The Canadian dollar strengthened against American currency on Thursday. The CAD was able to recover from a nearly two-week low, but the move was limited as global equity markets lost ground and domestic data showed wholesale trade in November rose less than expected.Canadian wholesale trade increased by 0.5% in November …
Read More »What Legacy Has Jacinda Ardern Left Behind For New Zealand’s Economy?
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her term would end by February 7. She does not have “the energy” necessary for reelection for office on October 14. A new leader will be voted in a few days. The announcement had little impact on the NZD.The NZD/USD pair is trading …
Read More »Fed’s Brainard insists to bring inflation back to 2% target
Fed’s Vice Chair Lael Brainard said that ”there are reasons to think high inflation in the more labour sensitive “core services ex-housing” basket might reflect the pass-through of pandemic and war one-offs and not solely cyclical strength from tight labour markets.“Inflation has been declining over the past several months against …
Read More »Yen rises, US dollar falls on US mixed data
The US dollar slid on Thursday against major currencies in a choppy US trading session as data continued to indicate that the US economy is slowing down in the wake of multiple rate hikes by the Fed as investors and traders expect the central bank to pause or at least …
Read More »US Debt Ceiling Raises Economic Woes
The US Treasury Department announced the beginning of “extraordinary measures”, meaning a series of accounting measures, and even maneuvers, to avoid breaching the federal governments’ borrowing cap according to a letter to Congress by Treasury Secretary Janet YellenThe Treasury Department will adopt extraordinary measures to allow the federal government to …
Read More »On day 330 of war, nuclear threats if Russia defeated
Russia on Thursday warned that the Ukraine war will escalate if the West insists on providing Kyiv with longer-range weapons. Since the conflict broke out, the US has sent advanced and high-precision weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine to help the war-torn nation against Russian aggression. The aid included …
Read More »Are central banks’ gold purchases expected to continue?
Gold price has already touched highest that were last seen in April 2022 above $1,900. The precious metal has a bright outlook in the year ahead.The precious metal is trading at $1918.70 per ounce at the time of writing versus the previous closing price at $19043.70. 2022 was a significant …
Read More »US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims decline to 190K
There were 190,000 initial jobless claims in the week ending January 13, data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This print followed the previous week’s print of 205,000 and came in better than the market expectation of 214,000. Further details of the publication revealed that …
Read More »Novak: Russia’s oil production in January is the same pace as December
The Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak as saying on Thursday that Russian oil production in January did not decline, and that it was proceeding at the same pace as in December.
Read More »Gold shines as investors evaluate chances of slowing US rate hikes
Gold prices rose on Thursday, as investors assessed the chances of the Federal Reserve slowing the pace of raising interest rates, while the rise of the dollar curbed the gains of the yellow metal. And by 0252 GMT, gold in instant transactions increased 0.1 percent to $ 1906.01 an ounce. …
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