Stocks steady as Dow gains offset AI weakness, while hot PPI keeps Fed risk in play and lower Treasury yields support gold's recovery.
After a solid overnight rally, rising inflation fears are limiting gold's recovery Thursday, as higher producer prices show that the growing threat is unlikely to abate anytime soon.The headline Producer Price Index (PPI) jumped 1.3% in September, following August's revised 0.5% increase, the U.S. Labor Department announced Thursday. The latest headline data was significantly hotter than expected, as economists had forecast a 0.6% increase.
Spot gold and silver prices are sharply lower in late-afternoon U.S. trading Thursday, as hotter wholesale inflation, a crude-oil surge and a jump in Treasury yields overwhelmed safe-haven demand tied to the U.S.-Iran war.
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