Mr. Powell has confirmed the continuation of current Fed monetary policy which means that the Fed will raise interest rate in Dec, 2017. The USD has been up since then and which makes gold failing to break the 1296-1297 zone. Gold is currently moving up or down following the USDJPY and the USD GDP report at 13:30 GMT.
North Korea made an ICBM test yesterday, but gold didn’t go up as a safe heaven assets. Gold is following USD index and if the USDJPY confirms a bottom around 110.90-111.00 then gold will drop to test the 1265-1270 soon.
The 1291-1293 is an important zone to watch for gold down trend. Gold will be sold off to 1283-1285 if it can break the 1291-1293 before the US GDP Report at 13:30 GMT.
A bad US GDP Report release will make USDJPY to get sold off and gold will move to 1305-1307 and further.