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Wall Street fell on Thursday after unexpectedly strong inflation data and a drop in weekly jobless claims added to fears that the Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates to tame high prices. Decline in jobless claims, showed the economy is holding up amid the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. The …

Gold is trading around $1845 per ounce at the time of writing versus the previous closing price at $1835.60. Earlier on Thursday, the precious metal’s price action headed lower, to record fifth decline in six sessions, as the US dollar rallied further following the release of stronger-than-expected U.S. producer price …

After reaching a daily high of 134.46, the USD/JPY stabilized around the 134.00 level, while bears intervened at the weekly highs and drove prices lower.The pair turned directions and suffered only slight losses of 0.08%. The USD/JPY pair is trading around 134.10s on Thursday. Negative divergence between oscillators and price …

“If evidence begins to accumulate to show that inflation is not declining in line with forecast, we are prepared to raise policy rate further, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said while testifying before the Standing Committee on Finance. USD/CAD showed no immediate reaction to these comments and was last …

The EUR/USD pair is now adding to Wednesday’s decline below 1.0700. The pair is trading at 1.0656 at the time of writing. The US Producer Prices rose more than estimated in January. Another data-led rebound of the US dollar has put the EUR/USD pair under pressure and dragged it to …

The actual figure for US retail expenditure in January much above even the most optimistic projection, contrary to what economists had anticipated. Yet, for the time being, the Federal Reserve’s vigorous campaign to manage inflation by lowering economic activity is failing.  Retail sales spiked 3.0% last month after reports that …

There were 194,000 initial jobless claims in the week ending February 11, the weekly data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This print followed the previous week’s print of 195,000 and came in slightly better than the market expectation of 200,000. Further details of the …

Standard Chartered raised its performance targets, unveiled a $1 billion share buyback program and posted a 28 percent increase in annual profit after higher global interest rates boosted its lending revenue. The bank said about 10 percent of its overall profit growth came from interest rates as central banks raised …

Gold prices stabilized on Thursday due to a slight decline in the dollar and Treasury yields, but gains remained limited due to signs of the strength of the US economy, which may allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again. And by 0920 GMT, spot gold rose 0.1 percent …

Oil prices fell on Thursday after a large build in US crude inventories, but continued to move in a narrow range as hopes for a recovery in demand from China remained in focus. And by 1042 GMT, Brent crude futures fell 36 cents, or 0.42 percent, to $ 85.02 a …