Commodities

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gold prices fell on Monday, July 25 after the dollar’s rise and expectations of a US Federal Reserve interest rate hike this week dampened gold demand. The price of gold fell 0.2% to $ 1724.50 an ounce as of 04:23 GMT, after rising to its highest level in more than …

The US dollar fell over the past week by more than 1.5%, and closed at 106.410 last Friday. The US Treasury yields declined, but the gap remains large between the two-year yields of 2.9721 and the 10-year yields of 2.754. Following the conclusion of its two-day policy review meeting on …

The US yield curve is still inverted, this has continued for 14 successive days. Fragile market sentiment prevailed on Friday, as equities are seesawing, due to US S&P Global PMI data, flashing a contraction in the services sector and its Composite index, while traders seek safety towards US Treasuries, with …

US crude oil prices stabilized below $95 per barrel for the first time since April in choppy trading circumstances on Friday after the European Union announced it would allow Russian companies to ship oil to third countries under an adjustment of sanctions agreed by member states this week. Under the …

Gold Price is set to finish the week up by almost 1%, snapping five weeks of losses. Investors’ recession-linked fears were renewed on weaker than expected EU and US PMI data.The US 2s-10s yield curve inversion extended for 14 straight days. Gold Price rises for the second consecutive day after …

Gold prices rose on Friday, supported by lower US Treasury yields, although the prospects of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike and a stronger dollar limited gains. By 1215 GMT, spot gold rose 0.5% to $1,727.09 an ounce. Prices fell to a more than one-year low of $1,680.25 on Thursday …