The commodities markets are heating up again: Last week leading commodities such as oil, gold and silver prices sharply increased. Moreover, leading currencies including Euro, Japanese yen and Canadian dollar also appreciated against the US dollar during last week. Will…
The prices of gold and silver changed direction and bounced back from their sharp tumble during the beginning of July following the U.S non-farm payroll report. It seems that the market sentiment has shifted after the publication of the minutes…
The minutes of the latest FOMC meeting were published today. The minutes didn’t present too much added value information that wasn’t covered in the statement of the FOMC meeting and the press conference that followed. But the market is reacting…
The U.S. employment rose again by a higher than expected pace – based on the ADP estimate, the non-farm payroll increased by 195k during May: Based on the recent U.S. employment report, which was published today, July 5th by the…
The leading energy commodities such as oil bounced back last week while other commodities including gold silver and natural gas continued to trade down during last week. Will leading commodities continue to trade down? In the forthcoming week several reports,…
The U.S. Census Bureau reported (opens pdf) today on the changes in number of new homes sold in the U.S during May 2013: the number of new homes sales increased compared with the number of new homes sold during April…
The Fed left its policy unchanged for June. Nonetheless, in the press conference that followed Chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, said the Fed may start to scale back its current $85 billion a month of long term securities by…
Leading commodities such as oil, gold and silver rallied during last week. Leading currencies including Euro, Japanese yen and Aussie dollar appreciated against the USD last week. Will commodities continue to trade up this week? This forthcoming week several reports,…
Major commodities including natural gas, silver and gold slipped during last week. The latest decision of ECB to leave its cash rate unchanged helped pull up the Euro and bullion rates. But the latest U.S employment report, in which 175k…
The bullion market changed direction during the week as both gold and silver rallied at the beginning of the week only to plummet at the end of the week. At the beginning of the week commodities prices rallied perhaps on…