The Perth Mint sold 29,730 troy ounces (oz) of gold, 293,732 oz of silver and 826 oz of platinum in minted product form during June 2026. Gold prices continued to soften in June, falling below the USD 4,000 level for the first time since early November 2025. Over the June quarter, gold declined by more than 14%. The recent conflict in the Middle East has ...

Runs on financial institutions are one of the salient markers of financial crises. But the role of runs in crises is a topic of longstanding debate. Runs can be seen as the key turning point, whereby even small shocks can generate severe crises with widespread bank failures. Another view is that runs are mainly a symptom of deeper rot in the financial ...

Silver prices hover near $60 in July 2026 amid 6th deficit year & booming solar/EV demand. Explore Fed policy, US-Iran deal impact & technical outlook for smart investing insights. As of July 7, 2026, prices of silver remain steady around $60 per ounce over a slow-moving weekend. Traders are assessing the metal’s fundamentally sound long-term outlook ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the June 2026 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that households’ inflation expectations increased at the short- and medium-term horizons and were unchanged at the longer-term horizon. Gas price growth expectations declined to the lowest level since August 2022. Labor market expectations improved, with job-finding expectations increasing and job-loss expectations and expectations about the unemployment rate declining. Spending growth expectations were unchanged. Respondents were more optimistic about their future household financial situations, while expectations about future credit availability deteriorated slightly. The survey was fielded from June 1 through June 30, 2026. The main findings from the June 2026 Survey are: NY Fed: June year-ahead expected inflation 3.7% vs. May's 3.5%. NY Fed: June three-year ahead expected inflation 3.3% vs. May's 3.1%, highest since June 2022. NY Fed: June five-year ahead expected inflation unchanged at 3%.

The World Gold Council expects gold to remain broadly range-bound through the second half of 2026 unless geopolitical tensions intensify or the global economy weakens more sharply than markets currently anticipate. In its Gold Mid-Year Outlook 2026, published on July 1, the industry body argues that the precious metal has entered a more balanced phase after ...

Surging imports and a rare decline in exports spiked the U.S. trade deficit to its highest level in more than a year. The goods and services deficit jumped to $77.6 billion in May, a tad less than expected, from a downwardly revised $54.6 billion in April. Despite tariffs, the trade deficit has returned to levels of late 2024, before importers began ...

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE) today announced that ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA) now operates the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Platinum and Palladium Prices and the daily auctions which set these benchmark prices, adding to its role as the administrator of the LBMA Gold and Silver Prices and auctions. In January 2026, ...

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In May, Canada's merchandise exports increased 0.9%, while imports edged down 0.2%. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade surplus with the world widened from $3.4 billion in April to $4.2 billion in May. This was the third consecutive month with a trade surplus for Canada. Total exports were up 0.9% in May to a record $77.1 billion. This represented a ...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $77.6 billion in May, up $23.0 billion from $54.6 billion in April, revised. May exports were $317.7 billion, $10.5 billion less than April exports. May imports were $395.3 billion, $12.5 billion more than April imports. The May increase ...

China's central bank reported its biggest monthly increase in gold reserves in more than two and a half years in June, official data showed on Tuesday, although bullion prices tumbled. China's central bank maintained gold purchases for a twentieth straight month, with its reserves hitting 75.44-million fine troy ounces by the end of June, versus ...

For the four weeks ending June 20, 2026, U.S. private employers added an average of 21,000 jobs per week, according to the NER Pulse, a weekly update of the monthly ADP National Employment Report (NER). Hiring slowed for a second week. These numbers are preliminary and could change as new data is added. The NER Pulse is an estimate of the week-over-week ...