Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From bnnbloomberg.ca

China plans to add to its strategic reserves of key industrial metals this year, an effort to boost the resilience of critical minerals supply at time when energy-transition demand is increasing and geopolitical tensions are running high. Cobalt, ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From openinsightscap.com

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Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From raymondjames.com

This week, and according to many, Federal Reserve (Fed) officials jumped onto the uncertainty bandwagon, along with consumers and businesses, waiting for more policy clarity from the Trump administration – and who could blame them with policies in ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From channelnewsasia.com

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto task force held its first public meeting with experts on Friday, focusing on how securities laws might apply to digital assets as the Trump administration looks to overhaul cryptocurrency ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From forex.com|3 comments

Although the bullish bias in XAU/USD movements has remained strong, the price closed the week pulling back toward the $3,000 per troy ounce support zone, posting a short-term decline of just over 1%. Nevertheless, the long-term trend remains broadly ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From argusmedia.com

US ethane production rose to a record last year on higher prices relative to natural gas, while exports and domestic consumption climbed to new highs on increased petrochemical demand, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday. US ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From oilprice.com

President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to increase U.S. critical minerals production in a bid to reduce reliance on “hostile foreign powers’ mineral production.” In an executive order, the U.S. President invoked the Defense Production Act ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From omfif.org

Financial processes have always been tied to infrastructure. From bills of exchange to mobile banking, economic participants have relied on technology to innovate over time to achieve greater efficiency. As technology improves, financial ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From sports.yahoo.com

As March Madness got underway this week, the conferences with the most teams in the NCAA Tournament stand to make the most money thanks to a complicated “unit” system that rewards success. And for the first time ever, women’s teams that make the Big ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From finance.yahoo.com|11 comments

Two Federal Reserve officials on Friday echoed comments from Chair Jerome Powell earlier this week, downplaying the recent rise in a key measure of long-term inflation expectations but emphasizing the outlook is highly uncertain. New York Fed ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From @LiveSquawk|2 comments

UK Considers Cutting Online Sales Tax For US Tariff Carve-Out - @business https://t.co/Si8NJN1utA

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From kitco.com

The gold market is holding support above $3,000 an ounce, but it’s seeing some solid profit-taking ahead of the weekend, as prices were unable to hold their ground above $3,057 an ounce. While the precious metal still has some upside potential, some ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From @FirstSquawk

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Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From econostream-media.com

European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said on Thursday that the direction of ination was now harder to predict than it had been for a long time. In the presentation of the annual report for 2024 of De Nederlandsche Bank, which he ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From oilprice.com

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a period of no change in the prior week. The total rig count in the US rose by 1 to ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From etftrends.com

Following bitcoin’s volatile February, investors might have hoped that March would be a tamer month for bitcoin. So far, in mid-March, that hasn’t been the case. The month began well for bitcoin prices after President Trump announced his intentions ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From cnbc.com|1 comment

President Donald Trump on Friday said there will be “flexibility” on his reciprocal tariff plan, even as he seemed to oppose the idea of making exceptions for the forthcoming duties. “People are coming to me and talking about tariffs, and a lot of ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From oilprice.com

Buoyed by Trump’s continued pressure on Iran and OPEC+’s renewed efforts to send prices higher ahead of its April meeting by committing to additional overcompensation plans, ICE Brent is creeping back closer to the $75 per barrel mark, posting its ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From finance.yahoo.com

The U.S. Treasury on Friday lifted economic sanctions against Tornado Cash, a firm that makes cryptocurrency transactions harder to track, which the Biden administration had accused of helping launder more than $7 billion for North Korean and other ...

Submitted Mar 21, 2025|From @RedboxWire

CANADA PRIME MINISTER CARNEY CANCELS PROPOSED CAPITAL GAINS TAX INCREASE -PMO STATEMENT CANADA GOV'T WILL MAINTAIN THE INCREASE IN THE LIFETIME CAPITAL GAINS EXEMPTION LIMIT TO C$1.25 MLN ON SALE OF SMALL BUSINESS SHARES AND FARMING AND FISHING PROPERTY -PMO STATEMENT