Oil prices surged about 4% on Friday, boosted by real as well as threatened cuts to supply, although futures posted a second weekly decline as aggressive interest rate hikes and China’s COVID-19 curbs weighed on the demand outlook.Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to halt oil and gas exports to …
Read More »Gold’s sharp reversal indicates difficult recovery
As the US dollar trims losses on Friday amid risk appetite and a rebound in US yields, the Gold Index is hovering around $1710.Gold turned to the downside again after approaching the $1730 area and pulled back sharply toward $1710, erasing daily gains on Friday. The stabilized dollar and rebounding …
Read More »Gold is gaining lustre and hitting its highest level in more than a week
Gold prices rose more than 1 percent on Friday to its highest level in more than a week as a weak dollar boosted demand for the yellow metal, even as Federal Reserve policymakers pledged to raise interest rates to tame inflation pressures. And gold rose in spot transactions 1.1 percent …
Read More »Oil rises on supply support, but is heading for a weekly decline
Oil prices rose on Friday, boosted by investor interest in Russia’s threat to halt oil and gas exports to some buyers, but crude is set for a second weekly decline as demand is affected by large interest rate increases by central banks and the impact of coronavirus-related restrictions in China. …
Read More »WTI edges higher on Russia’s threats
Crude prices edged higher by about 1% on Thursday after abandoning a seven-month low in the prior session as some technical traders bought the dip and Russia threatened to halt oil and gas exports to some buyers.That price increase came despite a surprise size of US crude inventories, news that …
Read More »Belgium Warns: EU Economy At Risk On Energy Crisis
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo warned that Europe is in need to immediately act to address the energy crisis or risk the kind of fundamental economic shutdown that the bloc would struggle to recover from.“A few weeks like this and the European economy will just go into a full …
Read More »Gold price pressured at $1707, but eying $1,730
Gold prices are down on the day after heavily falling from a high of $1,728.23 to a low of $1,704.00. The precious metal is trading around $1,707.33 at the time of writing and lower by 0.5%. The US dollar index and shorter-dated US Treasury yields rose on Thursday following Fed …
Read More »Oil prices fall as pandemic restrictions extend in China
Oil prices fell on Thursday, after recording sharp losses in the previous session, as the extension of China’s closure measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus exacerbated fears of a slowdown in global economic activity, which is hurting demand. Brent crude futures lost 40 cents, or 0.4 percent, to …
Read More »Gold falls on anticipation of Powell’s speech and ECB rate decision
Gold prices fell on Thursday, while investors awaited comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the European Central’s decision on the upcoming interest rate later Thursday. And gold fell in spot transactions 0.1 percent to $ 1716.59 an ounce (an ounce) by 0609 GMT, after rising by about one …
Read More »Where are natural gas prices heading?
Factors that could impact the volume of LNG exports in the next months include the planned outage at Cove Point in October and Freeport LNG resuming partial operations by mid-November. EIA forecasts total US liquefied natural gas exports to account for 12.3 Bcf/d in 2023.Spot prices at the US benchmark …
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