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Indian state refiners are back to buying Iraqi crude that would have to transit the Strait of Hormuz, in a sign that the world’s third-largest crude oil importer seeks to bring supply from the Middle East after the tentative reopening of the chokepoint. State-owned Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), which operates a 300,000-barrels-per-day refinery in southern India, has chartered a tanker to load crude from Iraq, sources from the shipping industry told Reuters on Tuesday....

(RTTNews) - Gold prices fell toward $4,100 an ounce on Tuesday on the back of firm U.S. yields and a steady dollar.

Shell expects to have booked significantly higher oil and LNG trading results in the second quarter of the year as the Iran war drove extreme volatility in energy commodity markets. Shell expects its trading and optimization result in the integrated gas division to be significantly higher in the second quarter than in the first quarter, the UK-based supermajor said in an update note on Tuesday, ahead of reporting detailed Q2 figures on July 30.   The trading and optimization results in the...

The Fed’s rate hike expectations limit gold’s rally potential. Capital inflows into ETFs and central bank purchases are supporting the gold price. The US dollar failed to capitalise on the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. Reports of a tanker incident in the Strait of Hormuz are putting US-Iran negotiations at risk. Nevertheless, […] The post Gold: Does It Have the Momentum to Set New Records? appeared first on ActionForex.

USD/JPY is holding near 161.84 on Tuesday, with the yen close to 40-year lows. Pressure on the Japanese currency remains as market participants continue to bet against it, with no visible currency interventions from Japanese authorities having materialised. At the same time, investors are closely monitoring potential action from Tokyo. Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama […] The post Yen Still Under Pressure: Markets Await Action from Authorities appeared first on ActionForex.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI), futures on NYMEX, trades 1% higher to near $69.40 during the European trading session on Tuesday.

Dow Jones futures gain as investors pull profits from volatile tech stocks and rotate capital into safer assets.

Two very large crude carriers loaded with Saudi crude are heading for the Strait of Hormuz in the latest sign of recovering traffic via the vital oil chokepoint. The tankers are owned by Japanese companies, Reuters said in a report citing data from Kpler and LSEG. According to the Kpler data, the tankers, operated by Nippon Yusen KK and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, had loaded Saudi crude on March 1, after which they got stuck in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran shut down traffic through the waterway....

Gold is attempting to break its medium-term trend, with the latest US labour market data acting as the main catalyst. The US employment report released on 2 July came in noticeably weaker than expected, with the pace of hiring slowing to its lowest level in several months. This may have dampened expectations of a near-term […] The post Gold Resumes Its Advance Following the US Labour Market Report appeared first on ActionForex.

Gulf oil producers are in a race to offer discounts to entice buyers, with Saudi Arabia’s latest price cut for Asian importers the sharpest in decades but unlikely to boost sales. Saudi Arabia yesterday cut its official selling price for crude to Asian buyers by as much as $11 per barrel, Reuters reported, but other Gulf exporters are cutting even deeper in order to sell their barrels that have sat in the Gulf for over three months. “The sharp month-on-month cuts to Saudi term OSPs came as...