Silver prices surged above $90/oz in early 2026 due to a confluence of four structural forces: a physical run on paper silver, China's export controls, increased central bank accumulation, and rising demand from nuclear…
XRP, a major crypto token, traded near $1.38 with a market cap of about $86.4 billion and 24‑hour volume of $1.78 billion but was down roughly 6.8% over seven days as the U.S. 10‑year Treasury yield climbed toward 4.8% …
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower after a mixed start to trading on Monday, following the holiday-shortened week due to the Juneteenth Federal holiday. We may start to see some end-of-the-quarter reall…
Oil markets woke Sunday to the most significant single-night military exchange in the three-month US-Iran conflict: 140 American strikes on Iranian military targets, followed by Iranian missile and drone attacks on US a…
The European Union should act now to head off growing impacts from the Iran conflict on gas prices and availability
U.S. interest-rate futures moved to price the odds of a rate increase at the Federal Open Market Committee's September 15-16 meeting at below 50%, compared with expectations earlier in the week that a hike was more like…
Gold (XAU/USD) moves quietly on Friday after two straight days of gains, as traders appear reluctant to take fresh positions ahead of the US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report at 12:30 GMT. The metal briefly climbed above $4…
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps formally declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all commercial traffic "until further notice" early Sunday, hours after striking the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy in …
S&P 500 Today LIVE: S&P 500 faces downward pressure following the retracement by Wall Street from its highs and the major index closed at 7,706.22, falling 38.84 points, representing -0.50%. The decline was attributed t…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is weighing whether to send possibly thousands of U.S. troops into Iran as he looks for a way to achieve some of his key goals and end the war, according to the two current U.S. offic…
Good morning, lovely people, and happy hump day. Today’s issue is packed with energy news — from retail fuel price hike to macroeconomic headwinds as another ratings agency trims India’s GDP forecast. To soften the fisc…
Iran has responded to US and Israeli attacks by launching a series of counterstrikes against states across the Middle East, with serious consequences for the oil and gas industry and the global economy.
Spot Gold (XAU/USD) was trading around $4,115 an ounce, up 0.40% for the day, while Gold futures (GC00) gained 1.1% to $4,111.50, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The yellow metal rebounded after Tuesday’s steep 5.7%…
Precious metals investors are watching market conditions closely as gold and silver hover at pivotal price points. While both metals have already posted impressive gains, multiple converging factors suggest we may be wi…
International gold prices have just suffered their worst monthly drop in nearly 18 years, and Wall Street titan JPMorgan has dropped a bombshell, slashing its gold price forecasts for the second half of the year by 20% …
The US Treasury market is undergoing a violent repricing. On Monday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield briefly broke above 4.76%, its highest level since January 2025. The 5-year yield rose to levels last seen in ear…
Most commodity markets operate on a single dominant clock. Supply tightens, prices rise. Demand weakens, prices fall. Gold, by contrast, runs on at least two clocks simultaneously, and they are currently telling very di…
Every time a geopolitical crisis threatens a major energy chokepoint, financial markets respond before the physical world has a chance to catch up. This structural asymmetry between paper crude markets and real-world su…
The United States and Israel launched a major military campaign against Iran on Feb. 28, triggering a weekslong war that has spread to neighboring countries and roiled energy markets around the globe.
Oil rose for a third day as President Donald Trump threatened further strikes on Iran, hours after the US resumed its blockade on the Islamic Republic’s shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Gold climbed 1.08% to $4,415.51 on Wednesday, its highest level in more than two months.
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Gold (XAU/USD) steadies on Friday after falling nearly 2% the previous day, as surging Oil prices fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve (Fed) may need to raise interest rates amid a worsening inflation outlook. A…
In early 2025 the Bank of Canada warned that escalating trade tariffs are raising inflation risks that could push inflation above its 2% target and force a pause or reversal of the central bank’s rate-cutting cycle, inc…
