Markets are still looking for developments in Omicron as well as awaiting US data. In a widely expected move, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) slashed the banks’ Reserve Requirement Ratio (RRR) by 50bps on Monday. Eurozone’s investor sentiment keeps worsening in the final month of the year, the latest …
Read More »Gold Prices Fall With Renewed Risk Appetite And The Rise of The Dollar
Gold prices fell Monday, December 6, as appetite for less safe assets improved and the dollar rose on uncertainty over Omicron ahead of US inflation data this week. The dollar rose, making gold less attractive to holders of other currencies, while US 10-year bond yields made up for their losses. …
Read More »The Dollar is Rising as US Treasury yields Recover Some of Their Losses
The dollar rose slightly on Monday, with US Treasury yields rising from their lowest in two and a half months hit last week, after news that initial observations showed that people with the new mutant of the Coronavirus Omicron had only mild symptoms. News from South Africa’s Omicron helped turn …
Read More »Market Drivers – Asian Session 6-12-2021
The week got off to a quiet start in Asia. This morning, the People’s Bank of China set the yuan’s exchange rate against the US dollar at 6.3702 yuan per dollar. Japan’s Nikkei closed lower on Monday, dragged down by a sharp drop in SoftBank Group shares, but optimism about …
Read More »Bitcoin Below $50K After a Tough Weekend
Bitcoin hovered near $49,000 on Monday, down 1.5% on the day, as traders took losses after a grueling weekend when the world’s most popular cryptocurrency at one point lost more than 20% of its value. This trajectory brought the price of Bitcoin and the amount invested in its futures contracts …
Read More »The Turkish Lira Fell to Its Lowest Level
The Turkish lira fell 0.7% against the US dollar to return to its lowest levels, affected by continuing concerns about the monetary easing policies of the Central Bank, despite the increase in the inflation rate by more than 21%. The Turkish lira recorded 13.85 to the dollar by 06:17 GMT, …
Read More »German DAX is Facing Negative Pressure
Positive trades dominated the movements of the German DAX index, recording its highest level at the end of last week’s trading at 15,432. Technically, we tend to the negativity, but with great caution, relying on the stability of trading below the resistance level 15,250, in addition to the negative pressure …
Read More »Dow Jones Tends to The Negative
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Read More »GBP/JPY: Extends Losses
Strong negative trading dominated the movements of the pound sterling against the Japanese yen, nullifying the expected positive outlook during the previous analysis, recording a low of 148.96. On the technical side today, the pair failed to maintain the trading level above 149.70, accompanied by the negativity of Stochastic on …
Read More »Canadian Dollar Maintains Gains
The Canadian dollar maintained its gains within the expected positive outlook during the last analysis, touching the target to be achieved last Friday at 1.2850, recording its highest level at 1.2854. Technically, still witnessing intraday stability above the psychological barrier of 1.2800, accompanied by positive stimulus from the 50-day moving …
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