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The Lockdown, the Fallout and the Roadmap to Recovery
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Global Lockdown In an abrupt and unprecedented manner, the world witnessed a mass halt to global activities due to the pandemic. Governments and central banks rushed in to intervene and support the global econ...
Read MoreA Summary of Major US Earnings Reports
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets A Summary of Major US Earnings Reports IBM, Netflix Inc, Snap AT&T, and Intel Corp were among the major large-cap corporations reporting earnings.Even though the pandemic is expected to portrait a dire outlo...
Read MoreOPEC and G20 Meetings Not Guaranteed
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets On 8 March 2020, Saudi Arabia initiated an oil price war with Russia, triggering a rout in the oil market at a time where the world is facing a pandemic and many countries forced to shut down their activities a...
Read MoreFirst Quarter: Crisis, Volatility, and Opportunities
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The first quarter of 2020 was marred by unpredicted events that rattled the financial markets: Tensions between US and Iran; The extreme weather conditions across the globe as a result of climate change...
Read MoreThe Perfect Storm Brewing in the Oil Market
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The Perfect Storm Brewing in the Oil Market The oil and gas industry has been undergoing significant challenges due to the structural shift within the industry. A pandemic-induced economic downturn and an oil pr...
Read MoreGold Is Being Liquidated
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Liquidity Crisis High levels of liquidity happen when there is both supply and demand for an asset, meaning transactions can take place easily. A market is considered to be liquid if it can absorb liquidity trad...
Read MoreUS Dollar and Gold in Tandem
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Which safe-haven to choose in 2020 – Gold or the Mighty Dollar? In times of uncertainties – be it economical, political or policy-related, investors generally seek safety with haven assets like the US...
Read More2020 Kicks off with US-Iran and Climate Change Crisis
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The start of the year was marred by the escalating tensions between the US and Iran while extreme weather conditions across the global triggered fierce debates about climate change. What do we know so far ab...
Read More2019 in a Nutshell and the Transition to a New Decade
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets If we could describe the year 2019 in one word, we believe uncertainty says it all. The world entered 2019 with a high level of ambiguity and is poised to finish the year with the same extent of uncertainties. ...
Read MoreOPEC Meeting: A Crucial Week for the Oil Market
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Thursday’s OPEC meeting will be a decisive one for the oil market. OPEC members and its allies (OPEC+) will gather on the 5th and 6th of December for the 177th meeting of the OPEC conference. This produce...
Read MoreRBA: “QE is not on our Agenda!”
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets This year’s Annual Dinner of the Australian Business Economists was probably the most important event before the year ends. In a year that saw the RBA cutting interest rates three times, the speech around...
Read MoreThe World’s Biggest IPO: Saudi Aramco
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets What do we know about the state-owned oil giant - Saudi Aramco? World’s largest company World’s biggest state-owned oil and gas companies World’s cheapest oil producer A leader in oil pr...
Read MoreGold to Silver Ratio: Is it useful to commodity CFD traders?
When digging deeper into issues relating to trading precious metals you may come across the idea of using gold to silver ratios as part of decision-making. This brief article explores what this means both in terms of definition and potential imp...
Read MoreLargest Crude Oil Reserves in the World
Venezuela At number one, we have a country which has been in turmoil in the last few months – Venezuela. Economic and social crisis have hit the South American nation and things are not looking to get better any time soon. However, it does t...
Read MoreLargest Crude Oil Reserves in the World
We have seen the price of crude oil (USOUSD) rise by about 43% since the beginning of the year, from around $44 per barrel to $63 per barrel at the time of writing this. It reached the highest level since November 2018 last week, on the 9th April...
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