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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Egypt's country compact with the World Bank Group targets 9.8 billion dollars of metals and minerals-related exports by 2040 and a 6…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
The 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) have released approximately 330 million barrels of emergency oil stocks under the…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session's settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
China's goods trade passed 5 trillion yuan in a single month for the first time in September. The General Administration of Customs…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
First published at 16:46 GMT; updated with the session's settlements at 20:04 GMT. The midday rout in the metals ran to the…
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Macro · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
US consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, after 0.4 percent in August, and the annual rate…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Crude oil exports from Gulf producers, led by Saudi Arabia, surged by 4.4 million barrels a day to 13.9 million in September,…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
OPEC raised its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2027 to 2.55 million barrels a day, from 2.36 million a month…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
The crude benchmarks split on Tuesday, with Brent 0.86 percent below Monday's settlement at 105.73 dollars a barrel by the 19:04 GMT…
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Macro · Oct 13, 2026 · 7 min read
Germany's annual inflation rate rose to 3.3 percent in September 2026 from 2.9 percent in August, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) confirmed…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Crude extended its gains on Monday after the weekend's attacks on Saudi Arabia, with WTI 1.87 percent above Friday's settlement at 93.57…
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Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian supplies, while all five metals rose, platinum and silver up near 1.6 percent and gold 0.72 percent higher at 4,200.10 dollars an ounce as the dollar headed for a weekly fall. The crude…
Egypt’s country compact with the World Bank Group targets 9.8 billion dollars of metals and minerals-related exports by 2040 and a 6 percent minerals contribution to GDP by 2030, under plans announced in Bangkok on 16 October. Egypt was one of 8 countries to announce compacts or partnerships there, alongside Argentina, Bolivia, India, Kazakhstan, Malawi,…
The 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) have released approximately 330 million barrels of emergency oil stocks under the collective action agreed in March, and the total will now exceed the 400 million barrels originally pledged, the agency’s Governing Board said on 15 October. The Board agreed to accelerate the remaining volumes,…
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session’s settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the settlements and the crude benchmarks parted ways into the close: December gold settled 62.20 dollars, or 1.51 percent, higher at 4,170.10 an ounce as the dollar and Treasury yields slipped, while WTI settled…
China’s goods trade passed 5 trillion yuan in a single month for the first time in September. The General Administration of Customs put the month at 5.16 trillion yuan in preliminary figures, 27.5 percent above September 2025. Exports rose 29.6 percent to 3.03 trillion yuan and imports rose 24.6 percent to 2.13 trillion yuan. Over…
First published at 16:46 GMT; updated with the session’s settlements at 20:04 GMT. The midday rout in the metals ran to the settlements: December gold settled 69.40 dollars, or 1.66 percent, lower at 4,107.90 an ounce after September’s hot US inflation reading, with silver 6.32 percent down on the evening board, while WTI settled 95…
US consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, after 0.4 percent in August, and the annual rate before seasonal adjustment climbed to 3.7 percent from 3.4 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday at 12:30 GMT. No month since May, when the rate stood at 4.2 percent, has…
Crude oil exports from Gulf producers, led by Saudi Arabia, surged by 4.4 million barrels a day to 13.9 million in September, reaching more than 75 percent of pre-war levels, the International Energy Agency said in its Oil Market Report on 14 October. Global oil supply rose 2.5 million barrels a day on the month…
OPEC raised its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2027 to 2.55 million barrels a day, from 2.36 million a month earlier, in its Monthly Oil Market Report for October, while trimming its 2026 estimate to 180,000 barrels a day from 380,000. Crude production by the countries in the Declaration of Cooperation rose by…
The crude benchmarks split on Tuesday, with Brent 0.86 percent below Monday’s settlement at 105.73 dollars a barrel by the 19:04 GMT reading and WTI 0.47 percent above its own at 94.18. The two went on to settle at 105.69 and 94.14 dollars, WTI’s highest close since 24 September, on Reuters’ updated report. Heating oil’s…