Commodities

WTI crude oil has been under severe selling pressure in recent trade. Oil has settled under $70.00, marking a more than 11% decline on the day, its worst session since last year when future contracts swung deeply into negative territory in April 2020.The oil market’s implosion comes on a day …

European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Friday that the new Covid-19 variant is worrying.“We have to be patient even if markets are volatile, my personal opinion that policy will remain accommodative”, de Guindos added.On the PEPP, he said, it will end in its expected size at …

Gold rose Friday morning in Asia, poised for its worst week in five months on growing bets. The US Federal Reserve will begin to taper and raise interest rates faster than expected to stem rising inflation. Gold futures rose 0.76% to $1,797.80. The yellow metal fell more than 2.8% during …

Brent crude fell by about 4 percent, to less than $ 80 a barrel on Friday, after the discovery of a new strain of the Coronavirus worried investors, which reinforced fears of a ballooning global oversupply in the first quarter of next year after coordinated withdrawals from crude reserves of …

US markets were closed due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Markets will work shortened hours on Friday, and muted trading is expected to continue. Economic DataANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence was up 1.4pts to 107.4 on the second weekend of November. Consumer Confidence is below the 2021 weekly average of 108.2. However, …

Oil prices varied during trading today, Thursday, in the Asian trading session, as investors awaited the reaction of “OPEC” to the release of crude oil from emergency reserves by major consuming countries to calm the market. Brent crude futures rose 0.07% to $82.31 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude …

Gold prices rose on Thursday as the dollar weakened, but hawkish comments from US Federal Reserve policymakers limited the metal’s allure and kept it well below the important $1,800 level. Spot gold rose 0.2 percent to $1,791.76 an ounce by 0501 GMT, after falling to its lowest level since November …

The minutes of the 3 November FOMC meeting, released on Wednesday, said that various participants noted that the Fed should be prepared to adjust the pace of the QE taper and raise rates sooner than currently anticipated should inflation continue to run hot. The minutes carried a consolidated language to …

Wall Street shares reversed earlier losses in choppy trading on Wednesday and U.S. Treasury yields hovered near highs for the year after data suggested the U.S. job market and consumer spending continued to improve.Oil prices were largely steady as investors questioned the effectiveness of a U.S.-led release of oil from …

U.S. crude oil stocks rose last week but gasoline and distillate stocks fell even as refining activity increased on strong overall fuel demand, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.Crude inventories rose by 1 million barrels in the week to Nov. 19, compared with analysts’ expectations for a decrease of …