The prices of gold and silver continued their downward trend and completed yesterday a three day drop. Their recent descent coincided with the ongoing weakening of leading currencies against the US dollar. In the news, the German IFO Business Climate…
The gold and silver market has cooled down from last week’s high volatility, following last week’s FOMC’s no-tapering decision. On Monday, gold and silver slightly declined. Their decline coincided with the downfall of other commodities such as crude oil. In…
Silver Wheaton Corp. (SLW) has made a comeback in the stock market in the past three months: Shares of Silver Wheaton rose by 21.5% since the end of July (up-to-date). Nonetheless, during September the company’s stock fell by nearly 6%.…
The prices of gold and silver rallied during last week. The latest FOMC meeting ended with Bernanke keeping the monetary policy unchanged even though many had expected the Fed will start tapering its asset purchase program. As a result gold…
Despite the high volatility in the commodities markets, gold and silver didn’t do much on a weekly scale as both precious metals rallied; on the other hand, oil and natural gas changed direction and fell during last week. The highly…
The high volatility of gold and silver prices during Thursday and Friday resulted in gold and silver only slightly rising during the week compared to last week’s prices: Gold rose by 1.85% and silver by 0.94%. The highly anticipated FOMC…
Gold and silver prices sharply rose yesterday following the decision of the FOMC ot keep its policy unchanged without tapering its asset purchase program. The progress of the U.S economy will continue to affect FOMC members and whether there will…
Despite the high expectations, the FOMC left its policy unchanged and didn’t decide to taper its asset purchase program at this point. This decision has had an immediate effect on the financial markets: Long term treasuries yields have dropped; the…
Following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which it was decided to maintain $85 billion a month asset purchase program. From the FOMC’s statement: “…the Committee decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its…
The FOMC concluded its two day meeting with the decision to keep its $85 billion a month asset purchase program unchanged. This means, the FOMC won’t start tapering this month. This news is likely to pull down the USD and…