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The Scotiabank Global Equity Research team dropped a meaty note this morning breaking down six major gold bull cycles over the past 50 years, and the conclusion is pretty straightforward: this one isn’t over. Gold is sitting around $5,025/oz right now, up 209% from the October 2022 low of $1,628. That’s a heck of a […]

While Gold remains on top, Silver and other, more volatile and less safe-haven metals are getting rejected quite starkly. Note that Platinum seems quite resilient above $2,000, so keep an eye on this one. With positioning getting to extremes (as expressed in a recent Bank of America Survey), options amassing for $15,000 – $20,000 prices

Federal Reserve (Fed) President of the Bank of Chicago, Austan Goolsbee, said that services inflation is “not tame” and added that there are potentially several more rate cuts in 2026, in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday Key takeaways: Recent headline inflation was partly pulled down due to base effects. Services inflation is “not tame.”

Canada’s annual inflation rate fell to 2.3% in January 2026, slightly lower than expected and aligned with the Bank of Canada’s forecasts. The trimmed-mean core rate, a key measure of underlying price pressures dropped to 2.4%, its lowest level since April 2021. While shelter and furniture costs cooled, food prices surged 7.3% and restaurant costs

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FUNDAMENTAL OVERVIEW Gold found some support from the benign US CPI report on Friday where headline inflation eased slightly, while the core measure remained unchanged. We saw a small dovish repricing although the data didn’t change anything in the bigger picture. Yesterday, gold dropped again and eventually erased all the post-CPI gains. There was no

​​​What the latest UK labour market data shows ​The UK labour market took another step backwards in the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) release, with unemployment climbing to 5.2% in the three months to December 2025. That marks the highest reading since 2021 and continues a trend that has been building since the middle

Silver prices (XAG/USD) fell on Tuesday, according to FXStreet data. Silver trades at $74.76 per troy ounce, down 2.33% from the $76.55 it cost on Monday. Silver prices have increased by 5.17% since the beginning of the year. Unit measure Silver Price Today in USD Troy Ounce 74.76 1 Gram 2.40 The Gold/Silver ratio, which

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2026.02.17 2026.02.17 Euro Poised to Surge As ECB Revamps Liquidity. Forecast as of 17.02.2026 Dmitri Demidenkohttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/dmitri-demidenko/ As a rule, thanks to divergence in monetary policy and a narrowing gap in economic growth between the US and the eurozone, the EUR/USD pair tends to eventually resume its upward trend. However, that’s not all the euro has

​Key areas to watch AI infrastructure demand durability Signals from hyperscalers (Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, etc.) will indicate multi-year capital expenditure (capex) commitments to GPU clusters versus any pivot to custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or internal accelerators. Breadth of demand updates from enterprises, sovereign AI projects, vertical workloads, and non-Big 5 customers will show

Japan’s 5-year JGB auction drew steady demand with a 3.10 bid-to-cover ratio and a modestly tighter tail, though participation was slightly softer compared with stronger sales last year. Japan sold ¥1.89 trillion of 5-year JGBs with a bid-to-cover ratio of 3.10 (vs 3.08 prior). Stop rate (highest accepted yield) came in at 1.646%, average yield

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