Major commodities including oil, gold and silver rallied last week after they had tumbled a week earlier. Equities and forex markets haven’t done much during last week. The focus of attention might shift back to forex as many important meetings…
Gold and silver changed direction from their downward during the past couple of weeks and rallied during last week. Specifically, the price of gold rose by 4.18% and silver by almost 3.5%. Was this rally a correction to the sharp…
The bureau of economic analysis published today April 26th its first estimate of the growth rate of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product for Q1 2013. Based on the recent report, U.S output of goods and services growth rate rose by…
Last week was characterized with high volatility, in which gold and silver fell precipitately, other commodities such as oil also fell, the Euro and Aussie dollar depreciated against the USD and natural gas spiked. The upcoming week might not be…
The precious metals market just recorded one of its worst performing week in years. The price of gold tumbled down by 7% and silver by almost 13%. I could go over the main reports of the week (and I will)…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics published its recent report of the U.S CPI for March 2013. Based on the recent report, the consumer price index declined for the first time this year; in annual terms the US CPI increased by…
Major commodities including crude oil gold and silver tumbled down during most of last week. The sharp fall in oil prices may have stemmed from the recent negative U.S report (e.g. retail sales) that showed a decline in demand, and…
Gold and silver took another beating and had one of the worst performing weeks in recent years. As of April 12th, the price of gold plummeted by 5.9%, which makes April the worst performing month for gold (to date) since…
The minutes of the recent FOMC meeting were published and didn’t reveal anything new: several members still think the current asset purchase program, in which the Fed is purchasing each month $85 billion of mortgage backed securities and long term…
The prices of major commodities including gold, crude oil and silver tumbled down during most of last week. Conversely, major currencies moved in a mixed trend: The Euro rose against the USD while the Japanese Yen fell against the USD.…