Gold prices were steady on Friday as a weaker dollar helped offset pressures from an increased appetite for riskier assets following reports of a breakthrough in China-U.S. trade negotiations, while...
Oil rose near the highest level in almost three months after U.S. President Donald Trump signed off on a partial trade deal with China, giving a boost to the fragile outlook for global oil...
Stock futures climbed Friday, as two major geopolitical uncertainties appeared to lift for investors, with movement on U.S.-China trade progress and a decisive election in the U.K. that may clear a...
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index drops a second week as riskier assets gain after U.S.-China agree on a phase-one trade deal and the U.K.’s Conservative Party wins a crushing majority in...
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Stock futures climbed Friday, as two major geopolitical uncertainties appeared to lift for investors, with movement on U.S.-China trade progress and a decisive election in the U.K. that may clear a path for Brexit.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 129 points, or 0.5%, to 28,257, while S&P 500 futures rose 12.75 points, or 0.4%, to 3,180.75.
On Thursday, the Dow closed 220.75...
A key measure of U.S. consumer prices remained subdued in November, bolstering widespread expectations Federal Reserve policy makers will hold the line on interest rates.
The core consumer price index, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.2% for a second month, and 2.3% from a year earlier, a Labor Department report showed Wednesday. Those figures matched the median...
Gold prices were steady on Friday as a weaker dollar helped offset pressures from an increased appetite for riskier assets following reports of a breakthrough in China-U.S. trade negotiations, while palladium scaled a fresh peak.
Spot gold fell 0.1% to $1,467.20 per ounce by 0452 GMT, but was up about 0.5% so far this week.
U.S. gold futures were down 0.1% at $1,471.60.
Sources said on...
North Korea berated the U.S. Thursday for denouncing its ballistic missile tests at a United Nations Security Council meeting.
U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft said at the meeting Wednesday that Pyongyang's missile tests were "deeply counterproductive" and threatened talks to get North Korea to abandon its missile and nuclear programs.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman...
The European Central Bank kept monetary stimulus unchanged at President Christine Lagarde™s first policy meeting, shifting the focus to when she™ll announce her review of the institution™s strategy for safeguarding theeuro-zone economy.
The ECB kept its deposit rate at a record-low minus 0.5%, and bond purchases at 20 billion euros ($22 billion) a...
Time | Country | IM | Figures | Previous | Forecast | Actual |
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01.01 | U.S | L | 30-y Bond Auction | 2.43|2.2 | - | 2.31|2.5 |
06.50 | JPN | L | Tankan Manufacturing Index | 5 | 3 | 0 |
06.50 | JPN | L | Tankan Non-Manufacturing Index | 21 | 16 | 20 |
11.30 | JPN | L | Revised Industrial Production m/m | -4.2% | -4.1% | -4.5% |
16.30 | GBP | L | Consumer Inflation Expectations | 3.3% | 3.1% | |
20.30 | U.S | H | Core Retail Sales m/m | 0.2% | 0.4% | |
20.30 | U.S | H | Retail Sales m/m (US) | 0.3% | 0.5% | |
20.30 | U.S | L | Import Prices m/m | -0.5% | 0.2% | |
22.00 | U.S | L | Business Inventories m/m | 0.0% | 0.2% |
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...