576.30, while the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index stood at 3.7% in the 12 months through July.
  • StoneX analyst Matt Simpson said the case for Warsh to lean hawkish is greater than the case against, potentially pressuring gold despite bulls eyeing another crack at $5,000.
  • Traders see a 74.2% chance of a rate hike by year-end according to the CME FedWatch tool, as markets weigh how the Fed will manage the $40 trillion federal debt.
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The Treasury revenues operate high, while investors await the speech of the president of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Kevin Warsh, at the symposium of Jackson Hole, in search of signs on the trajectory of monetary policy in the face of persistently above-target inflation and the high rates of long-term Treasurys. At around 8:30 a.m., the yield of the two-year T-note rose to 4.24%, from 4.238% in the previous closing, while that of the ten-year T-n…

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FXStreet broke the news on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
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