Commodities

WTI hit fresh three-month highs near $121 earlier in the session, but has since pulled back to the $118s. Oil prices were initially boosted on Monday amid a Saudi hike, China lockdown easing and following last week’s OPEC+ meeting.Having at one point come within a whisker of hitting the $121 …

Gold prices rose slightly on Monday, supported by a slight decline in the US dollar and US Treasury bond yields, but the outlook for the yellow metal price remained fragile in the face of interest rate hike prospects from major central banks. Spot gold rose 0.2 percent to $1,854.83 an …

Oil futures rose above $120 on Monday after Saudi Arabia raised crude selling prices in July, indicating a tight supply even as the OPEC+ producers agreed to accelerate production increases over the next two months. Brent crude rose 68 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $ 120.40 a barrel by 0640 …

Around the end of 2021, nobody was talking about a US recession, but now, the dreaded ‘recession’ word is on everybody’s lips. During the week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk voiced this fear using the “super bad feeling” phrase about the US economy. “Lots of luck on his trip to the …

US energy companies have kept oil and natural gas rigs unchanged this week as crude output slowly recovers from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic with many producers still more focused on returning money to shareholders.The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, were flat at …

The WTI crude is holding near Thursday’s highs in the $117 territory despite risk-off Wall Street flows; post-strong US jobs data.Front-month WTI futures held near Thursday’s highs on Friday, despite US equity markets trading with a downside bias on Fed tightening fears following robust US labour market data. WTI retreated …

Gold prices immediately retreated after the latest official US labour market data, which revealed 390K jobs were added in May, more than the expected 325K. Markets witness a hawkish reaction to the data, with US Treasury yields and the US dollar rising. The yield on the US 10-year note was …

Oil prices fell on Friday after the OPEC+ group decided to increase production targets a little more than planned, but global supply shortages and increased demand as China eased Covid-19 restrictions curbed losses. The OPEC + bloc, which includes the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and independent oil …

Oil prices were little changed on Friday and held on to the gains they made in the previous session on doubts that oil producers in the OPEC+ cartel could increase crude production enough to offset Russian oil supply shortfalls. the price of West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose one cent …

Gold prices hit a one-month high on Friday with the dollar’s decline, which put the precious metal on track to record its third consecutive weekly increase. By 0214 GMT, spot gold rose 0.2 percent to $1,871.28 an ounce, its highest level since May 9. Gold prices are up about 1 …