Metals News
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In advance of today's CPI and Real Earnings releases, BLS inadvertently loaded a subset of files to the website approximately 30 minutes prior to the release. BLS has alerted the Office of Management and Budget and DOL's Office of the Inspector General of the incident. BLS takes its data security seriously and is conducting a full investigation into its ...
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Senator Bob Menendez’s bribery trial began Wednesday with a US prosecutor telling jurors that the New Jersey Democrat took cash, gold bars and a luxury car from two businessmen to perform favors for them and corruptly help the Egyptian government. Menendez, the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is also accused of illegally helping ...
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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: ECB's De Cos: Every Indicator Points Towards First Interest Rate Cut In June
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In March 2024 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to February 2024, decreased for exports (-1.7%) and increased for imports (+1.5%). Exports increased by +0.6% for EU countries and decreased by -3.9% for non-EU countries. Imports rose by +0.3% for EU countries and by +3.2% for non-EU countries. Over the last quarter, seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the ...
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A massive dislocation between the prices for copper traded in New York and other commodity exchanges has rocked the global market for the metal and prompted a frantic dash for supplies to ship to the US. The source of the disruption is a short squeeze that has driven up prices on the Comex exchange in recent days. The premium fetched by New York copper ...
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Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter as consumers and companies cut spending, underscoring the fragile nature of the recovery and extending a dismal performance stretching ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing early on Thursday on the first foreign trip of his new term. Putin is due to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as the two ...
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The new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, semiconductors and medical supplies announced by the Biden administration on Tuesday raised questions for U.S. consumers and prompted ...
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In trend terms, in April 2024: • unemployment rate remained at 4.0%. • participation rate remained at 66.7%. • employment increased to 14,289,600. • employment to population ratio ...
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The GDP data released earlier today showed anything but a recovery, modest or otherwise: • Japan's annualised Q1 GDP -2.0% q/q (vs -1.5% expected)But, let's give Minister Shindo ...
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Retail sales were weaker than expected in April, furthering concerns about the state of the consumer amid sticky inflation and higher interest rates. Retail sales were flat in ...
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video Buyers stepped up on Wednesday to help push the price of gold to a new trend high of 2,390. A bullish breakout triggered on the weekly chart on a move above last week’s high of 2,378. At the time of this writing the high of the day is 2,390. Today’s advance took gold back above a top channel line, which has been tested as resistance several times in ...
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Precious metals were looking strong even before the release of US CPI data, with gold holding in a bullish consolidation pattern following last week’s 2.5% gains and silver was already on the ascendency over the past couple of days. Both metals rallied once the CPI report was released, and after some profit-taking, recovered again to rise to fresh session ...
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Gold prices hit an all-time high of $2,448.80/oz. on April 12, 2024, on the back of hotter-than-expected NFP, sticky inflation and rising geopolitical risk. These factors attracted inflow of funds as shown by increasing managed money long positions to around two-year high. Despite the pullback towards the end of the month as profit-taking and U.S. dollar ...