NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Just in case any of the global central bankers and finance ministers gathered in Indonesia missed the message delivered repeatedly this week, the host nation said it again on Friday: Everyone stands to lose if trade wars are allowed to escalate. Indonesian President Joko Widodo didn’t mention the United States or China, the world’s two largest econ...Read More
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The euro zone’s continuing expansion has vindicated European Central Bank policy but risks to the outlook, from trade protectionism to the threat of a hard Brexit, are on the rise, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Friday.The ECB has been dialing back stimulus for months and expects to end a 2.6 trillion euro asset purchase scheme in December, arguing that it...Read More
Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More
Gold has broken out to the upside.The big question from here is can it hold? The answer is not an easy one butthe simple fact that gold has been consolidating for months, continued to makehigher lows and finally pushed through $1,220 suggest the answer is yes.This is the time when traders andinvestors get confused about who and what they are. As a trader, if you arelong gold as a trade, you should...Read More
Mr. Christian Milau reportsEQUINOX GOLD CLOSES US$75 MILLION EQUITY FINANCING FOR ACQUISITION OF MESQUITE GOLD MINEFurther to the news release dated Sept. 19, 2018, announcing the company's intention to acquire the Mesquite gold mine in California, Equinox Gold Corp. has closed the brokered and non-brokered private placements of subscription receipts at a price of 95 cents per subscription receipt...Read More
* Aluminium holds above band of technical support * Shanghai zinc inventories jump 48.5 pct over two weeks (Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Aluminium rebounded on Friday,breaking a six-session losing streak, as speculators andconsumers regarded the lower prices as good value against abackground of recovering share markets.The metal touched a two-week low on Thu...Read More
* Dollar recovers as equities gain, Fed hikes in focus * Euro declines as ECB's Draghi moderates inflation outlook * Yen, Swiss franc attract modest safe-haven demand * Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 (Adds detail, updates prices)By Tom FinnLONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The dollar edged up on Friday,reflecting investor confidence in the U.S. economy, despitecriticism by President Donald Trump of the...Read More
* Spot gold on track for biggest weekly gain in seven * Could extend gains to $1,237/oz -technicals * Palladium off eight-month highs hit on Thursday (Updates prices, adds comment.)By Sethuraman N RBENGALURU, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Gold fell on Friday,retreating from two-month highs hit in the previous session, asglobal equity markets recovered some poise after dramaticlosses. Spot gold was down 0.4 p...Read More
Canadian junior Rusoro Mining (TSX-V: RML), which in March scored a major victory in its international arbitration complaint against Venezuela, has accepted the almost $1.3 billion offered by the country's government as settlement for the seizure of the company's gold projects.The deal gives Venezuela Rusoro's mining data and forces it to fully release the arbitral award issued in favour of the mi...Read More
BERLIN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The German government will onlyassess Italy's budget plans once Rome has submitted them toBrussels, a spokeswoman for the German Finance Ministry said onFriday.The Italian government has already issued the financialtargets that will provide the framework for its budget, drawingfire from the European Commission for plans to triple theprevious fiscal deficit goal for 2019....Read More
* G20 can only provide platform for talks on trade -chairman * Adds members must resolve trade frictions themselves * Japan wants to put global imbalance on next year's G20agenda (Adds quotes, detail)By Leika Kihara and Yawen ChenNUSA DUA, Indonesia, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Trade tensionswithin the Group of 20 leading industrialised and emergingeconomies could only be solved by the countries directlyin...Read More
MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble firmed to itsten day high supported by a recovery in oil prices and weakerU.S. dollar that was pressed by declining U.S. treasury yieldsand a sell-off on the global markets.At 0756 GMT, the rouble was 0.46 percent stronger againstthe dollar at 65.96 , hitting its highest levelsince Oct. 3 at 65.85, and had gained 0.41 percent to trade at76.50 versus th...Read More
LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Britain will need a period ofcontinuity after the Brexit transition ends and before along-term partnership negotiated between London and Brusselscomes into force, Britain's finance minister said on Friday."We're not going to remain in anything indefinitely," PhilipHammond told Bloomberg Television on the sidelines of anInternational Monetary Fund meeting in Bal...Read More
Christopher Lewis22 hours agoSilver markets were extraordinarily bullish during the trading session on Thursday, as we reached towards the $14.50 level. That’s an area that of course will offer a lot of support and resistance, as we had sold off from that area rather drastically, but we had a little bit of a pullback only to turn around and slam back into it. If we can clear the impulsive c...Read More
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The South African randfirmed against the globally hobbled dollar early on Friday aheadof the country's credit review announcement by ratings agencyMoody's later in the day.* The rand was 0.85 percent stronger at 14.5100 perdollar at 0650 GMT, having closed in New York at 14.6350. * The rand is expected to trade between 14.3500 and 14.7000to thedollar on Friday, NKC...Read More
Gold is flashing red in Asia, possibly due to an uptick in the US equity index futures. The oversold safe haven found love this week as the sell-off in the US equities triggered a flight to safety. Technically speaking, the metal's bull breakout would gain more credence above the 100-day exponential moving average (EMA). Gold is losing altitude in Asia, having clocked a ten-week high of...Read More
Is a "Blue Wave" building?Something strange is happening in America.Millions of Americans are furious - and this time, they're taking their anger out on Republicans.All across America, 45 Republicans have lost elections during Trump's presidency in places they shouldn't have possibly been able to lose... even in districts where Trump won in a landslide and remains popular.In the last few months al...Read More
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Too many euro zonecountries are missing the opportunity to reduce debt now, wheneconomic growth is good, to prepare for the next economicdownturn, the head of the International Monetary Fund's Europeandepartment Poul Thomsen said."Fiscal policy has been insufficiently counter-cyclical,"Thomsen told a news conference at the IMF's annual meetings inB...Read More
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG, Oct 12 (Reuters) - China's onshore yuancurrency weakened against the dollar on Friday morning asunexpectedly strong China exports data renewed anxiety over theSino-U.S. trade war.The weakness followed a jump in late trading on Thursday,spurred by news that Washington will not accuse Beijing ofcurrency manipulation - seen as a sign of easing tensions. The People's Bank of China...Read More
* China's Sept unwrought copper imports at 521,000 T-customs * Open arbitrage to send metal to China swells shipments-analyst * Copper concs imports at new record high of 1.93 mln T (Adds background, analyst quote)By Tom DalyBEIJING, Oct 12 (Reuters) - China's unwrought copper importssurged to their highest in 2-1/2 years in September, whilecopper concentrate imports climbed an all-time high as th...Read More