Oil and natural gas continued to trade down on a weekly scale along with precious metals. These losses were recorded after the USD slightly recovered against leading currencies such as Euro and Yen and U.S equities traded up. On this…
Gold changed direction and bounced back mainly on Wednesday, while silver dwindled on a weekly scale. Moreover, on a monthly scale gold is up by over 2% and silver is down by a similar rate (up to date). What is…
The commodities markets moved in an unclear trend last week as oil remained nearly flat, natural gas bounced back, silver traded down and gold rallied. On this week’s agenda: U.S consumer sentiment, GDP reports for the second quarter from Japan,…
The silver market continued to cool down last week. The recent economic reports from the U.S including the GDP, non-farm payroll and press release of the FOMC meeting may have contributed to the weakness in the silver market. Will the…
Precious metals fell again during last week until Friday when the non-farm payroll report showed a gain of 209K in jobs – less than market expectations. Earlier this week, the FOMC decided to taper again its QE3 program and had…
The oil market cooled down in the past week despite the decision of Europe and U.S to impose economic sanctions on Russia, which could bring down the oil exports from Russia to the west. Currently, the sanctions aren’t expected to…
Most leading commodities took a nose dive last week, while USD rallied against leading currencies. This week, BOJ, BOE, RBA and ECB will have a rate decision meeting, in the U.S several economic reports will come out including non-manufacturing PMI,…
Silver and gold resumed their downward trend during most of last week. The recovery of the USD against leading currencies may have contributed to the decline of precious metals. The lack of growth in the U.S equities and the drop…
This week, several U.S economic reports will be published including non-farm payroll, manufacturing PMI, GDP Q2 first estimate, pending home sales, and jobless claims. The FOMC will convene again for the fifth time this year to decide of any changes…
Silver and gold took a nosedive last week. Even the escalation in the relations between Russia and US wasn’t enough to pull up precious metals. The Chair of the FOMC Janet Yellen testified before Congress, in which she didn’t provide…