The U.S. dollar changed direction and slipped against most currencies including Euro and Aussie dollar, while precious metals recovered. Energy prices including crude oil and natural gas also a dive during last week. Will the sharp changes and high volatility…
The ongoing weakness in the gold market led to a decline in shares of SPDR Gold, the world’s leading gold ETF, in the past several months. This weakness raises concerns whether this ETF could recover anytime soon. In order to…
Gold and silver bounced back on Friday following the release of the U.S. NF payroll report, which was slightly below expectations in terms of growth in number of jobs – 214K and not 230K as anticipated. Despite this rally, both…
The recent release of the NFP payroll report came a bit short than expected with 214K jobs added during October — nonetheless, this was enough to bring down the U.S. dollar and pull back up gold and silver. Looking forward,…
U.S. employment rose by a lower than anticipated rate with 214K additional jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure was below market expectations, which were at 229K and the ADP report showed that private non-farm payroll rose…
The tumble in gold and silver came following the announcement of the FOMC to end QE3 and hawkish statement. The U.S. GDP for the third quarter also provided some backwind for the U.S. dollar and dragged down bullion prices. Finally,…
The high volatility in the market following the FOMC and BOJ’s monetary policy meetings from last week could remain in the coming week. The main events of the week in the U.S. include NF payroll report, manufacturing PMI, factory orders…
There is a lot of action in markets and more to come: we preview the big events of November, which promise to be exciting. And before looking forward, we look back and run through the Fed bullishness, the impact of US…
The recent recovery of the U.S. dollar along with the rally of U.S. equities provided the proper climate to see gold and silver fall down. Moreover, the latest interview given by Bullard gave the necessary excuse to keep the speculations…
Major commodities including gold, silver and crude oil resumed their downward trend, while the U.S. gained some of its losses back from earlier this month. This week the main events will revolve around the before last FOMC meeting for the…