Copper prices have been falling over recent weeks over global recession worries. As central banks around the world pivot towards hiking interest rates quickly they risk doing so at the expense of slowing growth. WIth inflation being high many investors…
Gold has been touted as a stagflationary asset, but gold has been falling steadily since March highs. The increasingly aggressive Fed rate hiking expectations and risk off trading has kept the USD bid. Furthermore, the push higher in yields since…
Gold tends to gain in a high inflation environment and many portfolios contain gold as an inflation hedge. Some of the reasons for gold sideways price action in recent weeks has been the fact that inflationary pressures have kept rising…
One of the nicknames for Copper is, ‘Dr Copper’. This is because the health of the global economy is often signalled by how copper prices are doing. When the global economy is growing, copper tends to gain in prices. On…
Analysts see reasons for a very tight copper market over coming years. This is in part due to the way that copper is mined. The mining process is costly and demand for copper is set to only grow due to…
PDF Download (GERMAN) Article in German You may be wondering why the price of gold has not taken off as inflation rises sharply. After all, despite initial increases, interest rates are now well below the rate of inflation – and…
The Federal Reserve meet tonight and the markets are weighing up what the Fed will do. A 50 bps rate hike is expected, but will they hike rates by 75bps? Headline inflation is surging, but will the Fed decide to…
Last Friday markets were shocked with the latest inflation print showing that inflation in the US was continuing to track even higher. Investors are now growing more and more concerned that inflation may be here to stay like it did…
Crude oil has gained to start the week as Saudi Arabia demonstrated its confidence in oil demand with a larger than expected price increase in Asia. Saudi Aramco increased its prices to Asia for July by raising its light crude…
One of the key data points for US policy is set to be released on Wednesday 11 may at 13:30. That is the US inflation data. The headline is expected to come in at 8.1% y/y and the core reading…
