Hong Kong stocks started with gains Friday morning with investors remaining optimistic that China and the United States will reach a partial trade deal. The Hang Seng index added 0.49 per cent, or...
The dollar nursed a week of losses on Friday, hit by nervousness on trade and mixed signals about the U.S. economy, while the British pound stood tall as bets firmed that Prime Minister Boris...
Oil sputtered near $58 a barrel as the OPEC+ coalition failed to pin down the details of an agreement to adjust its official output target even after six hours of talks in Vienna. Futures were...
Tokyo stocks opened higher on Friday, extending rallies on Wall Street supported by continued hopes for a US-China trade deal. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged up 0.31 per cent or 72.91 points...
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Hong Kong stocks started with gains Friday morning with investors remaining optimistic that China and the United States will reach a partial trade deal.
The Hang Seng index added 0.49 per cent, or 128.16 points, to 26,345.20.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index edged up 0.10 per cent, or 2.81 points, to 2,902.28, while the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second...
AUD's marathon of data for the week has continued today with the release of the October Retail Sales and Trade Balance.
Note: Retail Sales was the main focus in these releases.
The data arrived as follows :
Imports (Oct) 0% vs prior 3%.
Exports (Oct) -5% vs prior 3%.
Trade Balance (Oct) 4502 M vs 6100 M expected and prior 7180 M.
Retail Sales s.a. (MoM)...
The dollar nursed a week of losses on Friday, hit by nervousness on trade and mixed signals about the U.S. economy, while the British pound stood tall as bets firmed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson can win a commanding electoral victory.
The safe havens of the Japanese yen and Swiss franc were in demand as a hedge against Sino-U.S. trade talks collapsing, and as investors fretted that U.S....
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met Wednesday in an effort to defuse rising tensions over disputed territorial waters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The meeting on the sideline of the London NATO summit comes amid Turkish-Greek tensions over territorial disputes about the Mediterranean.
Bilateral tensions have escalated...
Australia™s central bank kept interest rates unchanged as it waits for three cuts since June to flow through to areas of the economy beyond the property market.
Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe and his board kept the cash rate at 0.75% Tuesday, in line with expectations of economists and money markets. He will want to hold onto his remaining...
Time | Country | IM | Figures | Previous | Forecast | Actual |
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06.30 | JPN | L | Average Cash Earnings y/y | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.5% |
06.30 | JPN | L | Household Spending y/y | 9.5% | -3.1% | -5.1% |
12.00 | JPN | L | Leading Indicators | 92.2% | 93.1% | |
14.00 | EUR | L | German Industrial Production m/m | -0.6% | 0.2% | |
14.45 | EUR | L | French Trade Balance | -5.6B | -4.8B | |
15.00 | CHF | L | Foreign Currency Reserves / Cadangan Devisa | 779B | ||
15.30 | GBP | L | Halifax HPI m/m | -0.1% | 0.2% | |
16.00 | EUR | L | Italian Retail Sales m/m | 0.7% | 0.5% | |
20.30 | U.S | H | Average Hourly Earnings m/m | 0.2% | 0.3% | |
20.30 | U.S | H | Non-Farm Employment Change | 128K | 189K | |
20.30 | U.S | H | Unemployment Rate (US) | 3.6% | 3.6% | |
22.00 | U.S | M | Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment | 96.8 | 97.0 | |
22.00 | U.S | L | Final Wholesale Inventories m/m | 0.2% | 0.2% | |
22.00 | U.S | L | Prelim UoM Inflation Expectations | 2.5% | ||
All Day | ALL | L | ECOFIN Meetings | - | - | - |
Confusion and uncertainty dominates the gold market as traders and investors continue to react to shifting trade sentiment between China and the U.S.
The latest Kitco News Weekly Gold Survey shows Wall Street analysts nearly caught in a three-way tie, while only a slight majority of retail investors remain bearish on gold.
"One day a trade deal with China is on and then the...