Category: Liquidity

April 1, 2020

Gold futures were attempting to regain some traction higher on Wednesday to start the new month and quarter, amid expectations of increasingly poor economic data due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has helped to partly support gold buying or at […]

March 25, 2020

U.S. Treasury yields edged up in choppy trading on early Wednesday as investors struggled to balance news of a $2 trillion fiscal stimulus package agreement against broader worries about the ongoing infection rate and death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

March 24, 2020

Gold prices were on track to surge by the most in more than a decade as the precious metal extended its rally to start the week, following the closure of gold mining operations and moves by the Federal Reserve to […]

March 19, 2020

U.S. stock-index futures traded lower Thursday in seesaw price action after the European Central Bank in a late-night move rolled out an expanded asset-purchase program and the Federal Reserve announced a facility to backstop money-market mutual funds. What are major […]

March 16, 2020

Investors and traders around the world were anxiously waiting on Monday to see if the U.S. Federal Reserve’s sweeping moves Sunday to inject additional liquidity into the economy would restore normal market conditions. The Fed’s goal is not to save […]

March 12, 2020

In December 1996 then-Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan gave his famous “irrational exuberance” speech, in which he questioned hot stock prices and extended valuations following a bull market that began in the early-1980s. While prices in the dot-com bubble did […]

March 10, 2020

Gold futures pulled back on Tuesday as stocks looked to rebound from their steepest one-day loss since 2008 and as government bond yields jumped off their historic lows seen after a coronavirus and crude-oil sparked plunge. A number of gold […]

March 6, 2020

Investors are expecting the U.S. Federal Reserve — and other central banks globally — to do more to rescue the global economy from a downturn caused by the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The Fed lowered its benchmark rate by 50 basis […]

March 5, 2020

Just past 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Victoria Fernandez, chief market strategist at Crossmark Global Investments, was watching the 10-year Treasury make history. And wondering when people would realize how bad it was. “It’s at .93,” she said as the yield […]

February 24, 2020

Renewed fears that the coronavirus will harm global growth rocked commodity markets again on Monday, with oil and metals prices tumbling while gold soared toward $1,700 an ounce amid a flight to haven assets. As the deadly virus spreads more […]