Gold prices climbed Friday, buoyed by weakness in the dollar and a fall in bond yields, as traders struggled to sort out news that China has agreed to the text of a phase one trade deal with United States. Against that backdrop, February gold rose $3.70, or 0.3%, at $1,476 an ounce, set to more than recover its loss from Thursday. March silver meanwhile, shed 1.9 cents, or 0.1%, to $16.93 an ounce, after four consecutive sessions of gains. Among other metals on Comex, March copper fell 0.5%...
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index drops a second week as riskier assets gain after U.S.-China agree on a phase-one trade deal and the U.K.™s Conservative Party wins a crushing majority in Thursday™s election. USD/JPY up 0.3% to 109.63 GBP/USD rallies by 2.7% to 1.3514, strongest since May 2018 before paring the advance; flows are nearly 10 times the average for the past month, as they now come two-way with a slight preference to fade dips, according to two traders in...
Gold prices were steady on Friday as a weaker dollar helped offset pressures from an increased appetite for riskier assets following reports of a breakthrough in China-U.S. trade negotiations, while palladium scaled a fresh peak. Spot gold fell 0.1% to $1,467.20 per ounce by 0452 GMT, but was up about 0.5% so far this week. U.S. gold futures were down 0.1% at $1,471.60. Sources said on Thursday U.S. negotiators were offering to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as 50% and...
Gold held its own on Friday as investors weighed bullion™s merits heading into 2020 after the U.S. and China managed a breakthrough in their bitter and drawn out trade dispute, with the commodity™s initial losses driven by weaker haven demand offset by a slump in the dollar. Bullion fluctuated after President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one deal with China, averting the introduction of more U.S. tariffs, according to people familiar with the matter. Traders were also watching...
Hong Kong stocks jumped more than two percent Friday after reports said China and the US had finally reached a partial trade agreement that will see Washington cancel tariffs due to be imposed at the weekend. The Hang Seng index soared 2.57 percent, or 693.62 points, to 27,687.76. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 1.78 percent, or 51.98 points, to 2,967.68 and the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, rallied 1.48 percent, or 24.22 points, to...
NATO and Russia did not make any breakthroughs on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in talks at the alliance headquarters, NATO's secretary-general said.
"We did not see any sign of Russia being willing to come back into compliance with the INF treaty," Jens Stoltenberg told reporters Friday in Brussels after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council.
Stoltenberg said the chances of a resolution on a landmark Cold War arms treaty were "going down, day by day" but that NATO had not given up on its efforts to try to persuade Moscow to destroy the SSC-8 land-based cruise missile with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,400 miles).
Moscow says it is fully in compliance with the INF treaty negotiated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the two countries.
The United States is set to pull out of the treaty on August 2, arguing that it needs to develop its own warheads to deter Moscow, after Russia's last-minute decision not to destroy the medium-range missile that NATO says violates the INF.
Source : VOA
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Gold prices climbed Friday, buoyed by weakness in the dollar and a fall in bond yields, as traders struggled to sort out news that China has agreed to the text of a phase one trade deal with United States. Against that backdrop, February gold rose $3.70, or 0.3%, at $1,476 an ounce, set to more than recover its loss from Thursday. March silver meanwhile, shed 1.9 cents, or 0.1%, to $16.93 an ounce, after four consecutive sessions of gains. Among other metals on Comex, March copper fell 0.5%...
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index drops a second week as riskier assets gain after U.S.-China agree on a phase-one trade deal and the U.K.™s Conservative Party wins a crushing majority in Thursday™s election. USD/JPY up 0.3% to 109.63 GBP/USD rallies by 2.7% to 1.3514, strongest since May 2018 before paring the advance; flows are nearly 10 times the average for the past month, as they now come two-way with a slight preference to fade dips, according to two traders in...
Gold prices were steady on Friday as a weaker dollar helped offset pressures from an increased appetite for riskier assets following reports of a breakthrough in China-U.S. trade negotiations, while palladium scaled a fresh peak. Spot gold fell 0.1% to $1,467.20 per ounce by 0452 GMT, but was up about 0.5% so far this week. U.S. gold futures were down 0.1% at $1,471.60. Sources said on Thursday U.S. negotiators were offering to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as 50% and...
Gold held its own on Friday as investors weighed bullion™s merits heading into 2020 after the U.S. and China managed a breakthrough in their bitter and drawn out trade dispute, with the commodity™s initial losses driven by weaker haven demand offset by a slump in the dollar. Bullion fluctuated after President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one deal with China, averting the introduction of more U.S. tariffs, according to people familiar with the matter. Traders were also watching...
Hong Kong stocks jumped more than two percent Friday after reports said China and the US had finally reached a partial trade agreement that will see Washington cancel tariffs due to be imposed at the weekend. The Hang Seng index soared 2.57 percent, or 693.62 points, to 27,687.76. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 1.78 percent, or 51.98 points, to 2,967.68 and the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, rallied 1.48 percent, or 24.22 points, to...