Metals News
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Sylvester Stallone is about to score a massive payday after putting his watch collection up for auction, because one of the timepieces could fetch a literal king's ransom. As you might have heard, the 'Rocky' star is selling 11 watches from his personal collection through Sotheby's next month ... and one crown jewel, in particular, has a watch expert going ...
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Libyan authorities have arrested several customs officials for attempting to traffic abroad about 26 tons of gold worth almost 1.8 billion euros ($1.9 billion), prosecutors said. The Libyan prosecutor’s office did not detail the suspected origin of the massive amount of precious metal, greater than the national gold reserves of many countries. Authorities ...
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There are certain names that echo down from the history of finance and economics. Adam Smith is one. Milton Friedman is another. So does the British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes’ was, and famously remains, an advocate of government deficit spending in a recession. It’s hard to imagine now how radical this position was in the decade before the ...
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Inflation likely stayed higher than Fed officials would like in April if early forecasts are correct. The cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index likely rose 3.4% over the year in April, down from a 3.5% increase in March according to a survey of forecasters by Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, ahead of the official figures due ...
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US consumers could be reaching their breaking point. After dealing with elevated inflation and the highest interest rates in decades, they’re starting to rein in their spending. Last month, retail sales were unchanged from March, when spending increased by a downwardly revised 0.6%, the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday. April spending missed the ...
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post: Fed’s Kashkari: Fed is Focused on Underlying Demand in the Economy to Get Inflation Down Kashkari: Americans Have Been Spending More Than I Would Have Expected post: <=USD>:*FED'S KASHKARI: NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ACTUAL INFLATION post: KASHKARI: HOUSING MKT HAS BEEN MUCH MORE RESILIENT THAN I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED KASHKARI: VERY FOCUSED ON HOUSING AREA RIGHT NOW post: FED'S KASHKARI: THE BIG QUESTION MARK NOW IS, HOW RESTRICTIVE IS POLICY RIGHT NOW? post: KASHKARI: WE PROBABLY NEED TO SIT HERE FOR A WHILE LONGER TO FIGURE OUT WHERE INFLATION IS HEADED
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Forecasters expect a monthly report on US consumer prices to show inflationary pressures moderated in April after three straight worse-than-anticipated readings to start the year. ...
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Inflation likely stayed higher than Fed officials would like in April if early forecasts are correct. The cost of living as measured by the Consumer Price Index likely rose 3.4% ...
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The pace of price increases in the US showed signs of slowing last month, after a streak of higher-than-expected inflation data had stoked concerns about the world's largest ...
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.4 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...
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Retail sales were weaker than expected in April, furthering concerns about the state of the consumer amid sticky inflation and higher interest rates. Retail sales were flat in ...
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post: Fed’s Kashkari: Fed is Focused on Underlying Demand in the Economy to Get Inflation Down Kashkari: Americans Have Been Spending More Than I Would Have Expected post: <=USD>:*FED'S KASHKARI: NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ACTUAL INFLATION post: KASHKARI: HOUSING MKT HAS BEEN MUCH MORE RESILIENT THAN I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED KASHKARI: VERY FOCUSED ON HOUSING AREA RIGHT NOW post: FED'S KASHKARI: THE BIG QUESTION MARK NOW IS, HOW RESTRICTIVE IS POLICY RIGHT NOW? post: KASHKARI: WE PROBABLY NEED TO SIT HERE FOR A WHILE LONGER TO FIGURE OUT WHERE INFLATION IS HEADED
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Precious metals were looking strong even before the release of US CPI data, with gold holding in a bullish consolidation pattern following last week’s 2.5% gains and silver was already on the ascendency over the past couple of days. Both metals rallied once the CPI report was released, and after some profit-taking, recovered again to rise to fresh session ...
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Silver is outperforming Gold, so traders should be more confident of being long of Silver than of Gold. The best new trade opportunities which might set up today will be a long trade in Silver above the $28.80 area or in Gold from support at either $2355 or $2336. Stock markets are mostly bullish, which is probably good news for further rises in Gold and ...
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CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its April 2024 market statistics set a new average daily volume (ADV) record of 26.5 million contracts for the month, up 33% from April 2023, with double-digit growth across all asset classes. Additionally, interest rate, equity index, foreign exchange and options products set new April ...