WTI crude oil lost about 0.83% on Tuesday. The market’s sentiment shifted sour, augmenting appetite for safe-haven assets to the detriment of commodity prices as the US crude oil slides for the first time in this week. WTI traded at $95.51 per barrel following the report after settling down $1.72 …
Read More »Gold turns below $1,720 ahead of Fed’s policy decision
The Gold Index is displaying back and forth moves in a narrow range of $1,713.92-1,721.97 as investors are awaiting the announcement of the fourth consecutive interest rate decision by the Fed. The precious metal has displayed a complete volatility contraction, which indicates that now the monetary policy announcement is the …
Read More »Status of grain exports from Ukraine still doubtful
Russia and Ukraine signed two separate agreements in Istanbul to resume exports of wheat and other grain from Ukrainian ports. The said agreements were still doubtful just one day after they were signed because of a Russian missile attack on the port of Odessa.Wheat price on fell by almost 6% …
Read More »Kremlin: Hope to install Nord Stream 1 turbine “sooner rather than later”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the gas turbine in Russia’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline had not yet arrived from Canada, where it is undergoing maintenance. Still, Moscow hopes it will be installed “sooner rather than later”. The European Union has repeatedly accused Russia of resorting to energy …
Read More »Gold rises slightly in narrow-range transactions ahead of Fed
Gold prices rose somewhat on Tuesday and swung within a narrow range during the day as the dollar weakened, while investors avoided big bets ahead of an expected hike in US interest rates. And the gold price rose 0.5 percent in spot transactions to $1,726.83 an ounce by 0725 GMT. …
Read More »Oil continues to rise for a second day amid fears of tight supplies
Oil prices rose on Tuesday for the second day in a row amid growing fears of tight European supplies after Russia, a major oil and natural gas supplier to the region, cut gas supplies through a major pipeline. Brent crude futures for September rose $1.51, or 1.4 percent, to $106.66 …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – Monday, July 25
This week’s trading started amid lower risk appetite although the better performance of US equities has weighed on the US dollar since the European session. The lack of news was perfectly good news for high-yielding currencies. The GBP/USD pair trades at around 1.2050, while AUD/USD nears July high at 0.6977. …
Read More »WTI advances towards $96.50 ahead of API-report, Fed meeting
WTI crude oil snaps three successive days of losses and rises despite US data showing the US economy is slowing down.A US recession-linked concerns and subsequent China’s Covid-19 lockdowns do sharply weigh on WTI price direction. WTI crude rose 1.40% on Monday as US equities gain, portraying an upbeat market …
Read More »OPEC+ 2.84 Million Bpd Below Oil Output Target
The OPEC+ group had a huge deficit of 2.84 million barrels per day (bpd) in June between actual output and the target oil output level as part of the deal, so, the gap between nameplate output per the agreement and actual output continues to widen. OPEC+ pumped more than 2.5 …
Read More »Gold drops toward $1710 as market sentiment deteriorates
Gold turns negative as market sentiment deteriorates. The Gold Index slides below $1720, rejected again from above $1730. Meanwhile, the US Dollar recovers momentum, erases losses.Gold prices failed to hold to gains on Monday, hit after Gazprom’s announcement that will slow flows on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, triggering a …
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