Commodities

Gold prices scaled a one-month high on Tuesday as recent signs of rising inflation reinforced demand, although the safe-haven metal gave up some early gains due to a stronger US dollar.Gold dropped slightly by 0.2% to $1,807.21 an ounce by 2:40 p.m. ET, after hitting an intraday high of $1,819.85 …

A quick look at central bank and government policies in the wake of the pandemic will easily help conclude that there is a highly bullish trend for commodity prices. In early 2020, when the pandemic caused selling in markets across all asset classes, there was a warning that quantitative easing, …

Factory activity in the central Atlantic region of the US gained momentum in December compared with the previous month, according to a survey compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond released Tuesday.The Fifth District Survey of Manufacturing Activity’s composite index increased to 16 in December from 12 in November, …

WTI trades above USD 76.00, supported as Omicron pessimism is in focus during Tuesday’s US session and amid supply outages.WTI only trades about USD 2.0 below pre-Omicron levels above USD 78.00, suggesting fears of economic disruption have generally been assessed.Oil prices have trimmed earlier gains with front-month WTI futures currently …

US natural gas futures traded around $3.9 per million British thermal units in the third week of December, after hitting US natural gas futures extended gains, after rising at the highest pace in two months, supported by snowstorms in parts of the country. And futures contracts for January delivery rose …

Gold prices retreated from a one-week high in weak trading on Tuesday after easing concerns about the mutated Omicron strain of the coronavirus and strong US retail sales data boosted risk appetite. And the price of gold in spot transactions 0.1 percent to 1809.68 dollars an ounce (an ounce) by …

Oil prices continued to rise on Tuesday, approaching the highest level in a month reached in the previous session, thanks to expectations that the mutant Omicron of the Coronavirus will have only a limited impact on global demand. Brent crude rose 14 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $ 78.74 a …

Investors and traders quietly resumed activity immediately after turning from a long weekend, with a thrust of optimism as reports suggest that the Omicron variant is much less serious. Before the end of the trading session, news came from France about the reintroduction of restrictions on Omicron Covid-19 spike, the …

As rising inflation threatens his presidency, US President Joe Biden is turning to the federal antitrust authorities to try to tame hot price increases that his administration believes are partly driven by a lack of corporate competition.Biden pushed the Agriculture Department to begin investigation on large meatpackers that control a …

Before 2000, most traditional institutional investment portfolios did not allocate to commodities and traditionally balanced portfolios of stocks (60 percent) and bonds (40 percent) were the prevalent norm with no alternatives across the board. Given that diversification is a significant catalyst for investment, portfolios started greater diversification into alternatives and …