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Russian rouble flat vs US dollar, compromises vs China's yuan
The Russian rouble compromised a little versus China's yuan and was flat against the U.S. dollar in thin trade on Friday. At 1100 GMT, the rouble was flat at 97.40 against the dollar. It damaged 0.2% to 13.55 versus the yuan, according to LSEG information. The rouble weakened by 0.4% to 106.40 versus the euro. Brent petroleum, an international standard for Russia's. primary export, increased more than 2% to $74.53 a barrel after reports. that Iran was preparing a retaliatory strike on Israel. Western sanctions imposed on the Moscow Stock Market. ( MOEX) and its cleaning representative, the National Cleaning Centre, on. June 12 stopped all trade in dollars and euros at MOEX, making. the yuan the most-traded foreign currency in Russia. Sell dollars and euros has shifted to the. over-the-counter (OTC) market, obscuring price data. One-day rouble-dollar futures, which trade on the Moscow. exchange and are a guide for OTC market rates, were up 0.8% at. 97.51. The reserve bank's official currency exchange rate, which it. computes utilizing OTC information, was set at 97.02 to the dollar.
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Gold and silver prices edge up after profit-taking
Gold and silver costs increased on Friday, recuperating from profittaking during the previous session, while investors braced for U.S. payrolls information for further ideas about the Federal Reserve's rates of interest outlook. Area gold added 0.1% to $2,745.99 per ounce by 1043 GMT. Prices fell by 1.5% on Thursday as some traders took earnings after the rare-earth element hit a record high of $2,790.15. In spite of Thursday's correction, gold stays in a strong uptrend with numerous favorable aspects aligned to drive even more gains, said Hugo Pascal, rare-earth elements trader at InProved. Bullion rose by 4% in October due to investor stress and anxiety about the U.S. Nov. 5 governmental election. Polls suggest a close race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The marketplace is also waiting for the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, due at 1230 GMT, for ideas about the health of the world's largest economy. The Fed is extensively anticipated to provide a. 25-basis-point rate cut next week. Citi said in a note that gold costs were on track to hit. $ 3,000 per ounce over the next 6 months in the middle of a degeneration. in the U.S. labour market and need from physically backed gold. exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Worldwide gold ETFs, which had 3 consecutive years of. outflows against a background of high rates of interest, saw a 5th. successive month of inflows in September. On the other hand, high gold costs, which have risen 33% so far. this year and are heading for the largest annual development given that. 1979, continue to impact physical need in significant Asian areas. In China, gold intake fell by 11% in the very first nine. months of 2024. In India, the share of coins and bars in sales. is increasing as purchasers hesitate to pay increased making. charges for jewellery. To name a few metals, area silver rose 0.3% to $32.75. per ounce, while platinum got 0.5% to $992.90 and. palladium added 1.0% to $1,117.10.
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Exxon's $8.6 billion revenue beats as volume offsets price weakness
Exxon Mobil on Friday beat Wall Street's 3rd quarter earnings estimate, increased by strong oil output in its first full quarter that includes volumes from U.S. shale manufacturer Pioneer Natural Resources. Oil market revenues have been squeezed this year by slowing demand and weak margins on fuel and diesel. But Exxon's year-over-year profit fell 5%, a much smaller drop than at competitors BP and TotalEnergies, which posted sharply lower quarterly results. The U.S. oil producer reported earnings of $8.61 billion, down from $9.07 billion a year earlier. Its $1.92 per share earnings topped Wall Street's outlook of $1.88 per share, on greater oil and gas production and costs restrictions. We had a number of production records in the quarter, said financing chief Kathryn Mikells, citing an about 25% year-on-year increase in oil and gas output, to 4.6 million barrels daily. Exxon shares increased about 1.9% in premarket trading to $ 119 per share. Exxon earlier this month had actually flagged operating revenue likely fell, leading Wall Street analysts to shave their quarterly per share earnings outlook by nearly a penny. The results consisted of Exxon's very first complete quarter of production following its acquisition in May of Pioneer Natural Resources. The $60 billion deal drove production in the top U.S. shale basin to almost 1.4 million barrels daily of oil and gas, helping get rid of a 17% decrease in average oil rates in the quarter ended Sept. 30. Exxon revealed it raised its quarterly dividend by 4% after generating complimentary cash flow of $11.3 billion, well above analysts' price quotes. Competitors Saudi Aramco and Chevron have had to obtain this year to cover shareholder returns after increasing dividends and buybacks to bring in investors. Exxon did not provide a fourth quarter outlook, however stated it prepares to offer financiers with a revised production forecast next month. OPEC in December may include 180,000 barrels daily of extra supply to a market with an unsure demand outlook. The market is worried about oil supply outrunning need. Rates dropped over the summer and stay about 12%. listed below June's average. Exxon's incomes from producing gas and diesel were. $ 1.3 billion, below $2.44 billion in the very same quarter a year. ago as weak margins and a refinery failure mauled fuel results. An Illinois refinery went offline for almost a month. during the quarter, a shutdown that experts estimate hit. operating earnings by about $250 million. Refining margins definitely came down in the quarter. If you take a look at total outcomes for the refining organization, we. feel pretty good, stated Exxon's Mikells. Per system refining. margins considering that 2019 have actually about doubled on a constant margin. basis, she stated. Make money from Exxon's chemical company, which has been. pressed by industry overcapacity for 2 years, increased in the. quarter to $893 million, compared to $249 million a year earlier, on. a slight boost in margins. We are in a much better position
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Exxon's $8.6 billion revenue beats as volume offsets rate weakness
Exxon Mobil on Friday beat Wall Street's 3rd quarter earnings price quote, boosted by strong oil output in its first complete quarter that consists of volumes from U.S. shale manufacturer Pioneer Natural Resources. Oil market revenues have been squeezed this year by slowing need and weak margins on fuel and diesel. However Exxon's year-over-year revenue fell 5%, a much smaller drop than at rivals BP and TotalEnergies, which posted dramatically lower quarterly outcomes. The U.S. oil producer reported earnings of $8.61 billion, down from $9.07 billion a year ago. Its $1.92 per share profit topped Wall Street's outlook of $1.88 per share, on higher oil and gas production and costs constraints. We had a number of production records in the quarter, stated financing chief Kathryn Mikells, mentioning an about 25% year-on-year boost in oil and gas output, to 4.6 million barrels daily. Exxon earlier this month had flagged operating profit likely fell, leading Wall Street analysts to shave their quarterly per share profits outlook by nearly a penny. The outcomes consisted of Exxon's very first complete quarter of production following its acquisition in May of Pioneer Natural Resources. The $60 billion offer drove production in the leading U.S. shale basin to nearly 1.4 million barrels per day of oil and gas, helping get rid of a 17% decline in typical oil costs in the quarter ended Sept. 30. Exxon divulged it raised its quarterly dividend by 4% after creating complimentary cash flow of $11.3 billion, well above analysts' quotes. Competitors Saudi Aramco and Chevron have actually had to borrow this year to cover shareholder returns after improving dividends and buybacks to bring in financiers.
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2 dead, 6 hurt in shooting at downtown Orlando in the middle of Halloween event, regional media say
Two people passed away and six were injured in a shooting in the downtown area of Orlando, Florida in the middle of Halloween festivities, numerous local U.S. media reported on Friday, including that a teenage suspect had been arrested. Individuals in Halloween outfits stood in the incident location as emergency workers addressed casualties laying in the street a video posted on Instagram, validated , revealed. The hurt people were taken to health center and are stable, regional media stated. The shooting occurred late during the night within Orlando's. entertainment district where numerous people were commemorating. Halloween. Orlando Authorities Chief Eric Smith told an interview that. the alleged gunman, a 17-year-old kid, had been apprehended, CNN. reported. He is being interviewed by investigators, Chief Smith said. He pretty much strolled into downtown, walked into the street. and did what he did, local U.S. media Fox 13 Tampa Bay said,. estimating the cops chief. The Orlando police department had actually formerly stated in an X. post that it was performing a shooting investigation in Downtown. Orlando. The department did not immediately respond to a. Reuters' request for comment.
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MORNING quote AMERICAS-Amazon relaxes the horses, payrolls due
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With next week's U.S. election now controling thinking, the last 2 megacap revenues reports of the week appear to have relaxed the stock exchange rather and a possibly loud October payrolls report is up next. Amazon and Apple got various market receptions to their updates over night - the remaining 2 of five Splendid Seven firms reporting today. Amazon stock jumped 6% on forecast-beating profit and sales, with the company suggesting healthy lead to the vacation quarter thanks to its faster shipping times and a move to stock lower-cost items. It was a relief to markets that saw fresh doubts today about the speed with which the substantial spend on artificial intelligence was translating into returns for Huge Tech giants. Apple underwhelmed with its beat and the stock is off about 1% before Friday's bell. Its AI-enhanced iPhone made a strong start, pressing quarterly sales ahead of expectations. However a. modest profits projection raised questions about the vacation. season and a decline in China sales bothered some analysts. Ailing chipmaker Intel livened up, nevertheless, with a. 7% rally overnight on optimism about a turn-around in its PC and. server companies. The market-wide upshot today is that index futures. look set to gain back a few of Thursday's heavy losses. And more than 60% through the current earnings season, the. combined annual revenue growth quote for the S&P 500 has. actually picked up rate to as much as 7.5% - well up on. pre-season projections of just over 5%. With sovereign bonds markets focusing more attention. upset by post-budget British gilts, U.S. Treasuries stayed relatively calm as the October work. report is due later Friday, the dead heat election race. enters its last weekend, and a second Federal Reserve interest. rate cut of the year is expected next week. Although a month of storms may misshape the numbers, a. Reuters survey showed nonfarm payrolls probably increased by. 113,000 tasks last month after increasing by 254,000 in September and. jobless rate is forecast to stay the same at 4.1%. Today's private sector payrolls upgrade for October and. weekly jobless data can be found in hotter than numerous had bet on, but. inflation readings were calm sufficient to keep futures confident. the Fed will provide a quarter-point post-election rate cut next. Thursday. The individual usage expenditures (PCE) rate index rose. 0.2% in September, driven primarily by services but with products. costs really falling outright for a second successive month. A yearly 2.1% gain in the headline PCE price index was the. smallest since February 2021 and near to the Fed's target. ISM and S&P International release October U.S. manufacturing. surveys later Friday too. In Europe, British gilts and the pound cooled down somewhat. on Friday after a torrid week that saw 10-year yields strike their. greatest in a year following heavy tax and borrowing plans in the. new Labour government's very first budget plan. Fretting on Thursday was a slide in the pound. even as yield premiums on gilts over other major. federal government bonds increased and cash markets got rid of at least. one Bank of England rate cut from next year's horizon. Markets still see an 80% chance the BoE will deliver its. second rate cut of the year next Thursday although its 5% policy. rate is now expected to remain above 4% through 2025 - nearly. half a point higher than the expected Fed rate at the end of. next year. Helping calm the piece on Friday, credit scores firm S&P. said Britain's public finances were constrained after the. budget however added it had actually not modified its projections for loaning. We have not changed our headline deficit spending projections. as a result of the budget statement, partly due to the fact that our. existing projections currently include wider deficits that show. lingering public spending pressures, it included. Somewhere else, oil prices edged greater and world stocks. were combined - with European indexes advancing but Japan's Nikkei. underperforming with losses of more than 2% on a. somewhat stronger yen and the previous day's Wall Street slide. Big U.S. oil firms top the earnings journal later on. Market bets on a U.S. election win for Republican Donald. Trump - Bitcoin, Trump Media and gold - were pared back. The dollar index was firmer. Key developments that must provide more direction to U.S. markets in the future Friday:. * United States October employment report, October producing studies. from ISM and S&P Global. * US corporate incomes: Exxon, Chevron, PPL, Dominion Energy, T. Rowe Rate, Cboe Global Markets, Church & & Dwight, Cardinal. Health, Waters, LyondellBasell Industries, Charter. Communications
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Hedge funds search for trades in dead-heat US election
Hedge funds and other investors are looking for trades that make money from a win by Republican governmental prospect Donald Trump, however also provide limited downside in case of a victory by Vice President Kamala Harris. As the almost deadlocked race nears, some are looking for so-called asymmetric trades including bitcoin or the yuan, assets which could yield huge revenues if Trump wins however would not trigger big losses if the wagers are incorrect. Trading the election is hard provided how tight it is, stated Edoardo Rulli, head of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions. Some wagering sites have actually preferred Trump, which has produced momentum behind the so-called Trump trades. Others are now forecasting those trades, which include bets that might benefit from a Trump victory, might lose momentum or reverse in the case of a Harris win. Trades that might yield greater gains than losses in whichever scenario plays out include a long position in bitcoin, stated David Kalk, founder at hedge fund Reflexive Capital. He said the prospective bitcoin benefit would be two to three times the cash which is endangered if Trump wins, as he expects a more friendly regulative approach to crypto under the former president. The unfavorable price action we expect (in. case of a Harris' success) simply appears much smaller sized than the. upside of a Trump win, Kalk stated. Macro hedge fund MKP Capital Management's founder Patrick. McMahon said he sees shorting the yuan versus the dollar as an. asymmetric trade, provided the losses the Chinese currency might face. if tariffs were enforced. Some have actually placed neutral bets, such as pairing a brief. position on a stock with a long one, decreasing directional. direct exposure, stated Robert Christian, chief investment officer at K2. Advisors. By doing this gains in one trade could balance out losses in. another. Mario Unali, head of investment advisory at Kairos Partners,. which handles a fund of hedge funds, stated trades were pivoting. to a Trump win because a success for Harris is more about the. status quo, so losses would be limited. The hedge fund industry has actually up until now published gains of 8.3% in. the very first nine months of the year, according to research study company. PivotalPath. The industry average is underperforming the S&P. 500's 20% gain, putting some hedge funds under more pressure to. embrace a more cautious stance on the race that will provide some. upside. Jon Caplis, CEO of PivotalPath, anticipates some selling ahead. of the election. They could bank those returns, and then they. might wait for weeks or months, depending on the length of time it takes. before things become clear again. TRUMP TRADE Big wagers on wagering markets have raised concerns by. social networks users about whether they were swaying the markets. or whether forecast markets were simply a better leading. indication of the race. The Trump trades included a selloff in Treasuries, the. yuan, and a rise in shares of Trump Media & & Innovation Group . Since the two candidates are still neck and neck a couple of. days from the election, some financiers question whether a few of. the trades placed on expectations of a Trump success might be. exaggerated. An average of national polls according to viewpoint survey. aggregator 538 on Thursday had Democratic presidential prospect. Kamala Harris at 48.1% versus Trump at 46.7%, a space which is 1.3. portion point smaller than on Oct. 1. At the end of the day I believe this short-term move in. Treasuries is probably overdone, stated John Luke Tyner, head of. set earnings and portfolio supervisor at Aptus Capital Advisors. If Harris wins you would probably see a breeze back lower in. long-lasting yields, but I think we're visiting it in either case,. he added. Strategists at Citi said they have actually recently left a few of. their Trump trades, including one that made money from rising. five-year inflation expectations. We have actually been taking revenues on the view that the. risk-reward is no longer compelling for some of these trades,. with prices and positioning having actually moved and, in our view,. perhaps more than surveys alone would have validated, they stated. in a note on Tuesday. A Republican sweep could worsen the bond selloff due to. higher budget deficit expectations because scenario, however there. is likewise a significant risk of a sharp turnaround in a Harris. triumph, they added.
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Angola's draft budget projections 2025 deficit of 1.65% of GDP
Angola's federal government anticipates a deficit spending of 1.65% of gross domestic product in 2025, somewhat greater than this year's predicted 1.46%. deficit, draft spending plan files showed. The draft 2025 budget plan of Africa's second-largest petroleum. exporter is based upon a $70 a barrel oil rate, according to the. documents published on the finance ministry's website. Brent crude. futures were trading around $74 a barrel on Friday. Angola's finance minister Vera Daves de Sousa informed Reuters. last week that the possibility of lower oil prices was putting a. lot of pressure on the southern African nation. The draft budget plan likewise sees economic development speeding up to. 4.1% next year from 3.3% this year, with faster development anticipated. for non-oil sectors. External funding requirements are seen at 7.09 trillion kwanzas. ($ 7.80 billion) in 2025, up from the 6.17 trillion seen in 2024. Internal funding requirements are approximated at 7.55 trillion kwanzas,. up from 3.83 trillion this year. The financing ministry approximates yearly inflation will end. next year at 16.6%, from over 29% currently. Daves de Sousa informed Reuters last week that Angola was. considering asking for a funding programme from the. International Monetary Fund. Its newest IMF program was for $3.7 billion, approved. in 2018 after worldwide crude rates tanked, decimating the. nation's earnings.
Hungary to keep Druzhba as main unrefined pipeline, foreign minister states
The Druzhba pipeline will stay Hungary's primary route for crude oil imports, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Minsk on the sidelines of a conference.
The pipeline transfers Russian crude through Belarus and Ukraine to Hungary and also Slovakia.
Supplies resumed last month to Hungary's energy business MOL 's refineries after a halt to deliveries following Kyiv's addition of Russian company Lukoil to a sanctions list in June.
In contrast to many other European Union nations, Hungary seeks to preserve close political and organization ties to Russia, consisting of dependence on Russian energy.
Together with Slovakia and the Czech Republic, it has been given an exemption from an EU embargo on Russian oil due to its lack of alternatives, however the EU has urged it to diversify its resources.
Szijjarto said in a Facebook video that Hungary has actually received 3.9 million metric lots of crude through the Druzhba pipeline and deliveries are constant.
In crude oil supplies, the Druzhba pipeline will continue to be the primary route as tests performed on the Adriatic pipeline made it clear that there are capacity imperfections, Szijjarto said.
Croatian firm Janaf, which operates the Adriatic pipeline, stated in a reply to emailed Reuters' concerns that duplicated screenings of crude oil flow on the pipeline provided accurate data about the sensible, reliable and secure capacities towards the Hungarian border at the yearly level.
The testing validated the readiness of JANAF to completely protect the supply for the 2 refineries owned by the MOL Group, it said.
Szijjarto said Hungary likewise received 6.2 billion cubic metres of Russian gas via Turkstream up until now this year, and the building of a nuclear plant by Rosatom was progressing well. The offer for that job was awarded to Rosatom without a. tender in 2014 and is delayed by years.
On Wednesday, ambassadors and defence attaches of NATO. members based in Budapest satisfied at the U.S. embassy to talk about. what Hungary describes as a policy of economic neutrality,. including its ties with Russia and China, the U.S. embassy stated.
(source: Reuters)