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CURRENT EDITION / 2026-08-28 / OBSERVED DATA / NO FORECASTS

Gold Data Brief

See what changed across current metal prices, official macro series, COMEX positioning and reviewed releases—without compressing different clocks into one market story.

OBSERVED EVIDENCE · EDITION 2026-08-28

Four clocks, kept separate

Every comparison stays inside its own publication cadence. The page does not force daily, weekly and monthly observations onto a false common date.

Edition evidence SHA-256 cdc64def4493b6e8925bed720bdb752af7ea3c61cfb3360c093ff8493310f4f7

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From source rows to reviewed evidence

Use the linked ledgers to distinguish the current Brief edition from the source snapshots underneath it. A hash identifies the retained bytes; it does not turn a retrieval time into an official publication time.

WEEKLY POSITIONINGPositions dated 2026-08-18

Managed-money net rose while total open interest rose

Managed-money net141,648+3986 contracts vs. 2026-08-11
Open interest406,260+1.49% week to week

These are COMEX futures positions and participation, not total investment demand or a directional gold signal.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionBaseline generated Aug 25, 2026, 10:34 UTC060d228296ad
LATEST REVIEWED RELEASEJuly 2026

Personal Income and Outlays — July 2026

PCE price index monthly change0.2%Previous -0.1%
PCE price index excluding food and energy monthly change0.2%Previous 0.1%

Published PCE price-index observations are not consensus surprises, gold-price reactions, causal estimates, forecasts or trading instructions. BEA may revise estimates in later releases and annual updates.

Official releasePublished Aug 26, 2026, 12:30 UTCFirst observed Aug 27, 2026, 04:52 UTC12ee687fefdd
Current edition evidence table
IndicatorCadenceObservationCurrentPriorChangeSource state
10-year real yielddaily2026-08-262.34%2.32%+0.02 ppVersioned latest-vintage baseline
Broad U.S. dollardaily2026-08-21118.06118.25-0.16%Versioned latest-vintage baseline
Federal Reserve total assetsweekly2026-08-26$6.73tn$6.75tn-0.22%Versioned latest-vintage baseline
Managed-money netweekly2026-08-18141,648137,662+3986 contractsVersioned CFTC archive baseline

Method. Each row compares the latest two observations inside its own official cadence. Daily, weekly and monthly series are not forced onto one timestamp and no missing observation is interpolated.

Limit. This brief describes observed releases and versioned baselines. It does not measure market surprise, prove causation, predict gold prices or provide trading instructions. Latest-vintage macro values may include later revisions.

OPEN SUBSCRIPTION · REVIEWED EDITIONS ONLY

Follow evidence changes without a news feed

Each feed publishes one item only after a reviewed edition enters the immutable archive. It carries changed-source labels, observation clocks, the edition hash, method boundaries and a link that restores the exact edition.

Delivery boundary. These are static public feeds, not email, push notifications or a real-time price alert. No item is created when reviewed source fingerprints remain unchanged.

RETAINED EDITIONS · 5 VERSIONS

What changed between reviewed briefs

Each point is a complete reviewed evidence manifest, not a sampled market price. A source appears as changed only when its retained fingerprint differs from the prior edition.

SELECTED EDITION

2026-08-28

Compared with 2026-08-27.2.

Evidence change
Macro baseline · Official release
Macro observations
DFII10 2026-08-26 · DTWEXBGS 2026-08-21 · WALCL 2026-08-26
CFTC positions dated
2026-08-18
Official release first observed
Aug 27, 2026, 04:52 UTC
Calendar coverage through
2026-12-28
Macro baseline generated
Aug 28, 2026, 02:49 UTC
CFTC baseline generated
Aug 25, 2026, 10:34 UTC
GoldObserve review
Aug 28, 2026, 04:12 UTC

Evidence SHA-256cdc64def4493b6e8925bed720bdb752af7ea3c61cfb3360c093ff8493310f4f7

RETAINED SOURCE CHAIN

Macro baselinesrc/data/macro-baseline.jsonGenerated 2026-08-28T02:49:59.421ZFile SHA-256 fd49204702cb27adbbd79c7a967fcd8e8a5da5a9367229c833ee2531e3b6f79e
CFTC positioningsrc/data/cftc-gold-futures-only.jsonGenerated 2026-08-25T10:34:05.3993692ZFile SHA-256 672ab5dff0905ca0a82fdc3b2baf33e170e9ae0acf15a57ea0b64479b3b3fc96
Official releasesrc/data/gold-market-event-results.jsonReviewed 2026-08-27T04:52:31.245ZFile SHA-256 936554e3b2d418dce1346f98bf47488d9fc16f6200c01b6f85cfad9546c4dfad
Release calendarsrc/data/gold-market-calendar.tsReviewed 2026-08-09T01:17:51.304ZFile SHA-256 0792ff80cc0720ecbc527e14ad6fcc22013c5616d199206e88f3b5fde0785a98
Live metals policysrc/data/nbu-precious-metals-accounting-daily.jsonDaily local baseline · local-derived-onlyNo redistributed provider file
Retained edition index
EditionReviewedPrior editionChanged evidenceCFTC dateCalendar throughHash
2026-08-28Aug 28, 2026, 04:12 UTC2026-08-27.2Macro baseline, Official release2026-08-182026-12-28cdc64def4493b6e8
2026-08-27.2Aug 27, 2026, 05:35 UTC2026-08-27Macro baseline2026-08-182026-12-28b936be0a7bf90994
2026-08-27Aug 27, 2026, 04:54 UTC2026-08-25Macro baseline, Official release, Release calendar2026-08-182026-12-2805801e544dcde3ff
2026-08-25Aug 25, 2026, 10:57 UTC2026-08-15Macro baseline, CFTC positioning2026-08-182026-12-28b139fcd2a81fdbd7
2026-08-15Aug 15, 2026, 00:51 UTCNone retainedArchive origin2026-08-112026-12-28b3ec06d4b97b8933

Interpretation boundary. A changed fingerprint shows that reviewed evidence changed between editions. It does not identify a cause, measure market impact, or predict a price move.

FIRST LOOK · EXACT-TIMESTAMP 1D

What changed across gold, silver and the ratio?

The comparison waits for valid gold and silver observations on exact shared timestamps. Each path is rebased to 100 so unlike price scales can be compared without a misleading dual axis.

Loading synchronized XAU and XAG observations…
Why this comparison is unavailableGoldObserve removed the former provider-derived intraday route pending redistribution authorization. No substitute line or synthetic ratio history is generated; the independently sourced daily and monthly libraries remain separate.

SCHEDULED · NOT OBSERVED

What comes next

These are source-reviewed publication times, not expected values or predicted market reactions. Tentative entries remain labelled.

READING BOUNDARY

Observation is not explanation

A higher real yield, a lower dollar index, a positioning change and an inflation release can occur on different dates and through different mechanisms. This page records those observations together for convenience; it does not claim that one caused the other or that any combination predicts the next gold-price move.

Use the market dashboard for deeper interactive history, the correlation explorer for matched-date relationship tests, the COT report for the full positioning ledger and data sources for provider and revision details.