The Gold Index has suspended two successive days of gains and retreats towards the 20-DMA after bouncing off the 200-DMA amidst a sour market sentiment during the current trading session as US traders come back from a three-day weekend with positive attitude towards the US dollar and US Treasury yields. …
Read More »Gold is about to post a monthly loss
Gold prices fell on Tuesday after rising dollar and US bond yields offset support for the precious metal on rising inflation fears and appeared to be on track for a second consecutive monthly decline. Spot gold fell 0.4 percent to $1,848.60 an ounce at 1025 GMT, and was down 2.5 …
Read More »EU diplomat: Bloc agrees to ban 90% of Russian oil imports by end of 2022
EU leaders are meeting for an off-schedule summit with some progress regarding Russian sanctions. The EU Council President Charles Michel said the officials have agreed to ban the export of Russian oil to the EU. According to Michel, the EU ”agrees to de-swifting the largest Russian bank Sberbank, banning 3 …
Read More »Are Knots Getting Tighter Around Russian Economy?
If the Russian ruble is, against any practical scale, an indicator of the nation’s economic conditions, one can easily conclude that an initial storm has been caused by the West’s sanctions. When the West reacted to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine with a bulk of financial and trade sanctions, the …
Read More »Gold steadies above $1850
Gold begins the trading week with relatively positive performance, up by 0.20%. the Holiday in the US is expected to keep the precious metal’s prices within a tighter range amid a busy US economic calendar week.An absent US economic docket on Monday keeps gold traders leaning on market sentiment and …
Read More »Gold prices rise in volatile trading with the decline of the dollar
Gold prices rose in choppy trading on Monday, boosted by a weaker dollar, although some investors’ shift to riskier assets in Asia limited those gains. And gold rose in spot transactions 0.2 percent to $ 1856.86 an ounce at 0152 GMT. US futures rose 0.1 percent to $1,859.40 an ounce. …
Read More »Financial Markets’ Weekly Recap, 23 – 27 May
Wall Street closed sharply higher on Friday, as signs of inflation peaking and then data on consumer spending increased investor optimism that the Federal Reserve would be able to tighten monetary policy without pushing the economy into recession. All three major US stock indexes halted their longest streak of weekly …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – 27 May
The EUR/USD reached a fresh four-week high, around 1.0765, but in the last hour, retreated 30 pips, as the New York session come to close, on a positive trading session, courtesy of positive US data. At 1.0735, the EUR/USD is set to record weekly gains of 1.66% amidst a week …
Read More »US benefits depend on Pacific trade pact
While the United States did not lose the trade war, it has not won it either. China’s economy has more keenly felt the brunt of increased tariffs, but if the goal was to force China to change its unfair trade practices, that effort has fallen flat.The United States has long …
Read More »Gold steadies around $1850s, hopeful for a catalyst to $1900
Gold price climbs during the New York session but is still unable to challenge the weekly highs and remains glued to the 20-day moving average (DMA) near the $1848.48 area. Gold seems to aim at finishing the week’s trading with some 0.37% gains. US Core PCE eases from 5.1% YoY, …
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