Market Update

Oil prices rose about 1 percent on Monday, extending gains from the previous session, as China eased some of its strict protocols to combat the Coronavirus, raising hopes of a recovery in economic activity and demand in the world’s largest importer of crude. Brent crude and US West Texas Intermediate …

Japan’s Nikkei closed lower on Monday after hitting a two-month high in the previous session, as investors booked profits and market heavyweight SoftBank Group fell after its investment arm Vision Fund reported another big quarterly loss. The Nikkei index closed down 1.06 percent to 27,963.47 points, while the broader Topix …

Gold prices fell on Monday from a three-month high reached in the previous session as the dollar and US bond yields rose after a senior Federal Reserve official warned that the board was not easing its fight against inflation. And the price of gold in spot transactions 0.5 percent to …

Britain’s economy contracted in the three months to September at the start of what is likely to be a prolonged recession, adding to the challenges facing Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as he prepares to raise taxes and cut spending. Official data on Friday showed Britain’s economy shrank 0.2 percent in the …

Global stocks rallied on Friday for a second day on hopes cooler US inflation would lead to less aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, an outlook that pushed the dollar to its biggest two-day drop in 13 years.Economic DataMSCI’s all-country world index rose 1.91%, lifting it to its …

On Wall Street, US stocks surged, Friday, to add to the prior US session’s biggest daily percentage gains for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq in more than 2-1/2 years after year-over-year inflation in October fell below 8% for the first time in eight months.The S&P 500 closed out its best …

The price action of gold, next week, will look for direction mostly from the US dollar which attains a special standing as the key driver for gold’s ability to continue to this week’s rally.Gold is quickly becoming the asset to watch amid hot inflation as well as when inflation starts …

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she is not reading too much into October’s inflation report, which showed price pressures narrowing faster than expected and sent markets soaring.While the consumer price index report, which showed annual inflation slowed to 7.7%, was good news, it might not mean that inflation is …

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that she will meet China’s central bank governor Yi Gang on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali to discuss global economic conditions and China’s property market situation. The expected meeting will coincide with President Joe Biden’s planned Monday meeting with …

News about FTX, Alameda Research and affiliated companies filing for bankruptcy, is putting additional pressure on crypto assets. Bitcoin is trading at $16700 at the time of writing, down -$843 or 4.75% versus the previous closing price at $17551on a bullish spark ignited early Friday. The cryptocurrency market will likely …