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Breaking: HK–SGE Deal Advances Gold’s Collateral Repo Path
Hong Kong and the Shanghai Gold Exchange will launch a cross-border gold clearing system, creating a central infrastructure for custody recognition, delivery certainty, and settlement efficiency. Officials frame the move as market development, but its strategic impact is deeper. The agreement directly supports gold’s evolution into repo-eligible liquidity within emerging multipolar financial architecture.
Breaking: India Attacks US Stablecoins, Seeks To Combine BRICS Money
India’s central bank has proposed linking BRICS CBDCs to enable cross-border trade and tourism payments. The plan builds on earlier BRICS interoperability goals and reflects concerns about stablecoins undermining monetary control. While framed as efficiency-driven, the initiative signals a coordinated push toward alternative settlement infrastructure that could gradually weaken dollar dominance.
New China Exchange Eating CME PGM Volumes
The Guangzhou Futures Exchange has introduced platinum and palladium futures to build domestic price discovery and risk management for Chinese industry. The exchange has no formal Russian affiliation, and Russia’s role remains limited to physical supply influence. For now, GFEX remains largely a speculative venue, but its existence signals growing competitive pressure on CME.
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Data on Deck: PCE
MONDAY, JAN. 19None scheduled, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
TUESDAY, JAN. 20None scheduled
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2110:00 amConstruction spending (delayed report)Oct.--0.2%+10:00 amPending home salesDec.--3.3%
THURSDAY, JAN. 228:30 amInitial jobless claimsJan. 178:30 amGDP (first revision)Q34.3%
FRIDAY, JAN. 238:30 amPersonal income (delayed report)Nov.0.4%++8:30 amPersonal spending (delayed report)Nov.0.4%++8:30 amPCE index (delayed report)Nov.--0.3%++8:30 amPCE (year-over-year)--2.8%++8:30 amCore PCE indexNov.0.2%++8:30 amCore PCE (year-over-year)--2.8%++10:00 amConsumer sentiment (final)Jan.54.09:45 amS&P flash U.S. services PMIJan.52.59:45 amS&P flash U.S. manufacturing PMIJan.51.8
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MONDAY, JAN. 19None scheduled, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
TUESDAY, JAN. 20None scheduled
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2110:00 amConstruction spending (delayed report)Oct.--0.2%+10:00 amPending home salesDec.--3.3%
THURSDAY, JAN. 228:30 amInitial jobless claimsJan. 178:30 amGDP (first revision)Q34.3%
FRIDAY, JAN. 238:30 amPersonal income (delayed report)Nov.0.4%++8:30 amPersonal spending (delayed report)Nov.0.4%++8:30 amPCE index (delayed report)Nov.--0.3%++8:30 amPCE (year-over-year)--2.8%++8:30 amCore PCE indexNov.0.2%++8:30 amCore PCE (year-over-year)--2.8%++10:00 amConsumer sentiment (final)Jan.54.09:45 amS&P flash U.S. services PMIJan.52.59:45 amS&P flash U.S. manufacturing PMIJan.51.8
