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…
The bullion market cooled down again last week even though the recent FOMC statement was relatively balanced and the market’s reaction was relatively calm. This upcoming short week is likely to entail low volatility as the year is winding down.…
Gold and silver resumed their recovery again, while the U.S. dollar sell offs against leading currencies took place. This week, however, the highly anticipated FOMC meeting could stir up the bullion market again and perhaps even change its direction. This…
Markets are different during the holiday season that just began. How should you react? We begin with this topic and then talk about things that do move markets: the US data and especially GDP that look more complicated than earlier, the UK…
The prices of gold and silver recovered again in the past week mainly by the end of the week following the recent decision from Beijing to slash the interest rate in order to deal with the economy’s sluggish growth rate…
Shares of SPDR Gold (GLD) are up by 2% since the beginning of the month. The recent release of the minutes of the FOMC didn’t move the precious metal ETF from its current price range. Let’s review the latest minutes…
The Aussie is a very popular currency and for good technical and fundamental reasons. After diving down under, we go back to the USA and examine all jobs numbers leading to the FOMC minutes. The British pound has been punished,…
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 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,…
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…