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Gold, franc, yen and oil spike higher after Israel strikes IranBut gains are pared after retaliatory response seen to be limitedStocks head deeper into the red after disappointing tech earningsMarkets...

Gold Continues to Rise as Tensions in the Middle East EscalateThe gold (XAU) price held steady near 2,400 on Thursday as persistent tensions in the Middle East offset the negative impact of tight US...

Oil and gold jumped on rising geopolitical tensions after Israel struck targets in western Iran as a response to last weekend’s attacks. One of the concerned cities is Isfahan, home to several...

by Jack FischerDuring LSEG Lipper’s fund-flows week that ended April 17, 2024, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the fourth...

It’s late, but market action compels me to do a post. Thanks to what is apparently a massive attack from Israel against Iraq and Syria, the S&P 500 futures are collapsing:The NASDAQ is...

The only aspect of consistency in the market’s outlook for rate cuts lately has been pushing the expected date forward. Recent history falls in line with this trend and September is now seen as...

Euro edges higher despite continued hawkish commentary from Fed officialsGeopolitical developments cast doubt on ECB June rate cutYen fails to make considerable gains as market looks to Friday’s...

The big story of yesterday was the disappointing results from the biggest European company, ASML Holding (AS:ASML) (NASDAQ:{{39320|ASML} }), which sells equipment to chipmakers so that they could...

We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high.Many...

Stocks remain under pressure as Fedspeak and US data dent rate cuts chancesDollar remains dominant against both the euro and the yenUK inflation surprises on the upside; the pound tries to rallyA...

Gold Remains Elevated on Worries About Tensions in the Middle East The gold (XAU) price moved within $2,364–$2,397 on Tuesday but finished the day essentially unchanged. The precious metals...

This is one of my favorites, and every few years I re-blog some portion of this article. The original, I wrote in 2010. The basic question is, what is the correct way to respond as an investor to...

Stocks traded mostly sideways yesterday, even as rates and the dollar surged. However, the big news came yesterday when Jay Powell noted that it would take longer for the Fed to gain the confidence...

He said it. Federal Reserve (Fed) President Jerome Powell said that the Fed may delay its first rate cut due to the lack of progress in cooling inflation following a rapid decline observed by the end...