Gold slid 1% on Friday as strong U.S. jobs data renewed bets the Federal Reserve would hold pat on interest rates and boosted demand for riskier assets, while supply-squeezed palladium soared to a new record high. U.S. job growth increased by the most in 10 months in November, confirming that the economy remained on a moderate expansion path despite a prolonged manufacturing slump. Spot gold slipped 1% to $1,461.01 per ounce. U.S. gold futures settled down 1.1% at $1,465.1 per...
Oil futures settled higher on Friday, with U.S. prices up more than 7% for the week to mark their highest weekly percentage climb since June. Prices got a lift after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies announced an agreement to cut production by an additional 500,000 barrels a day starting in January. Including the 1.2 million barrels in reductions under the current pact, that will bring total output cuts to 1.7 million barrels a day from October 2018...
Hong Kong closed more than one percent higher Friday, boosted by renewed hopes that China and the United States will eventually reach a partial trade deal. The Hang Seng index added 1.07 percent, or 281.33 points, to 26,498.37. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 0.43 percent, or 12.54 points, to 2,912.01 and the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, rose 0.82 percent, or 13.36 points, to 1,640.33. Source : AFP
U.S. stocks closed solidly higher Friday, helping to wipe out or chip away at weekly losses, after an key employment report for November ignited bullish buying on Wall Street, adding to some modest progress toward a partial Sino-American trade agreement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 337 points, or 1.2%, to reach 28,015, the S&P 500 index advanced 0.9% to 3,146, while the Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 1% to 8,656. The moves on Friday were in contrast to trading that started the...
U.S. stocks soared after a much better-than-expected employment report for November from the Labor Department which saw the economy create 266,000 new jobs, the most since January, and the unemployment rote fell to 3.5%, a 50 year low. However, progress toward a partial U.S. - China trade deal remains a point of focus for market participants also as a deadline that will see import duties increased on Dec. 15 looms. Late morning the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 312 points, or 1.1%, at...
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept rates unchanged on Thursday “ in what marks Mario Draghi™s last monetary policy meeting at the bank.
The Frankfurt-based central bank had announced last month a massive stimulus package to boost the euro area. This included a 10 basis point cut to the deposit rate, new lending conditions to commercial banks as well as a second round of quantitative easing.
Draghi™s decision sparked some division within the central bank. Minutes from the meeting revealed that some of Draghi™s colleagues were not on board with the decision.
Mario Draghi will leave the European Central Bank (ECB) after eight years in charge of the institution that changed the way monetary policy is conducted in the euro zone.
Source: CNBC
Australia™s central bank kept interest rates unchanged as it waits for three cuts since June to flow through to areas of the economy beyond the property market. Reserve Bank Governor ...
The European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde, testifying before the European Parliament this Monday, said that the region's economic growth remains weak and this weakness has been mainl...
Spending for disaster relief, concern over impact of global slowdown in Japan's economy should be better addressed by govt with fiscal, structural policies. Fiscal space for japanese government is so...
While delivering a key note address at the European Banking Congress, in Frankfurt, on Friday, the new European Central Bank (ECB) President Lagarde said: œWe face a global environment that is marke...
Federal Reserve officials were more upbeat about the economy in late October than they had been only six weeks earlier, according to minutes of their policy discussion released Wednesday. Officials â...
Gold slid 1% on Friday as strong U.S. jobs data renewed bets the Federal Reserve would hold pat on interest rates and boosted demand for riskier assets, while supply-squeezed palladium soared to a new record high. U.S. job growth increased by the most in 10 months in November, confirming that the economy remained on a moderate expansion path despite a prolonged manufacturing slump. Spot gold slipped 1% to $1,461.01 per ounce. U.S. gold futures settled down 1.1% at $1,465.1 per...
Oil futures settled higher on Friday, with U.S. prices up more than 7% for the week to mark their highest weekly percentage climb since June. Prices got a lift after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies announced an agreement to cut production by an additional 500,000 barrels a day starting in January. Including the 1.2 million barrels in reductions under the current pact, that will bring total output cuts to 1.7 million barrels a day from October 2018...
Hong Kong closed more than one percent higher Friday, boosted by renewed hopes that China and the United States will eventually reach a partial trade deal. The Hang Seng index added 1.07 percent, or 281.33 points, to 26,498.37. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 0.43 percent, or 12.54 points, to 2,912.01 and the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, rose 0.82 percent, or 13.36 points, to 1,640.33. Source : AFP
U.S. stocks closed solidly higher Friday, helping to wipe out or chip away at weekly losses, after an key employment report for November ignited bullish buying on Wall Street, adding to some modest progress toward a partial Sino-American trade agreement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 337 points, or 1.2%, to reach 28,015, the S&P 500 index advanced 0.9% to 3,146, while the Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 1% to 8,656. The moves on Friday were in contrast to trading that started the...
U.S. stocks soared after a much better-than-expected employment report for November from the Labor Department which saw the economy create 266,000 new jobs, the most since January, and the unemployment rote fell to 3.5%, a 50 year low. However, progress toward a partial U.S. - China trade deal remains a point of focus for market participants also as a deadline that will see import duties increased on Dec. 15 looms. Late morning the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 312 points, or 1.1%, at...