Metals News
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GameStop stock (GME) rose 47% on Thursday after a YouTube account believed to be tied to investor Keith Gill, also known as "Roaring Kitty" on social media, posted a livestream scheduled for Friday at noon ET. After the market close, Reddit user DeepF***ingValue, an account previously tied to Gill, posted a new screenshot purporting to show their position ...
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Space junk is posing a dangerous and expensive problem and has spawned a multi-billion dollar clean-up industry. Astroscale Holdings Inc., a Japanese space startup, is developing a spacecraft with robotic arms to deal with the growing problem of debris stuck in orbit by retrieving end-of-life satellites and broken parts from space. Adrian Wong reports.
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GDP, or gross domestic product, is all over financial news. It’s a measure of the value of all the goods and services in a country, but what does it actually mean? Well, it works as an indicator for how well or poorly a nation’s overall economy is faring. Do policies need adjusting? Are people gainfully employed? Watch to learn how GDP works and why it ...
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China's Trade Balance for May, in Chinese Yuan terms, came in at CNY586.40 billion, widening from the previous figure of CNY513.45 billion. Exports jumped by 11.2% YoY in May vs. 5.1% seen in April. The country’s imports rose 5.2% YoY in the same period vs. 12.2% recorded previously. In US Dollar terms, China’s trade surplus shrank in May. Trade Balance ...
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Jeremy Szafron interviews Jeffrey Christian, Managing Director of the CPM Group, for an in-depth analysis of the precious metals market. Christian explores the impacts of recent economic measures, including interest rate cuts by the ECB and the Bank of Canada, moderated labor costs in the U.S., and the current economic conditions on the pricing and ...
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Investors in the U.S. have started to seriously reassess their perspectives on Bitcoin (BTC) and gold after the quarterly report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) showed that at least 63 banks were on the brink of insolvency in the first quarter of 2024, up from 52 banks on the “Problem Bank List” during the third quarter of 2023. “The ...
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In late March, the US yield curve set the record for the longest period spent in an inversion, passing 1978’s 624-day milestone. Has the risk of recession also deepened?
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After yesterday's breathless Nvidia-led meltup, which saw the AI chipmaker surpass both $3 trillion in market cap and Apple's valuation, today's session was a boring affair by ...
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More than a half of surveyed Bank of Japan watchers forecast the central bank will decide to trim its government bond buying when authorities meet next week, with a growing number ...
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The Governing Council today decided to lower the three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points. Based on an updated assessment of the inflation outlook, the dynamics of underlying inflation and the strength of monetary policy transmission, it is now appropriate to moderate the degree of monetary policy restriction after nine months of holding rates steady. Since the Governing Council meeting in September 2023, inflation has fallen by more than 2.5 percentage points and the inflation outlook has improved markedly. Underlying inflation has also eased, reinforcing the signs that price pressures have weakened, and inflation expectations have declined at all horizons. Monetary policy has kept financing conditions restrictive. By dampening demand and keeping inflation expectations well anchored, this has made a major contribution to bringing inflation back down. post: #ECB CUTS DEPOSIT FACILITY RATE BY 25BPS TO 3.75%; EST. 3.75% - BBG *ECB CUTS MARGINAL LENDING FACILITY TO 4.50%; EST. 4.50% *ECB CUTS MAIN REFINANCING RATE BY 25BPS TO 4.25%; EST. 4.25% post: ECB SAYS ECB WILL CONTINUE TO REINVEST, IN FULL, PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS FROM MATURING SECURITIES PURCHASED UNDER PEPP UNTIL END OF JUNE 2024 || ECB SAYS OVER SECOND HALF OF YEAR, IT WILL REDUCE PEPP PORTFOLIO BY €7.5 BILLION PER MONTH ON AVERAGE ECB SAYS ECB INTENDS TO DISCONTINUE… post: ECB Not Pre-Committing To Any Particular Rate Path - Inflation Likely To Stay Above Target Well Into Next Year - Raises Inflation Forecasts For 2024, 2025European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points The European Central Bank has eased the pressure on borrowers across the eurozone after cutting its main interest rate for the first time in almost five years. The ECB reduced its deposit rate to 3.75% from a record high of 4%, putting it ahead of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which have yet to cut interest rates. Financial markets eagerly anticipated the first eurozone cut since September 2019, which will also affect the ECB’s main refinancing operations rate, which fell from 4.5% to 4.25%. City analysts had forecast the cut in borrowing costs at the ECB’s June meeting after signals that that the central bank was ready to offer more support to eurozone economies after a period of economic stagnation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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China's Trade Balance for May, in Chinese Yuan terms, came in at CNY586.40 billion, widening from the previous figure of CNY513.45 billion. Exports jumped by 11.2% YoY in May vs. ...
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post: INDIAN INTEREST RATE DECISION ACTUAL 6.5% (FORECAST 6.5%, PREVIOUS 6.50%) $MACRO post: RBI CHIEF: 4 OUT OF 6 MPC MEMBERS VOTE IN FAVOUR OF POLICY STANCE post: RBI CHIEF: PRIVATE CONSUMPTION IS RECOVERING post: RBI CHIEF: FY25 CPI INFLATION VIEW RETAINED AT 4.5%
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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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Thanks to yesterday’s session, gold bulls gained an important ally, but is it enough to go higher? Looking at the daily chart, we see that although the U.S. currency moved a bit above the previously broken red horizontal line (based on the lower border of the orange consolidation about which you could read in previous Quick Gold Alerts) and the 200-day ...
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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 ...