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Official customs data showed that Chinese exports to Russia rose significantly in July after a 4-month decline. Reuters calculations based on customs data indicated that exports to sanctioned Russia rose 22.2 percent in July from the previous year in dollar terms, reversing a 17 percent decline in June, the first …

Gold price maintained defensive stance late during the New York session after an early US employment report showed that the Fed is right about pushing back on recession chatter. Gold is trading at $1773.33, down by almost 1%.Before Wall Street opened, the US Bureau of Labour Statistics revealed that the …

The dollar fell against most of its major rival currencies, ending the trading day near its latest lows. This constitutes a sign of additional declines ahead in the near term.AUD/USD advanced and hovers around 0.6970, helped by gold, as the bright metal reached fresh one-month highs in the $1,790 price …

US indexes surged, capping the safe-haven dollar’s demand, partially helped by strong Q2 corporate earnings reports and encouraging local data.Commodity-linked currencies, on the other hand, benefited from Wall Street’s strength. AUD/USD trades around 0.6950 while USD/CAD is marginally lower at 1.2840.The EUR/USD pair trades around 1.0160, as tepid European data …

Fed’s Neel Kashkari has said that the Fed moved too slowly in 2021 in tackling high inflation. He also added that US wages are climbing and there is a risk that this goes into a wage-driven inflation story and that the US central bank is laser-focused on getting inflation down.Kashkari …

“We have a lot in the pipeline in tightening but yet to see that in data showing a slowing of the economy,” San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said on Wednesday. Daly said that the Fed is nowhere near finished with the inflation fight. Also, James Bullard began yesterday by …

The business activity in the US service sector expanded at a more robust pace in July than in June with the ISM Services PMI rising to 56.7 from 55.3. This reading came in better than the market expectation of 53.5.Further details of the publication revealed that the Prices Paid Index …

Gold gave up early gains to trade flat on Tuesday as the US dollar rose, lower Treasury yields and growing recession fears kept the yellow metal near its four-week peak. And gold settled in spot transactions at about 1771.29 dollars an ounce by 0843 GMT, after hitting its highest level …

The White House said on Monday it expected China in coming days to escalate its response to a potential visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan and said the United States would not be intimidated. The US dollar edged lower on Monday, although the slide pared …

Gold prices advance on falling US Treasury yields and US dollar weakness. US equities rise, despite cooling manufacturing data, illustrating Fed actions are being felt. At the time of writing, gold is trading at $1770.5. Fed policymakers pushed back against deacceleration of interest rate hikes, according to the market’s reaction. …