NEW YORK (Reuters) -Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Alden Bentley, Editor in Charge, Americas Finance and Markets Jamie McGeever is enjoying some well-deserved time off, but the Reuters markets team will still keep you up to date on what's happening in markets. U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell steadied the market, which has been whipsawed in...

The claim that JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( JPM ) fixed silver prices has fueled heated debates among retail investors. Here's a timely look at the facts behind the controversy as silver hits new all-time highs.  Shares of the SLV ETF are soaring. See the details here.  The conspiracy theory that gained traction in online forums, such as 4chan and...

(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Alden Bentley NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Alden Bentley, Editor in Charge, Americas Finance and Markets Jamie McGeever is enjoying some well-deserved time off, but the Reuters markets team will still keep you up to date...

BEIJING, Oct 15 (Reuters) - China's consumer prices fell in September while producer deflation persisted, as prolonged domestic weakness and renewed trade tensions weighed on consumer and business confidence. The consumer price index (CPI) dipped 0.3% last month from a year earlier, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Wednesday, versus a 0.2% fall in a Reuters poll of economists....