Julianne Geiger What I Cover Julianne Geiger is a veteran energy journalist and market analyst with more than a decade of experience covering the global oil and The United States still feels oil shocks. It just doesn’t feel them the way it did when America was dancing to disco and waiting in gas lines. If

Bohan Zhang and Kohei Takahara, economists at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation: The ECB meeting will be held next week on the 10th–11th, followed by key central bank policy meetings in major economies the week after—namely, the Bank of Japan (June 15–16), the FOMC (June 16–17), and the Bank of England (June 18)—making the ECB’s decision

EUR/USD extends gains for the second successive day, trading around 1.1620 during the Asian hours on Friday. The Euro (EUR) finds support as recent Eurozone inflation data solidified market expectations for a near-certain 25-basis-point rate hike by the European Central Bank (ECB) at its June 11 meeting. Traders are pricing in a total of two

Geopolitical factors have driven up inflation, delaying the timing of gold’s breakout, leading institutions to revise down their gold and silver price forecasts for the year. Carsten Fritsch, commodities analyst at Commerzbank, assessed that ongoing hostilities in Iran continue to fuel global inflation. However, expectations of Federal Reserve rate hikes have constrained gold prices in