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Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower after a mixed start to trading on Monday, following the holiday-shortened week due to the Juneteenth Federal holiday. We may start to see some end-of-the-quarter reall…
Gold (XAU/USD) moves quietly on Friday after two straight days of gains, as traders appear reluctant to take fresh positions ahead of the US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report at 12:30 GMT. The metal briefly climbed above $4…
U.S. interest-rate futures moved to price the odds of a rate increase at the Federal Open Market Committee's September 15-16 meeting at below 50%, compared with expectations earlier in the week that a hike was more like…
The European Union should act now to head off growing impacts from the Iran conflict on gas prices and availability
S&P 500 Today LIVE: S&P 500 faces downward pressure following the retracement by Wall Street from its highs and the major index closed at 7,706.22, falling 38.84 points, representing -0.50%. The decline was attributed t…
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps formally declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all commercial traffic "until further notice" early Sunday, hours after striking the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy in …
Good morning, lovely people, and happy hump day. Today’s issue is packed with energy news — from retail fuel price hike to macroeconomic headwinds as another ratings agency trims India’s GDP forecast. To soften the fisc…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is weighing whether to send possibly thousands of U.S. troops into Iran as he looks for a way to achieve some of his key goals and end the war, according to the two current U.S. offic…
Iran has responded to US and Israeli attacks by launching a series of counterstrikes against states across the Middle East, with serious consequences for the oil and gas industry and the global economy.
NVIDIA is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading hub for open source AI models and datasets, for $12.9 billion. Futurum examines why NVIDIA would make this move, why the open model distribution l…
Spot Gold (XAU/USD) was trading around $4,115 an ounce, up 0.40% for the day, while Gold futures (GC00) gained 1.1% to $4,111.50, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The yellow metal rebounded after Tuesday’s steep 5.7%…
Precious metals investors are watching market conditions closely as gold and silver hover at pivotal price points. While both metals have already posted impressive gains, multiple converging factors suggest we may be wi…
International gold prices have just suffered their worst monthly drop in nearly 18 years, and Wall Street titan JPMorgan has dropped a bombshell, slashing its gold price forecasts for the second half of the year by 20% …
The US Treasury market is undergoing a violent repricing. On Monday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield briefly broke above 4.76%, its highest level since January 2025. The 5-year yield rose to levels last seen in ear…
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz rose more than 30% over the past week, according to new maritime tracking data, marking a notable improvement even as shipping through the critical energy chokepoint remains f…
Most commodity markets operate on a single dominant clock. Supply tightens, prices rise. Demand weakens, prices fall. Gold, by contrast, runs on at least two clocks simultaneously, and they are currently telling very di…
Every time a geopolitical crisis threatens a major energy chokepoint, financial markets respond before the physical world has a chance to catch up. This structural asymmetry between paper crude markets and real-world su…
Gold climbed 1.08% to $4,415.51 on Wednesday, its highest level in more than two months.
Oil rose for a third day as President Donald Trump threatened further strikes on Iran, hours after the US resumed its blockade on the Islamic Republic’s shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Gold (XAU/USD) price retreats some 0.40% on Monday after last Friday's hawkish remarks by Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Kevin Warsh, which sparked speculation of a possible rate hike at the September meeting. Despite this…
Gold (XAU/USD) steadies on Friday after falling nearly 2% the previous day, as surging Oil prices fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve (Fed) may need to raise interest rates amid a worsening inflation outlook. A…
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In early 2025 the Bank of Canada warned that escalating trade tariffs are raising inflation risks that could push inflation above its 2% target and force a pause or reversal of the central bank’s rate-cutting cycle, inc…
Global oil and natural gas prices surged sharply on Thursday after Iran launched fresh strikes on key energy infrastructure across the Gulf, including Qatarâs main liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, raising concern…
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