WTI trades a few dollars lower on Friday but is within recent intra-day ranges in the low $100s. Amid a lack of fresh developments, oil traders are mulling various oil market-relevant themes.Crude oil prices continue to trade in uneventful fashion, with front-month WTI futures stuck within their intra-day ranges of …
Read More »Oil is heading for a weekly decline of about 4% as demand concerns persist
Oil prices fell on Friday, heading towards a weekly decline of about four percent, affected by expectations of higher interest rates, weak global growth and restrictions to combat Covid-19 in China, which negatively affected demand, although the European Union is considering banning Russian oil imports. By 0130 GMT, Brent crude …
Read More »Gold Sets To Recover On Powell’s Comments, Hopes
The odds of a 50 bps interest rate hike have elevated after Fed Powell’s comments at the IMF meeting. Higher inflation pressures in a very tight labor market are compelling for squeezing the liquidity. A double bottom formation has raised expectations of a reversal in the gold prices.Gold price has …
Read More »Piper Raises natural gas price forecast
Piper Sandler commodity analysts updated the bank’s US natural gas forecast Thursday, flagging increased exports, increased demand and “pervasive capital discipline” all leading to higher medium-term natural gas prices (UNG).Analysts now see Henry Hub (NG1:COM) averaging $6.50 in 2022, $5.50 in 2023 and $4.00 long-term; compared to prior estimates of …
Read More »German exports to Russia fell 57.5% in March
Germany’s exports to Russia fell 57.5 percent to 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in March due to sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, the German Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday. This pushed Russia down from the fifth largest market for Germany outside the European Union in …
Read More »WTI Falls 1.3% Hours Before Asian Session
WTI pressured on Wednesday while futures rose marginally. Political standoff in Libya has highlighted the fragility of oil supply. Crude oil is down in late North American trade by some 1.28% and has fallen from a high of $103.92 to a low of $99.93 into the close. It posted a …
Read More »Fed’s Beige Book: Hot inflation, supply difficulties weigh on US firms
Supply chain bottlenecks, the highest inflation in decades and a persisting labour shortage are weighing on businesses across the country, according to a new Federal Reserve report. In its region-by-region roundup of anecdotal information known as the Beige Book, the Fed reported that while economic activity increased at a “moderate …
Read More »Gold firming at daily support
The Gold Price fall was capped by falling US Treasury yields amidst a risk-on market mood. US Treasury yields dropped from three-year highs and undermined the US dollar. Bulls start to engage at the start of a demand area, eyes on daily M-formation.Gold Price is higher in the US session, …
Read More »Gold at its lowest level in two weeks, affected by US bond yields and the dollar
On Wednesday, gold prices fell to their lowest in nearly two weeks, weighed down by persistently higher US bond yields and the dollar. By 0741 GMT, spot gold fell 0.4 percent to $ 1941.40 an ounce, and US gold futures fell 0.7 percent to $ 1944.80. On Tuesday, the price …
Read More »US natural gas contracts jump 7%
The prices of US natural gas contracts rose to their highest level in nearly 14 years when settling Monday’s trading, in conjunction with a drop in temperatures in the United States and the continued weakness of global supplies due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Expectations have increased about the high demand …
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