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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The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 6.4% annual gain in February, up from a 6.0% rise in the previous month. The 10- City Composite showed an increase of 8.0%, up from a 7.4% increase in the previous month. The 20- City Composite posted a year-over-year increase of 7.3%, up ...
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The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) presents the Timely Estimate of the Quarterly Gross Domestic Product (EOPIBT). This offers, in the short term, a vision of the evolution of the country's economic activities, 30 days after the end of the reference quarter. In the first quarter of 2024 and with seasonally adjusted figures, the EOPIBT ...
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The first quarter of 2024 has surprised on the economic front. Instead of the anticipated slowdown, coupled with US outperformance ending, what we saw was global economic activity ...
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We have raised our Asia-Pacific growth forecast for 2024 to 4.5%. IMF Director of Asia & Pacific Krishna Srinivasan presents our latest Regional Economic Outlook.
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We have seen a big jump in the US 1Q employment cost index of 1.2% quarter-on-quarter versus 0.9% in 4Q23, well above the 1% expected and above every single individual forecast in ...
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Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1.2 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending in March 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported ...
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The latest Chicago Purchasing Manager's Index (Chicago Business Barometer) fell to 37.9 in April from 41.4 in March. This is the fifth straight monthly decline and the lowest ...
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 0.2% in February, following a 0.5% gain in January. Services-producing industries (+0.2%) led the growth for a second month in a row, ...
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Gold (XAUUSD) is back below key support at 2,319 after failing to close above 2,350, which would have confirmed the resumption of an uptrend. If Gold breaks below 2,291, it is likely to face a sell-off down to between 2,260 and 2,255, and possibly even lower to around 2,207, which is the 0.786 retracement of the leg up since March. The strength indicator ...
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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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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, ...