Metals News
-
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 ...
-
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.
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
In the week ending June 1, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 229,000, an increase of 8,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 219,000 to 221,000. The 4-week moving average was 222,250, a decrease of 750 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's ...
-
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 ...
-
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?
-
Canadian economic activity expanded in May at the slowest pace in 10 months as a measure of inflation picked up, Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data showed on Thursday. The ...
-
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 ...
-
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.
-
post: BoJ's Nakamura: Japan's economy at critical juncture https://t.co/IwKcPts4Zm post: BoJ Gov Ueda: Price Expectations Must Be Around 2% For Price Target - Inflation Expectations Still Below 2% - Want To Proceed Cautiously On Interest Rates post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: UNCERTAINTIES SURROUND MEASURING NEUTRAL RATE post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: TO AVOID SUCH A SCENARIO, BOJ WOULD NEED TO ADJUST DEGREE OF MONETARY EASING WHICH WOULD REQUIRE RAISING SHORT-TERM POLICY TARGET post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: REDUCE BOND BUYING DURING EXIT
-
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. ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...