Metals News
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The meme stock influencer Kieth Gill, better known online as Roaring Kitty or DeepFucking Value, opined on YouTube—carefully—on Friday about GameStop’s future as a company. It was his first livestream since 2021. “Do I have to be careful about what I saw here?” the influencer asked, while displaying a background of GameStop’s stock price on Yahoo Finance. ...
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A lot has happened to the economy since COVID struck, and reading the economic tea leaves has become more difficult. Many of the gains for many Australians in 2020 and 2021 were artificial and didn’t last. The COVID Supplement temporarily doubled JobSeeker, for example. JobKeeper paid workers what their employers could not. As these measures have been ...
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US May non-farm payrolls came in at 272k versus the 180k consensus and higher than any of the 77 forecasts submitted to Bloomberg – the range was 120-258k. Private payrolls rose 229k versus the 165k consensus expectation. There were 15k of downward revisions to the past 2 months for headline payrolls, but this is still an undeniably strong set of numbers ...
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Two years ago, we started to raise key interest rates because inflation was too fast. Now the situation is better. Although prices continue to rise, especially in the service sector, overall inflation has slowed considerably. Next year, we will reach the goal of a two percent inflation rate. So we can now lower our policy rates. The most important of them ...
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China’s central bank didn’t buy any gold last month, ending a massive buying spree that had run for 18 months after the precious metal surged to a record high. Bullion held by the People’s Bank of China was unchanged at 72.80 million troy ounces in May, according to data released Friday. It’s the first time the country has opted not to add to its reserves ...
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Investors will be looking to May’s nonfarm payrolls report for more clarity on whether the Federal Reserve can ease up in its battle against inflation. Economists surveyed by Dow ...
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U.S. job growth likely maintained its moderate pace in May and wage gains were expected to hold steady, which would keep the Federal Reserve in wait-and-see mode on interest rates ...
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US May non-farm payrolls came in at 272k versus the 180k consensus and higher than any of the 77 forecasts submitted to Bloomberg – the range was 120-258k. Private payrolls rose ...
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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 272,000 in May, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. ...
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Employment was little changed in May (+27,000; +0.1%) and the employment rate fell 0.1 percentage points to 61.3%. The unemployment rate was 6.2% in May, up 0.1 percentage points ...
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In the first quarter of 2024, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to an estimate published by ...
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History rhymes - this time the rhyme in silver is very clear. Let’s start with the ratio. [Quoting my last Friday’s comments] And speaking of those “other markets”, let’s take a look at silver. Let’s start with the ratio between silver and gold as that’s where we recently saw something important and with clear implications for the price of white metal. ...
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The quotes of XAG/USD continue to move as part of the development of a strong bearish correction and a bullish channel. At the time of publication of the forecast, prices for Silver are 30.26. Moving averages indicate a bullish trend. Prices are again testing the area between the signal lines, which indicates pressure from buyers and a potential ...
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The Perth Mint sold 23,238 troy ounces (oz) of gold and 796,934 oz of silver in minted product form during May 2024. Opening the month around USD 2,300, the gold price in US dollar terms generally tracked flat before jumping higher by 1.5% off the back of weaker US jobs data which reinforced the potential for a Fed rate cut. On May 20 bullion hit a record ...