During a time of price weakness for a number of industrial metals, the price of graphite has held up extremely well.

Gold headed for its first weekly advance since early June as investors weighed renewed concerns over economic growth.

The gold miners’ stocks have just been slaughtered in recent months, spiraling relentlessly lower.

Global stocks are up for the sixth day and the dollar weakened from 20-year highs.

Volatile market reeling from a big short gone wrong can blow up if West imposes sanctions on Russia. And don’t expect Indonesia to fill in gaps anytime soon.

The rate hike was the first by the ECB in over a decade, and its largest since 2000.

Risks from lockdowns have prompted the Asian Development Bank to lower its economic growth forecast for China this year to 4.0%.