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Last week was a week of two halves as far as precious metals were concerned. The first half a dire one for bulls, but the second seeing new buyers tempted into the market, with Thursday’s impressive gold rally setting the stage for a recovery back above $1,600. Silver is still trading around $28.50, with $30 a key short-term target ...
The gold price has bounced back in some fashion over the last 24 hours, hurtling back above $1,550 and now probing the $1,600 mark. Silver is also on a tear and is back trading around $28.50. One swallow doesn’t make a summer, however, and given the continuing eurozone tensions – which now include confirmation that the ...
Several weeks ago in this column I commented on the release of Federal Reserve minutes and the likelihood of further quantitative easing in the United States. While some of the Fed governors commented that further easing would not be necessary because of perceived strength in the economy, they did acknowledge that if the pace of economic ...
Last week, an Austrian-School economist, Robert Wenzel, gave a speech to the New York Federal Reserve, and separately Bloomberg hosted a television debate between Ron Paul, who is running for the Republican Presidential nomination, and Professor Paul Krugman, one of the foremost advocates of Keynesian economic policy. The debate between ...
“Steady as she goes” was the message from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a press conference yesterday following the Fed’s latest Open Market Committee meeting. Though the FOMC once again reiterated its commitment to keeping interest rates at 0.25% until late 2014, Bernanke appeared to scotch rumours of new ...
On April 3 the Federal Reserve released minutes from its March meeting, which the markets interpreted as downplaying the probability of imminent stimulus measures. While different Fed officials place different emphasis on the likelihood of more easing, they are all in basic agreement that the decision on further monetary stimulus is based ...
We got a classic example of how “jawboning” by Federal Reserve officials can move markets yesterday, with New York Fed President William Dudley and Bernanke’s deputy Janet Yellen both sounding cautious about the US recovery –Yellen noting that “further easing could be warranted if the recovery proceeds at a ...
Europe is firmly back in the news again, with the European Central Bank hinting that it may resort to further easing measures in order to relieve the pressure on Spain. Benoit Coeure, executive director at the European Central Bank, pointedly noted yesterday that market fears over economic problems in Spain were "not justified". ...
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