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Dollar gains as ADP shows better-than-expected jobs gains

NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The dollar hit a three-week high against the euro on Wednesday after the ADP national employment report showed U.S. private payrolls increased more than expected in September, ahead of Friday's highly anticipated jobs data.

Oct 02, 2024 - 4:40 PM

Reuters

Fed's Barkin says price pressures may not fade as fast as expected

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. central bank's fight to return inflation to its 2% target may take longer than expected to complete and limit how far interest rates can be cut, Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin said on Wednesday.

Oct 02, 2024 - 4:10 PM

Reuters

Energy, mining shares support FTSE 100 as investors assess Middle East risk

Oct 2 (Reuters) - The UK's benchmark FTSE 100 stock index edged higher on Wednesday, led by energy shares as oil prices jumped on concerns about tensions in the Middle East, though investors were cautious as they assessed the risk of escalating conflict.The blue-chip FTSE 100 (.FTSE), opens new tab was up 0.2%, while the more domestically focussed midcap FTSE 250 index (.FTMC), opens new tab was down 0.6%.

Oct 02, 2024 - 3:06 PM

Reuters

Australian mine fight reignites Aboriginal heritage tensions

Wiradjuri elder Nyree Reynolds calls her home west of Sydney the valley of the Bilabula, the Indigenous name for its river. The river features in Wiradjuri stories about the creation of their land, she told state planning regulators, “And no one has the right to destroy this.”On her objections, the Australian government in August ordered miner Regis Resources to find a new dam site for a A$1 billion ($685 million) gold project on the grounds its proposed location for storing rock and chemical waste would irreparably harm culture attached to the river.

Oct 02, 2024 - 3:03 PM

Reuters

ECB's top hawk shifts tone with sanguine inflation message

FRANKFURT, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation is increasingly likely to ease back to the European Central Bank's 2% target, ECB board member Isabel Schnabel said, dropping her long-standing warning about the difficulty of taming price growth and likely boosting rate cut bets.

Oct 02, 2024 - 2:10 PM

Gold rally cools as traders eye Mideast developments, US data

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 12:26 PM

Fed's Barkin says rates were 'out of sync' before September cut, inflation fight not done

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 11:00 AM

Construction sector helps to lift US private payrolls in September

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 10:38 AM

LME monitoring aluminum market after spike in spread

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 10:38 AM

Madagascar’s nickel and cobalt miner Ambatovy shuts down ore pipeline

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 10:36 AM

S&P 500, Nasdaq hit two-week lows as caution reigns over Middle East tensions

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 10:24 AM

Wall St set to open lower after Middle East tensions make investors jittery

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 9:12 AM

Most Gulf markets retreat on heightened regional tensions

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 8:32 AM

Stocks stable, oil rises as wary investors eye Middle East hostilities

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 8:30 AM

Gold rally pauses as focus shifts to US economic data

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 8:24 AM

Middle East uncertainty after Iran attack makes for tricky trading

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 7:55 AM

Dollar holds gains as war widens in Middle East, rallies against yen

Reuters - Oct 02, 2024 - 7:43 AM

Firms substituting cheaper aluminum for copper, trend growing

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 5:48 PM

Indexes end down as Iran launches missiles at Israel; defense shares rise

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 5:16 PM

Fed liquidity tools see demand ease amid new repo market anxieties

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 3:54 PM

Key US short-term rate surges amid month-end turbulence

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 2:03 PM

No signs of US labor market deterioration as job openings rebound

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 1:30 PM

Wyloo to sell its low-carbon metal on platform Metalshub

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 1:09 PM

Equities fall, safe haven assets rise on fears of Iran attack on Israel

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 12:21 PM

Gold prices and poverty fuel illegal mining in Peru’s Amazon

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 11:55 AM

Canada September factory PMI shows first growth in 17 months

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 11:37 AM

Wall St slides as Middle East tensions intensify; jobs data assessed

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 11:15 AM

Oil prices dip as prospect of additional supply offsets Mideast fears

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 11:10 AM

US construction spending falls in August on single-family homebuilding

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 10:05 AM

Euro zone inflation dips below 2%, strengthening rate cut case

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 9:59 AM

Gold firms on safe-haven demand, lower bond yields

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 9:25 AM

Bonds rally, dollar firms as traders ponder rate cuts

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 8:45 AM

Dollar gains as Powell pushes back on jumbo rate-cut bets

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 8:40 AM

Global factory activity hit by economic uncertainty

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 7:40 AM

Global investors gear up to go back into China

Reuters - Oct 01, 2024 - 7:13 AM

S&P 500 ends slightly higher; declines briefly following Powell comments

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 4:14 PM

Record run steers gold to best quarter in four years

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 3:25 PM

Indexes extend losses following Powell comments

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 3:00 PM

Fed's Powell says rates will 'over time' reach neutral level, not on preset course

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 2:21 PM

Platinum Equity's Ingram Micro makes US IPO filing public

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 1:49 PM

Tsingshan cuts Indonesian nickel output due to tight ore supplies

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 1:37 PM

Fed's Goolsbee reiterates case for extended path of rate cuts

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 1:33 PM

Iron ore price surges to nearly three-month high on China’s fresh property stimulus

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 1:25 PM

Savannah Resources delays start of Portuguese lithium production to 2027

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 1:16 PM

Final day of quarter sees cash surge into reverse repo facility

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 1:00 PM

Big US oil companies reveal massive payments to foreign governments

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 12:32 PM

Wall St mixed ahead of data-loaded week; Powell's comments awaited

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 11:20 AM

Gold price poised for biggest quarterly gain since 2016

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 9:46 AM

Fed's Powell poised to speak as economists fret about a policy mistake

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 9:35 AM

Investors sell US equity funds for fifth week in a row

Reuters - Sep 30, 2024 - 9:30 AM