Gold and silver moved in an unclear trend last week as Yellen’s speech cooled down the bullion market while the NFP dragged it back down. This week isn’t likely to be much different with the upcoming release of the minutes…
Yellen hit the dollar hard with her dovishness and might do that soon. Why did she go there? We continue with analyzing the fresh figures coming out of the US and preview the upcoming events. You are welcome to listen,…
The labor market in the U.S. isn’t slowing down as the recent NFP showed another gain of 215K and a modest bump in wages. The markets are likely to keep digesting this news at the beginning of the week. Looking…
The latest U.S. non-farm payroll showed a slightly higher than expected headline figure: 215K jobs in March compared to the ADP’s anticipated a gain of 200K jobs and market expectations of 206K. The growth in wages inched up to 2.3%…
Precious metals changed direction and declined – along with other commodities – as the USD bounced back against the Euro and Japanese yen. Will the recent fall in gold and silver prices continue? Or will bullion prices change course again…
After a slow week, the markets are expected to present higher trading volume and this week is a bust one with: Yellen’s speech, U.S. NFP, China’s manufacturing PMI, EU flash CPI, U.S. PCE, Canada’s GDP, U.S. manufacturing PMI. So let’s…
We take a step back from the Fed focus, Draghi digest and other regular stuff and look into commodities: crude oil, copper and natural gas as we enter the Spring. You are welcome to listen, subscribe, provide feedback and pledge support…
Gold and silver received another boost from the FOMC. The Fed, as expected, didn’t change its cash rate but it did revise down in the dot plot the outlook for the cash rate from 4 hikes to 2 this year.…
The Fed went dovish even by their standards and the dollar will have a hard time recovering from the blow. In this episode we dive into dovish Fed. You are welcome to listen, subscribe, provide feedback and pledge support on Patreon. Dovish…
The Federal Reserve released a dovish statement that including lower outlook for the Fed’s fund rate in 2016-2018 and even the terminal rate was reduced by 0.25 bp to 3.25%. So without making any changes its cash rate or introducing…