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Crude: Tariff proof oil

By Phil Flynn | August 24, 2018

China is buying our oil and that could be Iran’s worst nightmare. It seems that the Chinese trade talks went nowhere, but despite that fact, China’s demand for U.S. crude oil might rise anyway. According to Reuters “China’s Unipec will resume purchases of U.S. crude oil in October after a two-month halt due to the trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.”

Gold pressurised as dollar extends gains ahead of US CPI

By Fawad Razaqzada | July 12, 2018

The U.S. dollar has resumed its rally after starting the first week of July on the back foot when it was hit by profit-taking following a three-month winning streak. Now that the Dollar Index has turned positive on the month could it finish the month of July higher, too? Investors have been piling in on the dollar because of higher interest rates in the United States and expectations that monetary conditions will tighten further in the coming months.

Blame Canada...

By Phil Flynn | June 11, 2018

A funny thing happened on the road to Singapore. The Group of 7 joint communique was agreed to by all nations until the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau made a statement after President Trump was on the plane going to try to rid the world of the North Korean regime’s nuclear weapons and said that “U.S. tariffs were kind of insulting” and he “will not be pushed around’ set off President Trump and his advisors.

Dollar steady ahead of FOMC while gold inches up

By Lukman Otunuga | May 2, 2018

Today’s main event risk for the dollar, and potential market shaker will be the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s meeting, which is widely expected to conclude with monetary policy left unchanged. Although May’s FOMC meeting will not include a press conference or fresh economic projections, investors should not be quick to expect the meeting to be a “non-event.”

Crude: Good news, bad news

By Phil Flynn | February 5, 2018

Crude oil and the stock market took great red-hot economic news and tried to turn it into bad news. Red hot economic data, unlike anything we have seen in years, raised fears that the Federal Reserve would have to move quickly and raise interest rates. Yet, what the economic data is saying about potential future energy demand is almost mindboggling and the fracker better get fracking as we may have a hard time meeting future demand.

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