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Oil rises as traders consider a tight fuel market and poor global growth Investors evaluated tight product markets against concerns about slowing global growth as oil prices increased at the start of the week. Following four weeks of advances, West Texas Intermediate rose beyond $111 a barrel, the longest such run since February. Prices of

In the idle markets, XAU/USD remains protective at $1,800 As global markets battle for clear directions to extend the previous optimism, gold (XAU/USD) prices drop from intraday highs, being range-bound near $1,813-18. During a sluggish Asian session on Wednesday, the precious metal maintained its previous day’s fall from the 200-DMA. The current Fed speak is

Oil prices starting to fall as EU tries for Russia import ban Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Tuesday as the European Union’s efforts to establish a ban on Russian oil imports, which would reduce global supply, were met with opposition from Hungary. At 0004 GMT, Brent crude prices were down 35 cents,

Gold is rising from three-month lows as bond rates in the United States fall Lower U.S. Treasury rates maintained demand for zero-yield metal afloat above the important psychological support level of roughly $1,800 per ounce on Monday, lifting gold from a more than three-month low reached the previous session. As of 0227 GMT, spot gold

As oil stocks rise, Wall Street is turning away from big tech On Wall Street, big tech stocks were all the rage, with speculators buying them up to absurdly high levels. For example, the legendary quintuple of Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet) took up about a fifth of the S&P