Gold Silver Reports — Faith in India’s economy and its weather is giving overseas investors the confidence to snap up equities at the quickest pace in more than a year.
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Global Economy is Pretty Poor with China as an issue: Gold Zoom
Gold Silver Reports — Gold’s biggest rally in almost four decades has further to run as weak economies and teetering equity markets drive investor demand for the metal, according to Citrine Capital Management LLC.
Central Banks Buy Everything
Gold Silver Reports — At a time when risky assets including stocks, commodities, junk bonds and emerging-market currencies are rallying to multi-month highs, so are the havens, from gold, government bonds to the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen.
No matter that the U.S. labor market is deteriorating and the World Bank has just cut its estimates for global economic growth. Investors either don’t believe the news is bad enough to kill a global recovery that’s already long in the tooth, or they’re betting that sluggishness in some of the biggest economies means central banks will stay more accommodative for longer.
FOMC Convenes For The Two-Day Meeting on June 14-15
Gold Silver Reports — Gold prices pared losses during later half on Tuesday as investors contemplated the likelihood that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in the coming months.
RBI Policy Interest Rate Unchanged – Raghuram Rajan
Gold Silver Reports — RBI kept its policy interest rate unchanged at a five-year low of 6.50 percent on Tuesday, while cautiously signalling it could cut later this year if monsoon rains, and other factors, dampen upward pressure on food prices.
RBI Is Widely Expected to Keep Its Policy Interest Rate Unchanged
Gold Silver Reports — RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, a much admired former International Monetary Fund chief economist, could be chairing his penultimate policy review, with investors waiting to hear whether the government plans to extend his 3-year term beyond September.
Janet Yellen Speech Suggests Fed Will Rethink Interest-Rate Plans
Gold Silver Reports — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday that interest rate hikes are likely on the way because “positive economic forces have outweighed the negative” for the United States, though last month’s weak jobs report bears watching.
Stocks Rise Before U.S. Jobs Data
Gold Silver Reports — Most Asian equities rose and the Japanese yen held near a three-week high before U.S. jobs data that will shape expectations for the timing of the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate hike. The British pound extended its loss for the week and Brent crude traded near $50 a barrel.
India Economy Will Support Rupee Bonds
Gold Silver Reports — Pacific Investment Management Co. says the growth trajectory and financial health of India’s economy will support rupee bonds regardless of who helms the central bank. That may soon be someone other than Governor Raghuram Rajan after a newspaper report said he’s not seeking a 2nd term.
Fed Rate Hike in Coming Months; Yellen
Gold Silver Reports — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the ongoing improvement in the U.S. economy would warrant another interest rate increase “in the coming months,” stopping short of giving an explicit hint that the central bank would act in June.