On Thursday at 13:46 Moscow time, gold prices rose to 1 thousand 298 dollars 76 cents per troy ounce from 1 thousand 296 dollars per ounce at the closure of trading on Wednesday. The price of August gold futures in the US rose by 1 dollar 85 ...
Deliveries of oil and condensate from the US to China for the period from January to April 2018 doubled year-on-year to 330,000 barrels per day due to increased purchases. According to Bloomberg, during this period, the price of WTI oil rose ...
Last week, the number of the US citizens, who had applied for unemployment benefits for the first time, decreased by 1,000 to 222,000, according to the country's Ministry of Labor. Analysts had expected the figure at 220 thousand. Its value ...
Interfax Global Gas Analytics expert, Andrew Walker, believes that the rise in prices for liquefied natural gas threatens the market of this fuel over the long term. According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, spot prices ...
Washington has concluded an agreement with the Chinese corporation ZTE, which provides the lifting of a ban on the sale of equipment of this company for the American companies, the US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview with ...
Xinhua News Agency reported that the World Bank will provide a loan of $600 million to China to improve the country's water resources management system, finversia.ru wrote. The World Bank's statement says that the funds will be used to improve ...
Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India decided to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%. The key interest rate was raised for the first time since 2014 in order to ease price pressure and calm financial markets. Most ...
Consumer prices in Switzerland rose in May by 1% in annual terms. Compared with the growth of 0.8% in April, inflation accelerated in May, official data show. The May inflation rate became the highest since March 2011. Analysts had predicted ...
The European Central Bank during the upcoming meeting on June 14 in Riga, may decide on the timing of the curtailment of the program for the purchase of assets to the value of 2.5 trillion euros, ECB chief economist Peter Pratt said in an interview ...
The largest Chinese IT companies - Tencent and Alibaba - dominate in such sectors of the Chinese economy as online retail, electronic payments, social networks, taxi services and entertainment market. They divide the sphere of influence into ...
On Wednesday, gold prices went up against the background of the decline in the dollar index to the basket of six major currencies by 0.2%. Investors are also concerned about trade tension, as many see the new US fees as a negotiating tool. ...
Leading analysts of the real estate market expect the preservation of an acute shortage of affordable homes in the US in the near future, which, in their view, will lead to higher prices, the growth of which will be higher than inflation and ...
The index of supply managers for the construction sector in Germany rose in May to a maximum of four months to 53.9 points from 50.9 points in April, a survey of IHS Markit showed. The sector continued to recover from a recession due to weather ...
In April, deficit of the US foreign trade balance decreased by 2.1% and amounted to 46 billion 200 million dollars, which is the minimum value since September 2017, the country's Ministry of Trade reported. Analysts had expected the figure ...
The cost of labor in the US in the first quarter increased by 2.9%, according to the final data of the country's Ministry of Labor. The indicator grew at the maximum rate for the year and coincided with the forecasts of analysts. In the first ...
The volume of retail sales in the UK increased in April compared to March by 1.6% and compared with April last year - by 1.4%, according to the Office for National Statistics. Analysts had expected growth of the first indicator by 0.9%, the ...
China will reduce duties on imports of a number of consumer goods. This will affect a significantly larger number of categories of goods than the decline by almost 200 varieties of goods announced last year, Bloomberg reports referring to unnamed ...
The indicator of consumer sentiment in Germany declined in May to 10.7 points from 10.8 points a month earlier, a poll of about 2 thousand Germans conducted by the Nuremberg Institute of GfK showed. Consumer sentiment declines for two consecutive ...
Uber Technology in the first quarter received a net profit of $2 billion 460 million dollars against a net loss of $847 million a year earlier. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company has made a profit by consolidating operations ...
On Wednesday, capitalization of the cryptocurrency market lost about 50 billion dollars within 72 hours and amounted to 326 billion dollars. On Thursday, the downward trend continued. The bitcoin rate at 11:45 Moscow time on Thursday fell to ...