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Global X rides silver's highs

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... physical supply tightness in London and policy dynamics. "While the acute tightness seen in late 2025 has eased, residual tariff uncertainty and ongoing retail participation could continue to support prices in the near term." Lin said silver miners are ...

Fed leaves rates on hold as Powell issues message to Trump

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... inflation in the system, even if those anxieties are slowly dissipating as disinflation continues in the service sector and tariff effects wind their way through the goods sector," Miller said. Powell also gave a press conference after the decision where ...

Inflation 'uncomfortably high' as it rises to 3.8%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.8% in the 12 months to December 2025, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The 3.8% annual CPI inflation to December was up from 3.4% to November," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt ...

Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Safe-haven assets are being favoured by investors with gold prices skyrocketing off the back of US President Donald Trump's rhetoric around Greenland. Global X ETFs said it has seen average weekly flows into its suite of gold ETFs increase in 2026 as ...

Danish pension fund dumps US bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A Danish pension fund is divesting all US government bonds from February 1, citing the country's growing debt crisis. Akademiker Pension, the $36 billion pension fund for academics, is selling off all its US government bond holdings, to the tune ...

Study reveals who bares brunt of US tariffs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... instead, they hit the American economy itself. The Kiel Institute found importers and consumers in the US bear 96% of the tariff burden. Although the US government intended the tariffs to target foreign businesses, the policy actually harms the domestic ...

IMF flags 'drawn out' inflation battle in Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects global inflation will continue it's decline, but Australia will buck the trend. In its more recent World Economic Outlook (WEO), the IMF said headline global inflation is expected to fall to 3.8% in 2026 ...

Trump imposes tariffs as Greenland bid escalates

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... on June 1, if the US has not been permitted to purchase Greenland. Trump made the threat on Truth Social, saying: "This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland." IG market analyst ...

Australia evades tariff shocks, CPI to surge in 2026: UN

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026
... that Australia's inflation rate will surge in 2026 and highlights that the country was left relatively unscathed by the US tariff shocks. According to the United Nations' (UN) latest World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 report, inflation will ...

Global trade a patchwork of relationships, regional priorities: Analysis

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
Global trade could prove more resilient than expected despite growth in economic nationalism and increasing tariffs, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said. After conducting new scenario analysis, BCG offered four possible models for the future of global ...