17 August 2022 Hedge Demand to Keep Gold Prices Underpinned says Crédit Agricole, WGC

New institutional analysis finds the gold price is likely to be supported by ongoing hedge demand by investors, and a new medium-term technical analysis says a return to $1835 cannot be ruled out.

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15 August 2022 Collapse in Empire State Index: "Startlingly Terrible, but Scarcely Believable"

"In one line: Startlingly terrible, but scarcely believable" - Pantheon Macroeconomics.

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12 August 2022 River Rhine Only "Marginal" Issue for German Industry - Barclays 

  Germany is facing multiple serious challenges but the falling water levels along the Rhine riverway are not among them and even for the industrial engine of Europe's largest economy, they'r…

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12 August 2022 Small Businesses Sound the Alarm Over the UK Economy's Future

The UK economy contracted less than was expected last quarter but its foundations are weakening with financial distress growing as a constraint within the small business sector and lynchpin of the …

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11 August 2022 This Might Not be a Bull Trap After All: Latest Goldman Sachs Investor Survey Results

Financial markets are in flux with investors, traders and analysts second guessing some of the big trends of 2022 thus far in the second half of the year, making for an uncertain environment in whi…

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08 August 2022 Bank of England's Forecasts "Economic Nonsense" says Toscafund's Savouri

The Bank of England's forecasts of a long and enduring UK recession has been branded unrealistic by Savvas Savouri, Chief Economist and Partner at hedge fund Toscafund Asset Management.

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04 August 2022 Fed Speak Hints of Another Reckoning Ahead for Currency and Bond Markets

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said twice this week that bond markets are mispricing the outlook for U.S. interest rates and implied that a reset of expectations could be…

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