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Gold gains as traders react to President Trump's threat of new reciprocal tariffs, enhancing its safe-haven status. US Nonfarm Payrolls fall short of expectations, yet a declining Unemployment Rate suggests a resilient labor market. PBoC’s increased Gold reserves and cautious comments from Fed offic

Federal Reserve (Fed) Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee hit markets on an already-volatile Friday with more bad news, noting that inconsistent policy approaches from the US government cause a high level of economic uncertainty that make it difficult for the Fed to draw a bead on where the ec

Markets U.S. stocks were mixed on Thursday as traders juggled earnings season drama, the looming Non-Farm Payrolls report, and President Trump’s policy whirlwind—a cocktail that’s sure to keep market participants wide awake into the weekend. Earnings season, that old reliable market mover, is back i

Federal Reserve officials take great pains not to comment on fiscal policy, but the looming threat from tariffs is forcing their hand. In recent days, multiple central bank policymakers not only have noted the uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump's desire to slap broad-ranging duties on pr

The unveiling of some savage tariffs from the Trump administration over the weekend has wreaked havoc in financial markets. It is perhaps not the size of the trade levies that has caught markets wrong-footed, but both the hastiness at which they will be imposed and the speed of the retaliatory respo

United States (US) President Donald Trump took to social media late Thursday to make a fresh tariff threat against Canada and Mexico. According to President Trump's social media post, the US is set to impose a flat 25% import tax "because of fentanyl" on all goods crossing the border into the US fro

As the Bank of Canada concluded in two great articles in its Monetary Policy Report released yesterday, tariffs could be a massive game-changer, ING's FX analyst Chris Turner notes. Investors are waiting for tariff news "BoC calculated that 6% of the 7% rise in USD/CAD since October was down to a ri