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Gold price clings to decent gains above 0.15% during the mid-North American session on Tuesday, amid risk aversion, alongside overall US Dollar (USD) strength across the board.

Germany is first up to bat today with its consumer price index, hitting off a week of big inflation data drops around the globe, while market participants are also keeping an ear out for more U.S. Federal Reserve speakers taking the podium on Tuesday. Europe's largest economy looks set to match its June 0.3% increase in consumer spending, something that's likely to buttress expectations of a pause at the European Central Bank's next interest rate meeting in September. Still, inv...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Brigid Riley Germany is first up to bat today with its consumer price index, hitting off a...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Brigid Riley Germany is first up to bat today with its consumer price index, hitting off a week...

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Alun John.   U.S. equity markets saw their first positive day in August on Monday, but then along came Chinese trade data. Nasdaq and S&P500...

Italy's 40% windfall tax on banks' net interest income, and Moody's Monday downgrade of several U.S. banks were not helping investor sentiment either. China's imports and exports fell much faster than expected in July, data on Tuesday showed, with imports down 12.4% year-on-year, missing a forecast fall of 5% in a Reuters poll and off a 6.8% decline in June. Parsing the export data, David Chao, global market strategist at Invesco, says the miss was driven by lower prices ra...

Despite economic uncertainty, half of Canadian workers plan to look for a new job in the first six ...

Holding off for that long. obviously bernanke is not going to come out and say just that, but the market will be listening very closely to anything that the statement says that would allude to these better-than-expected numbers. theres still a debate as to whether gdp is growing. retail sales were up 1.1%. the strongest gain since last september. we also heard from small businesses. the national association of small business out with its optimism survey and that showed the biggest jump in a year...