Market Recap 

XAUUSD 
XAUUSD opened Thursday’s session at 5161.85 and traversed a 75.0-point range, or 1.45% of the open, from a high of 5205.5 at 07:25 to a low of 5130.5 at 17:27, before settling at 5184.9. The close marked a gain of 23.05 on the day, up about 0.45%, and finished above the intraday midpoint at 5168.0, leaving price in the upper half of the range by the bell. Price action sketched an early advance that pushed briefly through the 5200 handle into the 5205.5 peak, then rolled lower through the middle of the session to register the trough in the late afternoon, holding above the 5100 round level flagged as the nearest 100-handle reference. Into the final stretch, XAUUSD recovered back through the midpoint to settle more than 20 points off the high yet well clear of the day’s base. On the higher timeframes, daily context showed price trading above the 21-day EMA at 5032.61, while D1 RSI14 printed 55.43. The H4 MACD read 24.43. The session thus concluded with a positive close relative to the open, with the market maintaining distance from the noted 5100 round level and finishing closer to the top of the day’s span after posting the high early in the morning and the low later in the afternoon, with the 5168.0 midpoint serving as a pivot reclaimed into the close. 

DJ30 
DJ30 posted a fresh 5‑day high at 49,867.41 at 16:37 before sliding to an intraday low of 49,258.46 at 19:50, finishing the session at 49,340.46. From an open at 49,523.46, the index fell 183.0 points, or 0.37%. The day’s range spanned 608.95 points, equal to 1.23% of the open. Price advanced from the 49,500s through the 49,800 handle into the high, then retraced into the 49,200–49,300 area late in the session; the close sat closer to the day’s floor than to the peak and below the session midpoint. The low remained above the 49,200 handle, while the settle was aligned with the 49,340 ten‑handle mark and about 40.5 points above the 49,300 handle, with price action crossing multiple 10‑handle thresholds during the day. On the higher‑timeframe backdrop, the close landed just under the D1 EMA21 at 49,387.18, placing settlement marginally below that moving average into the session end. The intraday path featured a push to the new 5‑day top in mid‑afternoon followed by a late‑day decline that undercut the open and carried the index beneath the 49,500 handle, with final prints holding above 49,300. By the close, DJ30 had traversed 49,867.41 to 49,258.46 and parked at 49,340.46, encapsulating a session that started above 49,500, tested the upper 49,800s, and then settled nearer the lower end of the day’s distribution. 

EURUSD 
EURUSD ended the session lower, settling at 1.17923, a decline of 0.00166 or 0.141% from the 1.18089 open. Price set its intraday high early at 1.18283 at 03:47, then drifted lower to a low of 1.17732 at 19:49, before lifting into the close. The session spanned 0.00551, equivalent to 0.47% of the open. The close sat below the session midpoint at 1.18007, placing it in the lower half of the day’s range and closer to the trough than the peak. Price action traversed both sides of the 1.1800 figure, as reflected by the midpoint at 1.18007 and the close at 1.17923. In sequence, EURUSD advanced from the open into the 03:47 high, retraced across the middle hours into the 19:49 low, and then recovered part of the downswing into the session end; the settlement was 0.00191 above the day’s low and 0.00360 beneath the day’s high. The high was recorded at 03:47 and the low at 19:49, marking an early top and a late-session floor in server time. From a higher-timeframe context, the session low remained above the flagged 10-day low at 1.17414, keeping the latest pullback clear of that reference point. On the H1 chart, RSI(14) registered 46.76 by the end of the period. The day thus delivered a 55-pip range around the mid-1.18 area with a finish below the internal midpoint and a floor that stayed above the recent 10-day trough. 

Economic Calendar Recap & Preview 

Labor and price data over the last day offered a mixed signal: US Initial Jobless Claims came in at 212,000, up from 206,000 but still below the 216,000 consensus, while Japan’s Tokyo CPI excluding food and energy rose 2.5 percent year over year, after 2.4 percent previously and matching the 2.5 percent forecast. Over the coming 24 hours, focus shifts to the UK and North America. At 13:00 server time, BoE MPC member Pill speaks, remarks that could help frame UK policy expectations ahead of upcoming decisions. The data slate intensifies at 13:30, when Canada releases GDP month over month; the prior reading was 0.0 percent and the forecast is also 0.0 percent. Simultaneously at 13:30, the United States prints PPI month over month, with both the previous and the forecast at 0.5 percent. If PPI exceeds the 0.5 percent expectation, that would signal firmer pipeline price pressures that can feed through to consumer inflation and policy expectations. With Canadian GDP and US PPI landing at the same time, a brief bout of cross-asset volatility around 13:30 is possible, particularly in USD and CAD pairs.