Precious Metals

With the US jobs report ending Fed uncertainty for now, everything bad is good again. Dow up 304. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

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

Wall Street didn’t seem to quite know what to do last night but tonight’s jobs numbers likely forced a flat close. Dow down 12. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley downgrade commodity prices and review the outlook for miners; tin pressured by supply; lead outlook comparatively better; several factors weighing on steel.

It was a case of window-dressing and short-covering across global markets over the past 24 hours for the end of the quarter. Dow up 235. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

Wall Street did not fall out of bed last night, as Monday night’s “Death Cross” omens portended. Dow up 47. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

The outlook for energy, industrial metals and bulk commodities; platinum and Volkswagen; China’s grain imports.

It was Death Crosses aplenty on Wall Street last night as the technicians stir the market into assuming the August lows must be retested. Dow down 312. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)

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

Caterpillar sent a scare through Wall Street last night by slashing its revenue forecast and announcing extensive lay-offs. Dow down 78. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEST)