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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In the first quarter of 2024 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (Gdp) increased by 0.3 per cent with respect to the previous quarter and by 0.6 per cent over the same quarter of previous year. The first quarter of 2024 has had 3 working days more than the previous quarter and the same number compared to ...
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The gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the fourth quarter of 2023 - after adjustment for price, seasonal and calendar variations - after falling at the end of 2023 (by a revised -0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared with the previous quarter; previously: -0.3%). The Federal Statistical Office ...
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There's a barely concealed hint of danger in the Arizona desert that newcomers ignore at their peril. An arid country, with soaring temperatures in summer and bitterly cold winds in winter, it is seared into the American psyche as the notorious scene of the 1881 shootout at the OK Corral, when Wyatt Earp survived a gunfight that left three men dead. In more ...
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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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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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Gold prices have bounced back in the first half of Monday’s session after last week’s drop, when investors finally reacted to the recent strength of the US dollar and reduced expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts on the back of more evidence of sticky inflation. In truth, traders were looking for any excuse to book some profit. But after the recent ...
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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, ...