US durable goods numbers is the only US economic data release today. Big US economic data releases is on 30th September. (Q2 US GDP, September ADP job numbers among others) and also on 1st October and 2nd October.
In the second half of September fears of a big second wave of coronavirus in Eurozone and UK has resulted in gains for US dollar Index, sell off in gold and silver and rise and slight rise in US bond yields.
Russia is considering raising mineral-extraction taxes on mining companies to narrow a budget deficit of 4 percent of GDP, reports Bloomberg. The Finance Ministry proposed more than tripling taxes for extracting most metal and fertilizers for next year. This is a threat to Russian mining companies and would increase costs.
In the meantime, for all of you Fed-followers, not only did they state their intentions to keep rates near zero for the next three years, but they even significantly increased their buying this past week to $68 billion in open market operations.
