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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All that glitters isn’t gold. Silver also has quite a shine lately. While gold has gotten the headlines, silver has had a solid bull run over the last several months. In fact, the white metal has outperformed gold in this gold bull market. Last week, silver charted an 11 percent gain, cracking $30 an ounce for the first time in over a decade. And since its ...
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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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It is a great pleasure to be here at this event, hosted by the LSE’s Financial Markets Group in honour of Charles Goodhart. This evening, I am going to talk about central bank balance sheets and in particular the Bank of England’s balance sheet. An esoteric topic perhaps, but an important one, now more than ever. And it is a topic on which Charles has written extensively. Charles worked at the Bank for nearly two decades, of course, before his distinguished career as a professor here at the London School of Economics. His article “The importance of money”, published in the Bank’s Quarterly Bulletin in 1970 and available on the Bank of England’s website, was a milestone in the study of the predictability of money demand.footnote[1] At the time this was an important issue in debates over monetary control mechanisms and the relative merits of monetary ‘rules’ and policy ‘discretion’, a debate he masterfully summarised in his 1975 book on “Money, Information and Uncertainty”. In this and later work, Charles brought his deep understanding of the nature of financial markets, of banking and of monetary assets to bear, the historical perspective always present. In his 1988 book “On the Evolution of Central Banks” he discussed “how the role and functions of Central Banks have evolved naturally over time, and play a necessary part within the banking system”. Fast forward two more decades – acr post: BoE’s Bailey: We Think the Central Bank Balance Sheet Will Remain Larger Than Before the Financial Crisis Though Not as Large as Today post: BANK OF ENGLAND'S BAILEY: A RANGE OF 345-490 BLN STG IS NOT A BAD STARTING POINT FOR CENTRAL BANK BALANCE SHEET || BANK OF ENGLAND'S BAILEY: REPO PORTFOLIO CAN OFFER A RELIABLE AND FLEXIBLE SOURCE OF RESERVES AS LARGELY ADDITIONAL HIGH-QUALITY LIQUID ASSETS TO THE SYSTEM
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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 ...