Commodities

Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent on Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization, escalating the war in Ukraine and raising fears of further oil and gas shortages. Brent crude futures rose $2.28, or 2.5 percent, to $92.90 a barrel by 0707 GMT, after falling …

On Tuesday, Democratic and Republican senators asked for imposing secondary sanctions on international banks to strengthen a price cap G7 countries plan to impose on Russian oil over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.The news adds momentum to the prevalent risk aversion and exerts downside pressure on the AUD/USD prices but fails …

WTI crude oil was under more pressure on Tuesday ahead of the decision by FOMC meeting that has already started on Tuesday. Traders are in anticipation of another rate hike of US interest rates to encounter high inflation. WTI was down by some 0.9% trading around $84.25 having fallen from …

Gold and silver prices are hesitantly lower in midday US session on Tuesday. Hawkish signals on monetary policies from the US central bank as well as other major central banks cast greyish shades on the stock and financial markets at the present moment.The hawkish tone with expectations of aggressive tightening …

Oil prices dropped on Tuesday, following other risk assets’ downtrend, while the US dollar remains strong and investors anticipate more central bank interest-rate hikes designed to contain inflation.The US Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by another 75 basis points on Wednesday in an additional step aiming at …

Gold prices fell on Tuesday, September 20, under pressure from the stability of the dollar and the rise in US bond yields, at a time when the US Federal Reserve is preparing to announce a major interest rate hike to curb inflation. And gold fell in spot transactions by 0.4% …

Oil prices have advanced slightly amid higher volatile trading on Monday, as worries of tight supplies outweighed fears of global economic slowdown and likely large increases to interest rates.Brent crude for November rose 65 cents, or 0.7%, to $90.6 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for October was …

Oil prices have advanced slightly amid higher volatile trading on Monday, as worries of tight supplies outweighed fears of global economic slowdown and likely large increases to interest rates.Brent crude for November rose 65 cents, or 0.7%, to $90.6 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for October was …

The impact of Russia’s sudden block of natural gas taps to Europe has saturated manufacturers and businesses in fresh risks. Energy prices climbed so fast that some factory owners had to rewrite business forecasts six times in two months. Recently, some manufacturers have put a third of their employees on …

The financial markets’ focus is still on major central banks as the US dollar and Treasury yields continue to dictate their saying. Gold prices encounter some pressure at the start of this week, earlier on the day, prices were sliding by 0.20% after falling from $1679 high to $1,659 low …