Gold futures finished higher Thursday, recouping much of the losses suffered a day earlier, as traders awaited monthly domestic employment data due at the end of the week, which may influence haven demand for the precious metal. Gold for February delivery on Comex added $2.90, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,483.10 an ounce, following a loss of 0.3% on Wednesday. March silver rose 14.3 cents, or 0.9%, to $17.059 an ounce, on the back of a 1.9% loss a day earlier. January platinum declined 0.1% to...
Oil held firm in Asian trading Thursday after surging on increasing optimism for a U.S.-China trade deal, a sharp drawdown in U.S. crude inventories, and as OPEC and its allies prepared to discuss extending or possibly deepening output limits. Futures in New York were little changed after surging 4.2% on Wednesday. The U.S. and China are moving closer to agreeing on the amount of tariffs that would be rolled back in a phase-one trade deal, people familiar with the talks said. That...
Hong Kong stocks tumbled Wednesday after Donald Trump poured cold water on trade talks with China, indicating a hoped-for phase-one agreement might not be concluded until after next year's presidential election. The Hang Seng index sank 1.25 per cent, or 328.74 points, to 26,062.56. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.23 per cent, or 6.58 points, to 2,878.12 but the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, rose 0.20 per cent, or 3.19 points, to...
Oil sputtered near $58 a barrel as the OPEC+ coalition failed to pin down the details of an agreement to adjust its official output target even after six hours of talks in Vienna. Futures were little changed in New York after gyrating throughout the previous session. While the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is nearing a deal to cut production targets by 500,000 barrels a day, ministers left the cartel™s headquarters on Thursday without cementing an agreement....
Gold was little changed after see-sawing this week as investors assessed the latest optimism surrounding progress on a trade deal between the U.S. and China, and a lower-than-expected U.S. jobs report. The two countries are moving closer to a phase-one pact despite tensions over Hong Kong and Xinjiang, according to a report Wednesday. That revived risk-on sentiment, which had been curbed earlier this week after President Donald Trump downplayed the urgency of an...
U.S. stocks fell slightly on Thursday as investors digested mixed headlines on the progress of trade negotiations, with reports saying that China had invited American negotiators to Beijing for face-to-face talks, even though the U.S. Congress passed a bill supporting protesters in Hong Kong late Wednesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 67 points, or 0.2%, to 27,754. The S&P 500 was down 7 points, or 0.2%, to 3,102. The Nasdaq Composite retreated 22 points, or 0.3%, to 8,505.
On Wednesday, the Dow Industrials fell 112.93 points, or 0.4%, to close at 27,821, while the S&P 500 lost 0.4% to end at 3,108.46. The Nasdaq Composite, which briefly traded above the neutral line in the late morning, closed 0.5% lower at 8,526.73.
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