COMEX gold futures stood at $2,250 per ounce, up 0.52% on the day.

Spot gold fell below $2,230 per ounce, down 0.12% on the day.

U.S. stock index losses expanded, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.63%, the S&P 500 Index falling 0.22%, and the Nasdaq Composite rising slightly by 0.04%.

Ukraine’s Economy Minister stated that Ukraine’s seaborne exports reached 11.8 million tons in March.

Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey: Wage growth remains high but most companies expect it to slow; 74% of companies believe wage growth will return to normal in 2025.

Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey: Consumers believe interest rates will fall over the next 12 months.

Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey: 52% of Canadians expect a recession in the next year, down from 61% in the fourth quarter.

Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey: 17% of businesses believe it will take more than four years for inflation to return to 2%, down from 27% in the fourth quarter.

Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey: 27% of businesses expect Canada to fall into recession within the next year, down from 38% in the fourth quarter.

Timothy Fiore, Chairman of the ISM Manufacturing Climate Survey Committee: The supplier delivery index fell slightly, and the inventory index improved, but it was still in a small contraction area. As commodity-driven costs remain unstable, the price index rose further within the range of moderate expansion.

Timothy Fiore, Chairman of the ISM Manufacturing Sentiment Survey Committee: The U.S. manufacturing industry has entered expansion for the first time since September 2022. Demand is positive, output has been strengthened, and inputs remain loose. The improvement in demand is reflected in the following aspects: the new orders index resumed expansion; the new export orders index expanded again; the backlog order index remained in the moderate contraction zone, the same as in February; the customer inventory index contracted for the fourth consecutive month and remained at a favorable level. future levels of production.

Trump Media & Technology Group fell 9.8% after the company said operating losses raised significant doubt about its ability to continue as a viable entity.

COMEX silver futures stood at $25 an ounce, up 0.34% on the day.

Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico: Inflation faces some "headwinds" that did not exist last year, and core inflation shows very strong persistence, especially in the service industry component.

According to the Syrian state news agency, explosions were heard near Damascus.

The U.S. two-year Treasury yield reached a two-week high, rising 6.5 basis points to 4.684%.

After the release of U.S. manufacturing data, U.S. Treasury bond yields rose further, with the 10-year Treasury bond yield rising 11.1 basis points to 4.305%.

The U.S. ISM output index in March was 54.6, compared with 48.4 in the previous month.