Gold may be poised to rally as speculation mounts that the Federal Reserve will hit the pause button on interest rate hikes in 2019.
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US Markets Rally on US-China Trade War Truce; Dollar Down, Yuan Up
The equities rally followed a US-China trade deal at the G20 summit in Argentina calling for a 90-day trade tariff truce. Oil prices jumped nearly 4%.
Fed Concerns Aren’t Over For the Market Yet
Trade relations between China and the U.S. overshadow most everything as stocks enter the month of December, but in the week ahead the Fed and U.S. economy come back into play with important Fed testimony and the November employment report.
Oil prices getting lower. Great! Like a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy! $54, was just $82. Thank you to Saudi Arabia, but let’s go lower!
Crude Oil prices getting lower. Great! Like a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy! $54, was just $82. Thank you to Saudi Arabia, but let’s go lower!
As Oil Plunges, the Real OPEC Meeting Will Be at Next Week’s G20 – Money Market Guru
For the oil market, it looks like the real OPEC meeting will come a week ahead of schedule.
The cartel is set to meet on Dec. 6 in Vienna, but days earlier the key decision makers are set to gather on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in a meeting that may well decide the direction of oil prices in 2019.
JP Morgan has cut its outlook for oil, predicting that Brent crude prices will average $73 a barrel in 2019
Scott Darling, head of Asia-Pacific oil and gas at JP Morgan told CNBC that the investment bank recently revised its outlook in part due to North American supply ramping up in the second half of next year. JP Morgan expects the price of Brent, the international benchmark for oil, to go toward $64 in 2020.
JP Morgan economists said the Economy Should Grow at a Slower Pace of 1.9 Percent From the Fourth Quarter’s Year over Year Rate of 3.1 Percent
The economist say the slow down from a “boomy” 3.1 percent in year-over-year fourth quarter growth will come as fiscal, monetary and trade policy get less supportive or more restrictive.
OPEC And its Allies Are Set To Meet on Dec. 6 to Discuss Supply Cuts
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Growing fears of an economic slowdown, which saw global stock markets tumble again, added further pressure on crude.
Crude Oil Marketers Gains As Crude Resumes Decline
The stocks were the best performers on the Nifty 50 Index.
Shares of the Crude oil marketing companies rose in today’s trade after the crude oil resumed declines after a one-day rally.
The Brent crude oil slip 0.86 percent to trade at 69.52 a barrel.
Crude Oil Continues Big Slide Despite Saudi Talk of Supply Cuts
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Futures in New York as 0.4% Monday, extending a record decline. Oil was pulled 2.5% lower after the close amid a slide in equities, with President Donald Trump adding pressure with a tweet criticising the Saudi plan.