Precious Metals

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

Wall Street opened strongly before fading away, but still managed its first up-day in seven. Dow up 19. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

Big miners are scaling back capex plans and this has the potential to impact on the mining services sector, where brokers have updated their preferred exposures.

News gave way to rumours last night over whether Greece will receive its bail-out tranche and whether Spain will nationalise its banks. Dow down 97. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with updates on bulk commodity markets, changes to coal price forecasts, views on recent oil price weakness and a review of metal markets.

Wall Street plunged but later recovered much ground on the news a far left party was attempting to form a government in Greece. Dow down 76. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

Just how bad is the new situation in Europe? Not that bad at all, or at least not much different, says Wall Street. Dow down 29. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDT)

A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities with forecasts being revised, updates on precious metals and aluminium and changing capex plans for miners.

BullionVault’s Ben Traynor notes gold prices have just experienced the quietest 40 days since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis.

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.