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BofA notes that gold funds attracted its largest inflow in three months in the week to Wednesday but warns of the outlook Citing EPFR data, BofA highlights that gold funds garnered $1.6 billion in the week to Wednesday, the largest inflow in three months. However, the firm warns that “the bad news is global tapering
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The latest data suggests that China’s economy continues to improve in the second quarter. The Markit/Caixin services PMI increased to 56.3 in April, highest since December 2020. The reading also beat consensus of 54.2 and March’s 54.3. Separately, China’s trade surplus tripled in April, compared with a month ago. Markit/Caixin services PMI Besides the strong
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What’s expected for the April 2021 non-farm payrolls report Consensus estimate +1000K Private +938K March +916K Highest estimate +2100K (Jefferies) Lowest estimate +700K (Prestige Economics) Average estimate +1035K Standard deviation +203K Unemployment rate consensus estimate: 5.8% vs 6.0% prior Participation rate consensus +61.6% vs 61.5% prior Prior underemployment U6 prior 10.7% Avg hourly earnings y/y
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Latest data released by Markit – 6 May 2021 The downturn in construction activity continues in April but the thing to note from the report is unprecedented levels of supply disruption, which has caused input price inflation to climb to its highest since survey records began in 1999. Looking at the details, commercial activity continues
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Australian Dollar trades generally lower today, after China announced to “indefinitely” suspended all  activities under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue. But the spike on Aussie was relatively shallow and short-lived. Traders are quick to remember that the tariffs by China on some Aussie products didn’t had much material impacts on the latter’s export performance. Additionally,
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There are too many people who want to gamble The line between gambling, trading and investing has always been finer than anyone in this industry admits. All investments are essentially a bet on the future. What’s changed lately is that traders don’t seem to care about anything but price. When crypto first boomed there were
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Latest data released by Markit – 5 May 2021 Prior 48.1 Composite PMI 55.2 vs 52.2 expected Prior 50.1 Invest in yourself. See our forex education hub. The Spanish services sector returns to growth as an improving virus situation bolsters activity and new business in general. This provides some confidence towards the outlook in 2H
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