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Gold price breaks higher as US Dollar weakness fuels rally

Gold price (XAU/USD) surges over 1.50% on Wednesday, cracks a key resistance trendline and hits a new two-week high as the Greenback weakens. This Bullion price action comes despite rising tensions and hostilities betwe…

Bitcoin Rally May Have Legs; Bank Income With BTCI

Bitcoin, the largest digital currency by market capitalization, is showing signs. It surpassed the psychologically important $65,000 level and is higher by nearly 3% for the week ending July 21.

2 Options to Capture the Complexity Premium in CLOs

In a Q2 Market Outlook Symposium with TMX VettaFi, and John Kim, CEO of Reckoner Capital Management, it was noted that collateralized loan obligation (CLO) ETFs have captured roughly $6 billion in inflows year to date[1…

Offense & Defense: The Infrastructure ETF Playbook

Broadly speaking, when advisors and investors are looking to dial into a particular sector for their portfolio, it’s usually for either an offensive or defensive means. An infrastructure ETF can play both offense and de…

Australian Dollar steadies ahead of Australian employment data

AUD/USD trades near 0.7000 on Wednesday, recovering from an intraday pullback but remaining marginally lower on the day. The pair briefly fell toward 0.6985 before rebounding, while the US Dollar Index (DXY) slipped tow…

Japanese Yen: BoJ hints at faster hikes – BNY

BNY’s Geoff Yu notes that Bank of Japan (BoJ) officials are reported open to raising rates faster than economists expected as Japanese Yen (JPY) weakness lifts inflation risks. Policy is still seen unchanged on July 31 …

Aluminium: Tariff tweaks seen as long-term policy – ING

ING analysts discuss changes to US Section 232 aluminium tariffs aimed at incentivizing domestic smelting investment. Qualifying projects can import at 25% instead of 50%, but ING stresses this is a long-term industrial…

British Pound steadies as cooler UK CPI meets Oil shock

The Pound Sterling holds firm during the North American session as UK inflation data dipped, easing pressure on the Bank of England to tackle higher prices, while attacks between the US and Iran don’t seem to be ending …