Gold prices rose on Wednesday as the dollar retreated from a one-month peak after comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell deemed less hawkish. By 0744 GMT, spot gold rose 0.4 percent to $1880.97 an ounce, and US gold futures rose 0.4 percent to $1880.10. Lower interest rates benefit gold …
Read More »Oil jumps for the third day
Oil prices rose in early trading on Wednesday, extending gains from the past two days, as the dollar fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appeared less hawkish on interest rates than markets had expected, and as US crude inventories fell surprisingly. Brent crude futures rose 11 cents, or 0.1 …
Read More »Japanese Nikkei index is falling affected by weak profits in tech
Japan’s Nikkei fell on Wednesday amid heavy selling in stocks of major technology companies such as Nintendo and SoftBank Group after disappointing financial results, dashing any hopes of capitalizing on Tuesday night’s gains on Wall Street. Investment group SoftBank fell 5.1% after posting a quarterly loss, while video game maker …
Read More »Dow Jones is making strong gains 8/2/2023
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Read More »CAD retest support 8/2/2023
The Canadian dollar found a strong selling point around the required target to be touched yesterday at 1.3470, recording its highest level at 1.3470, to start a rapid decline to the downside, to retest the support level of 1.3380, to witness the intraday movements of the pair around the mentioned …
Read More »GBP having a hard time rising 8/2/2023
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Read More »Oil touches the bullish target and the positivity remains 8/2/2023
US crude oil futures prices jumped to achieve noticeable gains within the expected upward path during the previous report, surpassing the required retest target of 76.60, recording a high of $77.55 per barrel. Technically, we continue to suggest the bullish daily direction, relying on the positive impulse coming from the …
Read More »Gold repeating bullish chances 8/2/2023
Limited positive attempts by gold prices to compensate for their recent losses, as yesterday’s movements witnessed an upward variation affected by the speech of the Federal Reserve Chairman, explaining yesterday that we may witness fluctuation in prices at the time of the speech, to record its highest level of 1884 …
Read More »Euro needs to break support to confirm negativity 8/2/2023
Negative trades dominated the pair’s movements within the negative technical outlook, as we expected during the previous technical report, heading towards the first target to be achieved at 1.0660, recording its lowest level at 1.0665. On the technical side, the pair tried to compensate for the losses during the Federal …
Read More »Investors want to hear Powell’s thoughts on the latest employment data
Of particular interest to stock investors, today is what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has to say at an event organized by The Economic Club of Washington DC. But, most importantly, they want to know his thoughts on the latest Labor Department report, which showed US payrolls grew by more …
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