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Stocks dip on economic slowdown fears, Asia/Europe PMIs contract while ISM softens, Oil tumbles on demand outlook, Gold rally intact, Polkadot tumbles

US stocks are off to a lackluster as the start of a new month was filled with a bunch of reminders of how quickly the global economy is slowing down and as the risks to the outlook continue to grow. The shock contraction in China was immediately followed up with a wrath of EU manufacturing data that fell into contraction territory for the first time in almost two years. US factories are growing at the slowest pace in a couple of years, but the slower expansion was better than what most economis

01-08-2022 16:21 GMT by Edward Moya

Oil dips, gold pares gains

Attention turns to OPEC+ meeting Oil prices are lower at the start of the week as traders eye the next OPEC+ meeting on Wednesday. With the previous agreement having expired as the group has theoretically unwound all of the pandemic production cuts, attention will now shift to how OPEC+ plans to actually hit those targets and whether any further increases will be announced going forward. Not many have the capacity to do that but some potentially do and President Biden will be hoping his Middle E

01-08-2022 04:05 GMT by Craig Erlam