Metals News
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Sylvester Stallone is about to score a massive payday after putting his watch collection up for auction, because one of the timepieces could fetch a literal king's ransom. As you might have heard, the 'Rocky' star is selling 11 watches from his personal collection through Sotheby's next month ... and one crown jewel, in particular, has a watch expert going ...
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Libyan authorities have arrested several customs officials for attempting to traffic abroad about 26 tons of gold worth almost 1.8 billion euros ($1.9 billion), prosecutors said. The Libyan prosecutor’s office did not detail the suspected origin of the massive amount of precious metal, greater than the national gold reserves of many countries. Authorities ...
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There are certain names that echo down from the history of finance and economics. Adam Smith is one. Milton Friedman is another. So does the British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes’ was, and famously remains, an advocate of government deficit spending in a recession. It’s hard to imagine now how radical this position was in the decade before the ...
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post: Powell: We’ve Seen Demand for Workers Cooling Off Pretty Substantially Powell: You Also See Wages Coming Down Powell: I Think That Tells You That Policy is Probably Restrictive post: Powell: Credit Has Been Tight for Some Time Powell: Credit Growth Has Been Modest post: Powell: We’re Not Sitting Around Wondering About Longer-Run Neutral When We Make Policy Today post: Powell: US Banking System Overall is in Good Shape Powell: Our Large Banks Are Strong, Well Capitalized post: POWELL: LENDING ACTIVITIES BY NONBANKS ARE GROWING VERY, VERY FAST POWELL: WE NEED TO MONITOR THAT VERY CAREFULLY POWELL: VERY FAST GROWTH IN ANYTHING RAISES FINANCIAL STABILITY CONCERNS
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CPI for April will be released on Wednesday. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI (up 3.4% YoY), and a 0.3% increase in core CPI (up 3.6% YoY). Here are a couple of analyst's forecasts. From BofA: For the April CPI report, we forecast headline CPI rose by 0.3% m/m. Based on our forecast, the y/y rate should tick down to 3.4%. The main factor behind our ...
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video Silver peaked at a high of 28.77 last Friday before ending the day in the red with a bearish candlestick pattern. Sellers again dominated today, Monday, as the price of silver fell below Friday’s low of 28.04. However, support was seen at the day’s low of 27.97, leading to a minor intraday bounce. Support was seen around the crossing of two rising ...
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Tuesday to the Foreign Bankers' Association in Amsterdam.
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A pair of economic reports this week will show whether inflation is holding strong, receding somewhat or even perhaps increasing as 2024 progresses. First up will be the producer ...
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The Biden administration announced stiff new tariff rates Tuesday on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports. The White House said the tariff hikes were necessary to protect American ...
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The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.5 percent in April, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices declined 0.1 ...
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post: Fed’s Powell: US Economy Has Been Performing Very Well Fed’s Powell: US Economy Has a Very Strong Labor Mkt Fed’s Powell: Households Are in Good Shape Financially post: Powell: Overall a Good Picture Looking at US Economic Data So Far Fed’s Powell: Labor Mkt is Coming Back Into Better Balance Powell: Labor Mkt Moving Back Into Better Balance post: Powell: Signs of Gradual Cooling in the Labor Mkt with Supply and Demand Getting Into Better Balance Powell: Inflation in Q1 Was Notable for the Lack of Further Progress Powell: We Did Not Expect a Smooth Road on Inflation, We Have to Be Patient and Let Policy Do Its Work post: Fed’s Powell: We Expect Continued GDP Growth 2% or Better Powell: We Expect the Labor Mkt to Continue to Rebalance but Remain Strong Fed’s Powell: Expect Inflation Will Move Back Down Powell: Expect Inflation to Move Down Back to Levels More Like Last Year post: Fed's Powell: my confidence in inflation moving back down is lower than it was.
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post: Powell: the Policy Rate is Restrictive Powell: Time Will Tell if We’re Sufficiently Restrictive on Policy Powell: Don’t Think Likely Next Move Would Be a Rate Hike post: Powell: Restrictive Policy May Take Longer Than Expected to Bring Inflation Down Powell: We Will Get Inflation Down to 2% post: Powell: Housing Inflation Has Been a Bit of a Puzzle Powell: Current Rent Increases Have Been Low for Some Time, Not Showing Up in Rollover Leases post: Powell: Lags Between Decline in Mkt Rates and It Showing Up Are Longer Than We Though Powell: It Should Show Up, Just a Question of When post: Powell on the April PPI: "I wouldn’t call it hot. I would call it sort of mixed." (The main readthroughs to PCE from the PPI likely offset as lower airfares and health care costs likely offset the hotter financial services subcomponent.)
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Gold price touched its 61.8% Fibonacci retracement, just like before. But white metal’s history is also rhyming. Let’s start with a quick note regarding gold. Namely, nothing changed. Just as I had explained previously, a move to the 61.8% retracement in gold is a completely normal phenomenon and yesterday’s slide as well as today’s lack of meaningful ...
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Silver has been rather noisy during the trading session on Monday, as we are bring in our hands against the major resistance level. The $20.50 level continues to be important, and the fact that we ended up forming a shooting star during the trading session on Friday only reiterated this. Underneath, we have the $28 level that could offer support, and has so ...
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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 ...