Gold Gold prices are hedging down during early Friday trading, but still look set to end the week in the green, as the sentiment in the markets remains under the influence of the war in Ukraine. The price of the precious metal retreated from the maximums reached earlier in the week, as the scope for…
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Gold Gold prices dropped below $2,000 per ounce during Wednesday’s session and continued the hedge down during early Thursday trading. Risk appetite improved in the financial markets, as oil prices retreated from multi-year highs, following calls for the stepping up of oil production in countries with spare capacity. Despite the continuation of the geopolitical risks…
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Gold Gold prices remain firmly supported above $2,000 dollars per ounce during early Wednesday trading, Demand for the precious metal increased as the geopolitical risk grew in Eastern Europe, with its price spiking on Tuesday and coming close to the all-time high reached in August 2020. The performance of gold will remain strongly linked to…
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Gold Gold prices hit a fresh 18-month high during early Tuesday trading, reaching $2,020. The precious metal may soon test the all-time maximum of $2,075, reached in August 2020, as the flight to safety intensifies. The economic fallout from the war in Ukraine is worrying market operators, with the growing likelihood of Russian oil and…
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Gold Gold prices are rising during early Friday trading, as flows towards haven assets increases. Developments in Ukraine continue to influence the levels of risk appetite in the markets, with the latest being the Russian attacks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which raised the levels of anxiety amongst market operators. As the war continues…
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Gold Gold is trading flat at the opening of Thursday's European session, as investors play a balancing act by factoring in the heightened geostrategic risk posed by the ongoing war in Ukraine on one side and the measurement of the Fed’s approach to tighten monetary policy on the other. Russia’s belligerence continues to generate concern…
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European Shares Shares edged mostly higher in Europe on Tuesday, as investors’ focus gets back to macro data and earnings while waiting for more development from Eastern Europe. Benchmarks climbed in early trading, as traders welcomed positive Manufacturing PMI figures from China overnight, and await ECB President Christine Lagarde’s speech for more clues on monetary…
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Oil Brent oil prices are trading above 100 dollars a barrel for the second consecutive day, despite having retraced some of the gains recorded during the previous session and earlier on Friday, too. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is behind the latest escalation in prices, as the expected repercussions of the conflict over global oil…
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Oil Brent crude oil prices rose above $100 for the first time since 2014 during early Thursday trading, with the cost of the barrel climbing more than 5% as Russia started it’s invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s intentions to launch a military attack on its neighbour had been called out over the last few weeks by…
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European Shares European shares climbed on Tuesday as most benchmarks register corrective bullish moves following Monday’s massive sell-off on equity markets. Ukraine-Russia tensions continue to simmer and dent market sentiment this week, especially after President Putin ordered military forces to what he recognized as “separatist areas”, leading the current conflict to another dimension. With geopolitical…
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