Tag Archives: Commodities & Futures

Ever since the geopolitical tensions in the Middle East where top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani died, the incident is the main explainer for why gold reached six-year highs. Now when in the recent days the Swiss Franc is surging, Goldman Sachs Co-Head of Global Foreign Exchange Zach Pandl believes it could be because it may be being used as a proxy for gold. He says that CHF follows gold in terms of price swings. Pandl said that on Monday morning it was trading around...

The geopolitical tensions are high as Iran said that it will no longer abide by uranium enrichment limits and Donald Trump has claimed to attack them like “they’ve never been before”.While this is happening, WTI oil prices increased by as much as 2% overnight (and it is quite impressive, right?) as Brent Crude topped $70 per barrel. Since September this is the first time that such a situation has happened. Also, it’s worth mentioning that gold managed to almost reach $1,600/ounce which is the...

Gold bugs certainly have had quite the field year in 2019. The price of gold, even though it’s had ups and downs like pretty much every other asset, has still brought in significant year-to-date (YTD) returns so far. The price behavior might be seen by gold bugs, especially those who are anti-Bitcoin, has a feather in the yellow metal’s hat, against Bitcoin, especially recently.2019 was an interesting year because of quite a few factors. These factors including trade problems, cross-border...

Commodity markets dictate the global trade of primary manufactured products, from cocoa to gold and from sugar to oil. As these tangible good cross the vast oceans, borne along by capacious container ships, trading platforms flicker with the constantly moving prices of these assets, whose real-time market value is dictated by the usual forces: supply, demand, sanctions, geopolitical relations, currency rates and the array of other variables that can dictate the final price paid for containers...

This week, gold has been enjoying a continuous rally, reaching its record highs. On Thursday, it achieved $1,475.50 per troy ounce. Today, the gold price has dropped sharply, with markets suffering losses globally.The volatility of the precious metal’s price results from several factors.Firstly, in October, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic recommended Serbia’s central bank to increase its gold reserves in order to protect against economic issues and financial uncertainty. Following the...

Canadian crypto exchange CoinField has unveiled its top project Sologenic today at Malta AI and Blockchain Summit (AIBC), during the second day of the conference. CEO Bob Ras explained how Sologenic will merge traditional financial markets and crypto on the XRPL (XRP Ledger). Ras spoke exclusively to Coinspeaker at the conclusion of his presentation. Bob, you what was the key message that you delivered today in Malta about Sologenic?Bob Ras: If you look at the market size of stocks and ETFs...

Charles Schwab, a San Francisco-based bank and stock brokerage company, has announced they will allow their clients to buy and sell fractions of stocks. The initiative aims at attracting the interest of young investors to Charles Schwab and makes it the first online brokerage that offers its customers such an opportunity.The announcement follows the company’s decision to eliminate trading commissions for U.S. stocks, ETFs and options trades earlier this month, which led to other brokerage...

California based bank and stock brokerage firm Charles Schwab said that it is finally ending its battle in the brokerage sector. They decided they are ending commissions for online trading in U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds, and options.Just for a reminder, in the February of this year, together with Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab completely cut its commissions it had been charging on hundreds of their exchange-traded funds. The ongoing war was all about exciting the investors since...

Recently Overstock and its former CEO Patrick Byrne have recently made a lot of headlines. The main reason for that is that Patrick Byrne left the company with a big bang, sold all his equities and didn’t keep it a secret that he had invested in Bitcoin and gold.Now, an investor from Canada – Benjamin Ha, has filed a complaint with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that between May 9 and September 23, 2019, Overstock published “materially false and misleading...