Futures
Gold prices retreat as the U.S. dollar bucks up
Gold futures head lower on Monday as stocks and the U.S. dollar made some tentative steps higher against the backdrop of rapidly moving developments in the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump extend guidelines on measures intended to mitigate the infection’s spread. 55 min ago9:38 a.m. March 30, 2020
Oil dips below $20 a barrel to start week as coronavirus crushes demand amid price-war
Oil futures get the week off to an ugly start, with the U.S. benchmark dipping below the psychologically important $20-a-barrel level to trade at an 18-year low as the global COVID-19 pandemic crushes demand and a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia floods the world with crude. 8:37 a.m. Today8:37 a.m. March 30, 2020
Plunge in global crude demand sends oil prices down for a 5th straight week
Oil futures finish lower on Friday,with a huge drop in demand as result of the global COVID-19 pandemic sending prices down for a fifth week in a row. 4:06 p.m. March 27, 2020
Natural-gas futures touch their lowest level in 25 years, but still outperform oil
Natural-gas prices have dropped to their lowest level in a quarter-century, but they have managed to outperform oil against a backdrop of declining demand fed by efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. 2:41 p.m. March 27, 2020
Gold scores biggest weekly gain since 2008
Gold futures settle with a loss on Friday, but still score the biggest one-week rise since December 2008. 2:19 p.m. March 27, 2020
Oil marks first decline in 4 sessions as fears of demand crunch grow
Oil futures settle lower on Thursday as growing worries around the decline in energy demand from the global COVID-19 pandemic prompted prices to mark their first decline in four sessions. 3:21 p.m. March 26, 2020
Gold prices end higher as U.S. jobless claims jump to a record
Gold prices end higher Thursday, finding support as the U.S. dollar weakened on the back of a jump in U.S. jobless claims to a weekly record, with the data providing a grim insight into the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in the world’s largest economy. 1:53 p.m. March 26, 2020
Gold suffers pricing issues as coronavirus shuts down supply sources
An unusually wide spread between gold prices for Comex futures and the London bullion market this week highlighted both pricing and delivery issues tied to the shutdowns of gold operations aimed at preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. 12:52 p.m. March 26, 2020
Oil prices end higher as move toward U.S. stimulus package fuels optimism
Oil futures end higher Wednesday, giving up earlier declines as optimism surrounding the $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package eventually helped to calm worries about growing supply amid a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. 3:31 p.m. March 25, 2020
Gold prices settle lower after sharpest daily rise in over a decade
Gold prices on Wednesday settled lower, giving up some gains from a day earlier when bullion registered its largest percentage rise in more than a decade. 2:15 p.m. March 25, 2020
Oil prices up a second session on Fed stimulus and optimism over fiscal package
Oil futures end higher on Tuesday, extending a their gain to second straight session a day after the Federal Reserve unveiled a historic round of monetary stimulus and investors remained upbeat about prospects for congressional approval of a massive fiscal stimulus package. 3:15 p.m. March 24, 2020
Gold up 6% in biggest climb for 11 years amid tight supplies and limitless monetary stimulus
Gold prices on Tuesday post their largest daily percentage surge in more than a decade as the precious metal extended its rally in the wake of the closure of gold mining operations and moves by the Federal Reserve to address the coronavirus crisis. 2:02 p.m. March 24, 2020
Fed move awakens gold, just as supply of the metal hits a snag
Gold’s one-day dollar surge is one for the record books. But as mining operations shutdown, the precious metal may soon see prices rally to new heights. 4:57 p.m. March 23, 2020
Oil settles with a gain as Fed stimulus aims to offset COVID-19 pandemic-related economic woes
Oil futures finish higher on Monday, as traders eyed another round of monetary stimulus by the Federal Reserve and its potential to boost the economy and demand for energy. 3:34 p.m. March 23, 2020
Gold scores biggest daily dollar gain on record
Gold futures rally on Monday to post the largest daily dollar gain on record, with bullion up a third straight session after the Federal Reserve unveiled a major stimulus package that includes unlimited purchases of Treasurys. 2:42 p.m. March 23, 2020
U.S. oil prices post weekly loss of 29%, biggest since 1991
Oil settles sharply lower on Friday, with U.S. prices down 29% for the week—the largest weekly loss since 1991—as economic stimulus plans from government and central banks fail to offset expectations for steep fall in demand due to coronavirus pandemic, and as Saudi Arabia and Russia oversupply the market. 5:30 p.m. March 20, 2020
Gold settles higher, but logs a second weekly decline
Gold futures settle higher Friday, finding support after indiscriminate selling across financial markets weighed even on some traditional havens, sending prices for the precious metal lower for the week. 1:54 p.m. March 20, 2020
Retail gasoline prices drop to lowest since 2016
Retail gasoline prices have hit their lowest level in more than three years, though U.S. drivers might not be fully able to enjoy it with many states on lockdown due to the coronavirus. Oil refiners, meanwhile, are set to take a hit, as demand destruction for fuel in the age of Covid-19 has yet to reach a peak. 11:07 a.m. March 20, 2020
Oil rallies, with U.S. prices scoring their biggest daily percentage climb on record
Oil futures bounced off the lowest levels in nearly 20 years on Thursday, with U.S. prices scoring their largest one-day percentage climb on record. 3:18 p.m. March 19, 2020
Physical demand for silver spikes as price drops to an 11-year low
Silver prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2009, boosting demand for the physical metal at a rate not seen in a decade. 2:39 p.m. March 19, 2020
Gold prices recover from lowest levels of year
Gold prices recovered some ground Thursday, a day after settling at the lowest levels of the year, as governments and central banks made moves to support the global economy, which has suffered under the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1:55 p.m. March 19, 2020
U.S. oil falls to an 18-year low as rout continues on coronavirus fears, price war
Oil futures extend their plunge, sending U.S. prices to their lowest finish since 2002, as countries lock down to slow the spread of COVID-19, while Saudi Arabia and Russia remain on track to flood the world with crude in a global price war. 3:09 p.m. March 18, 2020
Dismal oil demand outlook, Saudi-Russian price war lead to ‘atomic bomb’-like environment for oil
Oil futures trade near their lowest levels in 20 years with the plunge in prices expected to continue, fed by a weak oil demand outlook tied to the spread of COVID-19 and a price war between two of some of the biggest crude producers in the world. 3:05 p.m. March 18, 2020
Gold drops back to lowest since December as stock-market plunge leads to further deleveraging
Gold prices on Wednesday drop back to their lowest settlement since December, signaling a further flight to liquidity by investors will outweigh the metal’s traditional haven appeal as equities see another round of heavy losses on worries over the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2:11 p.m. March 18, 2020
Oil prices down a second session to post another 4-year low
Oil futures decline on Tuesday, extending losses from a day earlier to post another four-year low, as traders focused on expectations for a massive hit to demand from the global spread of COVID-19 and an increase in supply as Russia, and Saudi Arabia engage in a global price war. 3:22 p.m. March 17, 2020
Gold tallies first gain in 6 sessions after Fed announces short-term funding facility
Gold prices finish higher on Tuesday for the first time in six sessions, with gains for the metal coinciding with an announcement that the Federal Reserve was establishing a lending facility to assist U.S. corporations in rolling over short-term debt, a key area of the market that had frozen during the coronavirus pandemic. 1:57 p.m. March 17, 2020
Oil ends at 4-year low, with U.S. benchmark below $30 as emergency Fed moves fail to reassure traders on economy
Crude prices settle at a four-year low on Monday, with U.S. prices under $30 a barrel, moving in step with plunging global equities after an emergency Federal Reserve interest rate cut on Sunday did nothing to stem the panic among investors triggered by the rapidly spreading coronavirus. 3:18 p.m. March 16, 2020
Gold ends at lowest since December; silver marks worst settlement in over a decade
Gold futures fall on Monday to settle at their lowest since December, and silver futures finish at their lowest level in over a decade, as the Federal Reserve’s emergency decision to slash interest rates failed to stem losses in the stock market. 2:20 p.m. March 16, 2020
Oil prices post biggest weekly percentage drop since 2008
Oil prices edge higher on Friday, but post the biggest weekly drop since 2008 following a brutal selloff sparked by a Saudi-Russian price war and the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. 3:31 p.m. March 13, 2020
Gold futures log largest weekly loss in more than 8 years
Gold futures ends sharply lower for a fourth straight session on Friday, with for a loss of more than 9% for the week—the largest since September 2011. 2:42 p.m. March 13, 2020
