Metals News
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A jeweller was charged in court on Tuesday (May 7) for failing to perform customer due diligence as part of anti-money laundering measures. Kim Heng Jewellers and Goldsmiths, located at People's Park Complex in Chinatown, allegedly committed the offence on three occasions between September and October last year, when it handled gold transactions worth more ...
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Afghanistan’s top diplomat in India resigned days after she was reportedly caught by airport authorities smuggling nearly $2 million worth of gold into the country. Zakia Wardak, the Afghan Consul-General in India’s financial capital Mumbai, posted a statement on social media platform X announcing her resignation. Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi shut ...
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When it comes to Contracts for Difference (CFDs), one of the most common questions among traders is how long do you hold a CFD? Unlike some financial instruments, CFDs do not have a fixed expiry date and therefore traders can use different trading strategies at their will. Nevertheless, the period that you keep a derivative will affect both your trading ...
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“The entire supply chain of the light metal is being impacted, with premiums rising, including in the United States,” Fernando Garcia Martinez, vice president of operations at Mexican aluminium institute IMEDAL, told Fastmarkets this week. Fastmarkets’ daily assessment of the aluminium P1020A premium, ddp Midwest US was at $19.50-22.00 cents per lb on ...
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Our gold and silver analysis remains bullish. The precious metals' prices rose on Monday before easing back a little at the time of writing on Tuesday. Out of the two metals, silver’s rise was more eye-catching as the new week began, with the metal rising a good 3.3% on the session. Silver rally has helped it to climb out of a consolidation pattern, ...
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post: FED'S KASHKARI: TOO SOON TO DECLARE WE ARE STALLED OUT ON INFLATION. post: FED'S KASHKARI: IF WE NEED TO HOLD RATES FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD, OR RAISE RATES, WE WILL DO THAT. post: FED'S KASHKARI: INFLATION WHERE IT IS NOW IS NOT THE NEW NORMAL; THE FED WILL ACHIEVE 2% INFLATION post: KASHKARI: RATE CUT THIS YEAR IS STILL A POSSIBILITY
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podcast Over the first two decades of the currency union, labour productivity (output per worker) in the euro area has been weak, at least when compared to other advanced ...
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Recent comments from a number of MPC members have hinted that a cut in Bank Rate might not be too far away and possibly rather sooner than financial markets currently expect. ...
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In 2023, Bruce Springsteen kicked off a year-long U.S. tour. However, after a concert at the Meadowlands in New Jersey in September, he had to cut the tour short due to a health ...
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At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate target unchanged at 4.35 per cent and the interest rate paid on Exchange Settlement balances unchanged at 4.25 per ...
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Over the past few years, I have published a series of essays assessing where we are in our inflation fight and highlighting some important questions policymakers are facing. My most recent essay was in February of this year, where I questioned how much monetary policy was actually restraining demand. This essay is an update to that commentary, and I now examine the current stance of monetary policy in more detail.1 I will argue that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has tightened policy significantly, compared with prior cycles, both in absolute terms and relative to the market’s understanding of neutral. But I will also observe that the housing market is proving more resilient to that tight policy than it generally has in the past. Given that housing is a key channel through which monetary policy affects the economy, its resilience raises questions about whether policymakers and the market are misperceiving neutral, at least in the near term. It is possible that once the reopening dynamics of the post-COVID economy have concluded, the macro forces that drove the low-rate environment that existed before the pandemic will reemerge, pulling neutral back down. But the FOMC must set policy based on where neutral is in the short run to achieve our dual mandate goals in a reasonable period of time. The uncertainty about where neutral is today creates a challenge for policymakers. post: FED'S KASHKARI: HOUSING MARKET IS PROVING MORE RESILIENT TO TIGHT MONETARY POLICY THAN IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST post: FED'S KASHKARI: IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HOUSING MARKET RESILIENCE MEANS THE NEUTRAL RATE HAS BEEN PUSHED HIGHER, AT LEAST IN THE SHORT TERM. post: FED'S KASHKARI: I QUESTION POLICY RESTRICTIVENESS, GIVEN THE INFLATION DATA. post: KASHKARI: FED MUST SET POLICY BASED ON SHORT-RUN NEUTRAL RATE
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post: Fed’s Kashkari: Most Likely Scenario is We Stay Put for Extended Period on Rates post: KASHKARI: JOBS REPORT FRIDAY WAS SOFTER THAN EXPECTED BUT NOT SOFT post: Fed’s Kashkari: in March I Jotted Down Two Rate Cuts for This Year; Possible Will Stay at 2, or Go to 1 or 0 Rate Cuts for June Sep post: FED'S KASHKARI: IF WE SEE A MARKED LABOR WEAKENING, IT COULD SPUR A CUT. post: KASHKARI: WOULD NEED TO SEE MULTIPLE READINGS ON INFLATION TO BE CONFIDENT TO CUT RATES
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Gold’s price appears to have stabilized in the past week, with it potentially receiving some safe-haven inflows since the beginning of the week, following the most recent developments in the Middle East. Today we are to discuss the fundamental challenges laid ahead for the precious metal as well as financial releases that may have affected the direction of ...
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Our gold and silver analysis remains bullish. The precious metals' prices rose on Monday before easing back a little at the time of writing on Tuesday. Out of the two metals, silver’s rise was more eye-catching as the new week began, with the metal rising a good 3.3% on the session. Silver rally has helped it to climb out of a consolidation pattern, ...
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CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its April 2024 market statistics set a new average daily volume (ADV) record of 26.5 million contracts for the month, up 33% from April 2023, with double-digit growth across all asset classes. Additionally, interest rate, equity index, foreign exchange and options products set new April ...