New Delhi: Gold in the national capital on Wednesday rose by Rs 264 to Rs 45,123 per 10 gram with recovery in global precious metal prices along with rupee depreciation, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had settled at Rs 44,859 per 10 gram. Silver also jumped Rs 362 to
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Dollar is generally strong today, but buying focus is temporarily shifted from against Yen to Euro and Sterling. In particular, EUR/USD has taken out key support level at 1.1663. Overall markets are mixed though, with stocks recovering while treasury yields retreat. Yen and Swiss Franc are the stronger ones for today followed by the greenback.
A bit of a messy start to the session Cable fell to fresh lows since January moments ago but has quickly bounced from 1.3505 to 1.3540 levels now with AUD/USD also having trimmed earlier gains in a fall to 0.7235 only to climb back up to a session high of 0.7265 in the past few
NEW DELHI: Bucking global trends, gold and silver futures rose on Wednesday. Gains were, however, limited by a rise in the dollar and US Treasury yields on growing expectations of an earlier-than-anticipated interest rate liftoff. The dollar index hovered near a more than 10-month high touched on Tuesday. The benchmark US 10-year Treasury yields held
Sterling tumbles broadly today on increasing talks of energy shortages due to a post-Brexit shortage of truck drivers, as well as a halt to license testing during pandemic lockdowns. Mild risk aversion, which start in European markets, is also weighing down some commodity currencies. Nevertheless, there is little lift to Yen overall, which stays weak
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Mumbai: National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) on Tuesday said it has migrated its live trade data centre to Yotta Infrastructure Solutions. The partnership with Yotta has made NCDEX the country’s first and only exchange to operate from an Uptime-certified Tier-IV data centre, the commodity exchange said in a statement. “We are excited to partner
Strong rally in treasury yields is currently the main theme driving the markets. On the back on hawkish Fed rhetorics, 2-year yield rose to 18-month high, above 0.3%. Benchmark 10-year yield also breaks above 1.5% handle. Yen is currently the worst performing one, with persistent selling pressure. Euro and Swiss Franc are also weak. On
TOKYO: Oil markets climbed for a sixth day on Tuesday, reversing earlier losses, on fears over tight supply while surging prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and coal also lent support. Brent crude futures gained $1.05, or 1.3%, to $80.58 a barrel at 0645 GMT, after reaching its highest since October 2018 at $80.75 earlier
Tech stocks hit the hardest European indices are down to fresh lows in the opening 40 minutes, with the Stoxx 600 index now down by 0.9%. This comes as higher yields is starting to weigh more broadly on sentiment, with US futures also being dragged lower. Nasdaq futures are down 1.2% while S&P 500 futures
European gas price has kept breaking new records over the past months. Both higher-than-usual demand and supply shortage have led to the price strength. As winter is approaching, we expect price to remain at elevated levels in the months to come. The front-month Dutch TTF gas contract has remained firm after breaking above EUR 70/MWh.
It’s shocking how quickly this has spiraled out of control At the moment, it’s tough to even keep on top of all the energy problems in the world. This is a crisis that I saw building but I’m continually surprised at how hard it’s hitting. Back on September 13 — just two weeks ago —
NEW DELHI: If you thought equities are a breakout story this year, then you may have missed the real money-making opportunity. There is one commodity that has come out of stupor and shocked everyone with the ferocity of its rally. That counter is natural gas. Natural gas spot prices have more than doubled since early
Canadian Dollar leads commodity currencies higher in Asian session, with help from extended rally in oil price. Overall sentiment is mixed though and Yen is trying to pare back some of last week’s losses. Some weakness in seen in both European majors and Dollar but movements in respective pairs are limited. Euro is also stuck
China’s power crunch a hot topic to start the week The State Grid is promising to meet household electricity demands and to ensure that there is sufficient power supply to avoid outages as much as possible. From earlier: Invest in yourself. See our forex education hub. The power crunch in China is going to have
NEW DELHI: Gold and silver futures rose on Monday as persistent concerns over the fate of debt-laden property giant China Evergrande and its broader impact bolstered the precious metal’s safe-haven appeal. Evergrande missed a payment on offshore bonds last week, with further payment due this week. This sent shivers down the spine of equity investors
The Fed turned more hawkish in September, with the first rate hike pushed forward to 2022. Fed Chair Jerome Powell indicated that QE tapering will come “soon”. The staff downgraded the GDP growth forecast for this year, but revised higher that for 2022 and 2023. Inflation projections were revised higher all the way through to
On Sunday, the diesel price was raised by 25 paise per litre, marking the second hike in rates after state-owned oil corporations abandoned a three-week rate freeze after worldwide oil prices surged to their highest level since 2018. According to a price statement from state-owned fuel dealers, the price of diesel has been raised to