Wall Street and Main Street both look for gold prices to rise this week, based on the weekly Kitco News gold survey. The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting is widely expected to hike interest rates another 25 basis points this week. But that hasn't deterred analysts, who suggest this is already factored into prices. Eighteen market professionals took part in the Wall Street survey. Thirteen respondents, or 72%, predicted higher prices. There were two votes, or 11%, calling for lower...
Oil climbed near the highest level in more than two months as OPEC gave a tepid response to U.S. President Donald Trump's demand that it take rapid action to reduce prices, saying it would boost output only if customers requested it. Futures in New York rose as much as 1.2 percent after a 0.7 percent gain Friday. the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allied producers stopped short of promising specific extra volumes of crude after the group™s meeting...
Gold declines for second day with trade war in focus as U.S. and China hours away from new round of tariffs on each other's goods, and as investors count down to Federal Reserve's policy-setting meeting this week. Bullion for immediate delivery lost 0.3% to $1,196.81/oz by 9:15am in Singapore; fell 0.6% Friday. Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index added 0.1% after rose 0.2% Friday. $200 billion of Chinese products will be subject to tariffs from 12 p.m. Beijing time, on top of the...
The Australian dollar sank and Asian stocks looked set for declines after China on Saturday called off planned trade talks with U.S. officials. The yen pared its initial advance Monday morning, with early moves lower fading for the Australian and New Zealand dollars following the latest development in the trade war. The U.S. and China are hours away from a new round of tariffs on each other™s goods. The yen rose less than 0.1 percent to 112.54 per dollar as of 7:53 a.m....
Asia shares eased in holiday-thinned trading on Monday and the safe haven yen gained as China canceled upcoming tariff talks with the United States, while oil prices jumped after top producers including Russia ruled out boosting crude output. U.S. stock futures were a touch weaker while MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.3 percent. Most of the action was in currencies as financial markets in major Asian centers Japan, China and South Korea were closed for a...
U.S. hiring cooled by more than forecast in March following a strong February while wages picked up and the unemployment rate remained the lowest since 2000, returning labor-market progress to a more sustainable pace that may keep Federal Reserve policy makers on track for further interest-rate increases.
Payrolls rose 103,000, compared with the median estimate of economists for 185,000, after an upwardly revised 326,000 advance, Labor Department figures showed Friday. The jobless rate was 4.1 percent for a sixth month, bucking forecasts for a decline, while average hourly earnings increased 2.7 percent from a year earlier, matching projections.
The results follow strong hiring in 2017 and show an average pace of payrolls growth this year that's still sufficient to push down the unemployment rate, which already is below Fed estimates of levels sustainable in the long run. A pickup in wages -- which has remained elusive in this expansion -- would support consumer spending, though some economists worry it may also spark inflation.
œThe labor market is continuing to strengthen, and we haven't seen a material shift in that, Sam Bullard, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC, said before the report. Even when there's a weak payroll number in one month, œthe Fed and the markets are going to look through it.
At the same time, the specter of a trade war with China is a wild card for the outlook, particularly after President Donald Trump raised tensions by ordering his administration to consider imposing tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese imports.
The slowdown in payroll gains reflected reversals in construction and retail. Construction payrolls fell by 15,000 in March, the first decline since July, following a gain of 65,000 in February. Retailers cut 4,400 workers, following a rise of 47,300 in February.
Source : Bloomberg
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Wall Street and Main Street both look for gold prices to rise this week, based on the weekly Kitco News gold survey. The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting is widely expected to hike interest rates another 25 basis points this week. But that hasn't deterred analysts, who suggest this is already factored into prices. Eighteen market professionals took part in the Wall Street survey. Thirteen respondents, or 72%, predicted higher prices. There were two votes, or 11%, calling for lower...
Oil climbed near the highest level in more than two months as OPEC gave a tepid response to U.S. President Donald Trump's demand that it take rapid action to reduce prices, saying it would boost output only if customers requested it. Futures in New York rose as much as 1.2 percent after a 0.7 percent gain Friday. the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allied producers stopped short of promising specific extra volumes of crude after the group™s meeting...
Gold declines for second day with trade war in focus as U.S. and China hours away from new round of tariffs on each other's goods, and as investors count down to Federal Reserve's policy-setting meeting this week. Bullion for immediate delivery lost 0.3% to $1,196.81/oz by 9:15am in Singapore; fell 0.6% Friday. Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index added 0.1% after rose 0.2% Friday. $200 billion of Chinese products will be subject to tariffs from 12 p.m. Beijing time, on top of the...
The Australian dollar sank and Asian stocks looked set for declines after China on Saturday called off planned trade talks with U.S. officials. The yen pared its initial advance Monday morning, with early moves lower fading for the Australian and New Zealand dollars following the latest development in the trade war. The U.S. and China are hours away from a new round of tariffs on each other™s goods. The yen rose less than 0.1 percent to 112.54 per dollar as of 7:53 a.m....
Asia shares eased in holiday-thinned trading on Monday and the safe haven yen gained as China canceled upcoming tariff talks with the United States, while oil prices jumped after top producers including Russia ruled out boosting crude output. U.S. stock futures were a touch weaker while MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.3 percent. Most of the action was in currencies as financial markets in major Asian centers Japan, China and South Korea were closed for a...