The last NFP payroll report didn’t cause too many waves in the markets as it showed a 252K gain in jobs in December – inline with market expectations. Moreover, the recent minutes of the FOMC meeting also didn’t stir up…
U.S. employment rose, as expected, by 252K additional jobs, according to recent report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Market expectations and the ADP report were close to this figure – 241K jobs during December. According to the recent U.S.…
The prices of gold and silver took another tumble to end the year on a negative note. This week will the first full working week of 2015 that is likely to see a rise in volatility. This week the main…
The first full week of 2015 is upon us and the markets are likely to heat up from their holiday slumber. The main news headlines from the U.S. including minutes of the recent FOMC meeting and the NF payroll report.…
Barrick Gold (ABX) recently announced that the Supreme Court of Chile didn’t approve its appeal of a lower court ruling vis-à-vis sanctions imposed on the company’s Pascua-Lama mine by the country’s environmental regulator. This news could set back the development…
An exciting 2014 has ended and we have a packed show previewing the currencies and commodities in 2015: when will the Fed hike and how will the dollar react? How low can the euro go? Can it bounce back? And the same…
The prices of gold and silver didn’t do much last week as gold inched down by 0.1% and silver rallied by 0.8%. This low volatility is likely to continue on the last week of 2014. There are still a couple…
The last week of the year is likely to be another slow paced one in the financial markets. In the U.S. there are a few reports that will be released including: manufacturing PMI, pending home sales, consumer confidence, and unemployment…
The gold market continued to show a high level of volatility in the past several weeks. Nonetheless, SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is nearly flat for December and only 1.2% during 2014. But the ongoing low inflation and signs of recovery…
In this episode of Market Movers we have compiled a special holiday edition of the most popular topics: the risk reward ratio (make it your new year’s resolution?), the correlation (or lack of) between gold and inflation and Japan: the…