Metals News
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A guest on the popular show Antiques Roadshow brought with her an amethyst necklace, a family heirloom, that supposedly belonged to a British socialite and the mistress of King Edward VII. If the guest was looking for a nice pay day, her hopes were quickly dashed when jewelry expert Sarah Churgin appraised the piece at just '$3,000 to $4,000' after ...
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A couple who found a hoard of ancient coins under their floor during a home renovation have sold the lot for $115,000 at auction. Brits Becky and Robert Fooks were doing up their farmhouse kitchen when they accidentally hit pay dirt – an urn filled with 400-year-old gold and silver coins, which fetched £60,000 (about $AU115,000) under the hammer. They ...
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The past century has been a wild ride for investors. This article explores ten of the most dramatic plunges the stock market has witnessed, from the tech-fueled Dot-com bubble burst to the global economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each crash offers a unique story, exposing vulnerabilities in the system and highlighting the interconnectedness of ...
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China’s factory activity remained in expansion territory for the second consecutive month in April, in the latest sign that the economic recovery is picking up pace. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) – a survey of sentiment among factory owners – stood at 50.4 in April compared to 50.8 in March, the National Bureau of Statistics ...
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In the first quarter of 2024, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the fourth quarter of 2023, GDP had declined by 0.1% in the euro area and had remained stable in the ...
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Some of last week’s headlines will say that gold has had a “correction” to varying degrees. Technically, a “correction” means a 10% price drop, although most people don’t use the word in a technical sense. I wonder, though, whether it’s correct to say that it has been a tepid week of gold price fluctuations considering the historic price level of $2,330… ...
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To Robin Brooks, the former chief currency strategist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Japan’s massive government debt — for now at least — is likely to doom any efforts to prop up ...
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Asia-Pacific markets were largely set to extend gains on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street moves, with investors awaiting China manufacturing purchasing managers’ index for April. ...
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As the Fed's policy-setting committee gathers for a two-day meeting Tuesday, it is being forced to wrestle with an uncomfortable question: Is its interest rate policy really doing ...
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China’s factory activity remained in expansion territory for the second consecutive month in April, in the latest sign that the economic recovery is picking up pace. The official ...
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The improvement in Chinese manufacturing sector conditions extended into the start of the second quarter, according to the latest PMI data. Greater new work inflows, including ...
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.4% in April 2024, stable compared to March according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European ...
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Gold continues to be very noisy as the month of April was very choppy. This does make a certain amount of sense considering that gold shot straight up in the air over the course of the last couple of months, and therefore I think we needed to spend a little bit of time breathing and perhaps even soaking in some of the momentum.Because of this, I think the ...
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Markets are connected, and what happens in stocks and currencies is likely to impact gold as well. Today’s analysis is going to be short as very little happened on the markets on Friday and in today’s pre-market trading, and whatever happened was pretty much in tune with what I wrote previously. Gold didn’t do much overall – it moved slightly higher on ...
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FNG has learned via regulatory filings that FCA licensed Retail FX, CFDs and spread betting broker Acetop Financial Limited (website: acetop.uk) saw a significant increase in activity in 2023, led by active Spot Gold trading among its clients. Revenues at Acetop increased by more than 300% in 2023, coming in at £757K versus just £181K in 2022. We’d note, ...