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Gold prices held broadly steady early on Friday after dipping the session before, drawing some support from global political tensions and a slightly weaker dollar against the yen. Japan’s economy expanded at an annualized rate of 1.9 percent in April-June, bouncing back from a contraction in the previous quarter, government data showed on Friday, in a sign its recovery momentum remained intact. Asian stock markets fell on Friday amid heightened global trade tensions, while currency markets were whipsawed by a searing selloff in Russia’s rouble after the United States slapped on new sanctions, and as economic worries sent the Turkish lira tumbling. Russia condemned a new round of U.S. sanctions as illegal on Thursday and said it had begun working on retaliatory measures after news of the curbs pushed the rouble to two-year lows over fears Moscow was locked in a spiral of never-ending sanctions. Turkey’s lira tumbled to another record low against the dollar on Thursday after a Turkish delegation returned from meeting U.S. officials in Washington with no apparent solution to a diplomatic rift that has opened up between them. North Korea on Thursday denounced U.S. calls for enforcing international sanctions despite its goodwill moves and said progress on denuclearization promises could not be expected if Washington followed an “outdated acting script”. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting that a strong economy was helping the labour market weather ongoing trade tensions between the United States and a host of other countries.
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BASE METALS:-
Copper prices moved higher in Shanghai and London in early Asian trade on Friday and were set to end the week in positive territory as the prospect of strikes at copper mines in Chile, including Escondida, the world’s largest, drew nearer. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange nudged up 0.2 percent to $6,212.50 a tonne, as of 0116 GMT, extending a 0.8 percent gain in the previous session. The main union at Chile’s Caserones copper mine said on Wednesday that a last round of labor negotiations with mine operator Lumina Copper had broken down and that a strike was imminent. Three-month aluminum on the LME was up 1 percent at $2,089 a tonne, after ending down 1.3 percent in the previous session on profit-taking. ShFE aluminum was down 0.6 percent at 14,665 yuan a tonne. On-warrant stocks of aluminum available to the market in LME-registered warehouses have fallen to 832,775 tonnes, the lowest since 2007, supporting prices.
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ENERGY:-
Crude oil futures were largely stable during mid-morning trade in Asia Friday as expectations of rising supply balanced global trade tensions, keeping prices largely unchanged after a mid-week decline. Prices retreated Wednesday after the release of data showing a smaller-than expected fall in US crude inventories and a build in US product inventories, but rising trade tensions between US and China and increasing output by OPEC producer Iraq was keeping prices in a tight range Friday. In response to the latest round of US tariffs on Chinese imports, China Wednesday announced it would impose a 25% tariff on $16 billion worth of US goods from August 23. This is expected to include US gasoline and diesel. In Iraq, crude oil production hit a 13-month high in July at 4.46 million b/d, the country's State Oil Marketing Organization said Thursday. Iraq has consistently reported production above 4.36 million b/d since last September. The totals include output from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. Iraq said it exported 3.875 million b/d in July, up 25,000 b/d from June, and the highest level since January 2017. Iraq reported its highest crude oil production in 13 months in July to 4.46 million b/d, underpinning market-watchers' anticipation over potentially stronger supplies into H2 2018.
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