Gold steady after snapping 4-week losing streak
Gold futures were little changed Monday, holding steady after snapping a run of four straight weekly declines, as investors awaited testimony this week by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.Price action Gold for April delivery GC00, +0.16% GCJ23, +0.16% rose $2.60, or 0.1%, to $1,857.20 an ounce. May silver SIK23, -0.01% was up 3.2 cents, or […]
Gold futures mark first gain in 6 sessions
Gold futures finished higher on Monday, with prices bouncing back after posting declines for five consecutive sessions. “We have seen quite a shift in market direction in favour of the dollar and yields, with most foreign currencies, gold, and US equities falling out of favour,” said Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at City Index and […]
Gold futures end higher, with the U.S. dollar lower in the wake of Powell’s remarks
Gold futures climbed on Tuesday, posting a second straight session gain, with prices finding support from some weakness in the U.S. dollar as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke at the Economic Club of Washington. Powell said that the U.S. jobs report released Friday shows that the Fed needs to keep raising interest rates, but […]
Gold prices finish higher after falling to a 3-week low
Gold prices finished a bit higher on Monday after tumbling to their lowest level in three weeks following Friday’s surprisingly strong jobs report, which helped send Treasury yields and the dollar higher to the detriment of the yellow metal. Price action Gold for April delivery GC00, +0.19% GCJ23, +0.19% rose $2.90, or nearly 0.2%, to […]
Shares of Adani-linked companies slump as Indian conglomerate issues defense to short-seller claims
Stocks of affiliated companies founded by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani continued to fall in Mumbai markets on Friday, extending a slide after a U.S. short seller published its two-year investigation into the group’s business practices. The shares of flagship firm Adani Enterprises 512599, -18.52% sank as much as 20% and other linked companies saw […]
Gold ticks higher, heading for 5th straight weekly advance
Gold ticked higher early Friday, with the yellow metal on track for a fifth straight weekly gain as investors monitor falling bond yields and fears of an economic downturn.Price action Gold for February delivery GC00, +0.10% GCG23, +0.10% rose $6, or 0.3%, to $1,930 an ounce on Comex, on track for a weekly rise of […]
U.S. industrial output falls sharply in December, sparking talk of factory ‘recession’
The number: U.S. industrial production fell 0.7% in December, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. It is the biggest monthly decline since September 2021. The decline was steeper than economists expectations of a 0.1% decline, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal. Output in November was revised down to a 0.6% drop, much worse […]
Why gold prices may be headed for record highs this year
Gold recently climbed to its highest prices in nearly seven months, feeding expectations that the precious metal is on track to notch record highs this year, after closing out 2022 with a modest loss.Gold “noticeably” appreciated by about $200 an ounce from November to the end of last year, and continued that trend in the […]