Metals News
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British regulators on Wednesday dished out a combined £61.6 million ($79 million) in fines to U.S. investment bank Citi for failings in its trading systems and controls. The fines were issued by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority, whose investigation focused on the period between April 1, 2018, and May 31, 2022. Citi ...
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Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals on Wall Street, has died at the age of 87. His daughter Marianne Boesky told The New York Times on Monday that he died in his sleep, and his wife confirmed Boesky’s death to The Washington Post. No cause of death was ...
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Have we mentioned, that we love history? Probably more than just once. What we like on the academic studies which use longterm data is that they offer a bird-like view on the financial markets. The daily noise and ebbs and flows retreat into the background and macroeconomic and geopolitical trends emerge. This top-down analysis helps to design the asset ...
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UK inflation data due on Wednesday is expected to fall close to the government’s 2% target. Almost three years on from the start of price spikes, how has the economy changed? After a long, gruelling wait, markets and policy makers are expecting the UK's Office for National Statistics to deliver good news this week. For the first time since July 2021, ...
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Despite a rising price, Chinese gold demand remained robust in April. Strong investment demand more than made up for some weakness in the gold jewelry market. This continues a trend of gold moving from West to East. China ranks as the number one gold consumer in the world. The gold price was up about 5 percent in April in dollar terms. Gold charted a 3 ...
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Restrictive monetary policy has reduced capacity pressures in the New Zealand economy and lowered consumer price inflation. Annual consumer price inflation is expected to return to within the Committee’s 1 to 3 percent target range by the end of 2024. The welcome decline in inflation in part reflects lower inflation for goods and services imported into New ...
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UK inflation data due on Wednesday is expected to fall close to the government’s 2% target. Almost three years on from the start of price spikes, how has the economy changed? ...
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It’s now two years since the RBA first started to raise interest rates, resulting in the biggest tightening cycle since the late 1980s. Rates have gone much higher and stayed high ...
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Inflation in advanced economies remained essentially stable for the third straight month, at around 2.7% yoy. The stickiness of advanced economy inflation so far this year has ...
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Restrictive monetary policy has reduced capacity pressures in the New Zealand economy and lowered consumer price inflation. Annual consumer price inflation is expected to return ...
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The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) rose by 3.0% in the 12 months to April 2024, down from 3.8% in the 12 months to March. On a monthly ...
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Governor Orr speaking at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Monetary Policy Statement media conference. He is sounding a little less hawkish than the Statement. Q&A: • Will take time ...
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In reviewing the charts of the markets I often trade, it's evident that Heating Oil has decisively broken through the bottom of its wedge pattern, whereas Gold has established a classic "cup and handle" formation. From a technical perspective, these markets seem to be moving in opposite directions. chart The weekly chart, tracing back to the summer of ...
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Silver has been very noisy during the trading session here on Tuesday. Yet again we continue to see a lot of questions asked about the market in general. With that being said, I am a bit cautious at this point and I recognize that we might be getting a little overstretched and if that's going to be the case, I would anticipate some type of significant ...
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Gold prices hit an all-time high of $2,448.80/oz. on April 12, 2024, on the back of hotter-than-expected NFP, sticky inflation and rising geopolitical risk. These factors attracted inflow of funds as shown by increasing managed money long positions to around two-year high. Despite the pullback towards the end of the month as profit-taking and U.S. dollar ...