Metals News
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China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday (Jun 2), overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere. The landing elevates China's space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries including the United States are hoping to exploit ...
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A Tesla shareholder filed a lawsuit on Thursday (May 30) accusing CEO Elon Musk of insider trading when he sold over US$7.5 billion of shares of the electric car maker in late 2022, saying the billionaire entrepreneur sold the shares before potentially disappointing production and delivery numbers were made public. Shareholder Michael Perry, in the lawsuit ...
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Inflation and wages are kind of a chicken or egg issue. Do higher prices cause higher wages or do higher wages cause higher prices? I suppose it’s probably a little of both. There is an obvious relationship when you look at the data. Here’s a look at year-over-year wage growth versus trailing twelve-month inflation going back to 1965: chart Wages grow ...
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A technical issue at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday caused the A-class shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to appear to be down nearly 100%. Trading was halted in those shares, as well as in Barrick Gold and Nuscale Power , which had also seen dramatic falls. The NYSE said in a 10:11 a.m. ET update that it was investigating a technical ...
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Canada’s manufacturing sector experienced another subdued performance in May. Output and new orders both continued to fall, and at faster rates, whilst firms cut their buying activity given sufficient stock at their plants. More positive however was a rise in employment and a strengthening of confidence to a ten-month high. Prices data showed another solid ...
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Silver price is near the $30 level again; PMI data in focus. The silver futures contract lost 3.47% on Friday, May 31, as it extended its Thursday’s sell-off of 2.6%, retracing almost all of its Monday’s-Tuesday’s rally. On previous week, silver sold off to around the $30 level. It reacted negatively to the stock market’s pullback, along with declining gold ...
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The pandemic housing boom means Americans have more home equity than ever. Households have added roughly $12 trillion in home equity since the end of 2019: chart To put this ...
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China has surpassed the United States to become Korea's largest export destination, thanks to increased exports of IT products such as semiconductors and displays, the Ministry of ...
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Australian central bank Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser said the “first and predominant challenge” for policymakers is to bring down inflation, according to an interview with the ...
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A technical issue at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday caused the A-class shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to appear to be down nearly 100%. Trading was halted in ...
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Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in May for the second consecutive month and the 18th time in the last 19 months, say the nation's supply executives in the ...
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The UK manufacturing sector returned to growth in May, as output expanded at the quickest pace in over two years on the back of improved intakes of new work. The outlook also ...
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Silver price is near the $30 level again; PMI data in focus. The silver futures contract lost 3.47% on Friday, May 31, as it extended its Thursday’s sell-off of 2.6%, retracing almost all of its Monday’s-Tuesday’s rally. On previous week, silver sold off to around the $30 level. It reacted negatively to the stock market’s pullback, along with declining gold ...
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Asian share markets were buoyant on Monday on refreshed hopes that central banks will be better placed to cut rates this year. While a key US inflation report on Friday saw the headline figures come in as expected, real spending was -0.1% lower and a print of core PCE of 0.2% m/m was its slowest rate of inflation since November. I wouldn't go as far as to ...
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