According to the COMEX, gold futures for October were traded at $ 2051.60/ounce, up 0.71%. It was previously traded at a session high of $2052.20/ounce. Gold may find support at $1960.00 and resistance at $2057.50. The dollar index, which measures the performance of the greenback against a basket of six …

Japanese stocks fell on Thursday as investors continued to shy away from risky bets amid a weak earnings season, but Toyota shares surged after unexpectedly avoided a loss last quarter. The Nikkei fell 0.43% to 22,418.15 points, and technology and consumer goods stocks were the most declining. The broader TOPIX …

Data from the Federal Statistics Office reported that orders for German industrial goods increased sharply in June as Europe’s largest economy began to set aside the effects of months of public isolation measures aimed at fighting the spread of the Covid-19, but volumes were still well below pre-pandemic levels. Orders …

The Bank of England’s (BOE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to leave the policy rate unchanged at 0.1% at its June policy meeting as expected. Furthermore, the BOE held the Quantitative Easing (QE) program unchanged £745 billion.

FX option expiries for Aug 6 NY cut at 10:00 Eastern Time, via DTCC, can be found below. – EUR/USD: EUR amounts 1.1700 1.2bn1.1725 1.1bn – GBP/USD: GBP amounts         1.3000 708m – USD/JPY: USD amounts          105.00 2.8bn USD105.25 660m105.60 385m105.65 630m105.75 467m105.85 380m106.00 444m106.25 945m106.50 715m 106.75 680m – AUD/USD: AUD amounts 0.7150 …

Main indexes were set to open higher on Wall Street with Disney’s quarterly earnings report and a slate of upbeat results from healthcare companies. Pre-market shares of Walt Disney jumped 6.6% and were set to reach their highest level in two months. Better-than-expected corporate results and a surge in shares …

The monthly data published by Statistics Canada on Wednesday showed that Canada’s trade deficit expanded from $1.33 billion in May to $3.19 billion in June, This reading came in better than the market expectation for a deficit of 0.9 billion.

The United States’ international trade deficit declined by $4.1 billion to $50.7 billion in June, the data published jointly by the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis showed on Wednesday. This reading followed a deficit of $54.8 billion in May and came in slightly worse than …

Employment in the US’ private sector rose by 167,000 in July, the monthly data published by the Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Research Institue revealed on Wednesday. This reading came in much worse than the market expectation for an increase of 1.5 million.  Data for June was revised up to show …

Oil prices rose on Wednesday to highest levels since early March after data showed a significant decline in US crude oil stockpiles, but fears of the second wave of Covid-19 capped the gains Brent crude rose 1.03 dollars, or 2.3%, to 45.46 dollars a barrel. WTI also rose $ 1.03, …