Analysts believe the EUR/USD pair is moving to the downside over the next months at a more gradual speed. They have a target of 0.95 in a twelve months perspective. Fundamentally, the US could continue to be a higher interest rate market and equities continue to appeal to foreign investors. …
Read More »Wall Street Performs Mixedly On Inflation Report
Stocks are having a mixed performance on Friday as traders looked to close out an awful week that brought the S&P 500 to a new 2022 low. The S&P 500 was up 0.55%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 52 points, or 0.18%, while the Nasdaq Composite was 1.02% higher. …
Read More »ECB’s Visco: worsened economic outlook cause for concern
European Central Bank (ECB) must continue to raise rates even though long-term inflation expectations remain anchored, ECB Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said on Friday.These comments don’t seem to be having a noticeable impact on the shared currency’s performance against its rivals. As of writing, EUR/USD was down 0.2% on …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session 29/09/2022
The US dollar ended the day unevenly across the FX board, despite Wall Street resuming its decline and trimming all Wednesday’s gains. Treasury yields remained stable, with the 10-year note yielding 3.75% and the 2-year note 4.17%.Gold trades near its weekly high at the $1,664 level, while crude oil prices …
Read More »WTI retreats on hawkish central banks
WTI has pared the first weekly gains in five as traders await more clues. Supply related fears from Russia, chatters over OPEC+ output cut favor buyers.WTI crude oil prices is pressured towards $81.00 after retreating from the weekly highs around $82.50 the previous day. Crude oil is looking for decisive …
Read More »UK increases fears of contagion risk across markets
Intense market volatility in the UK escalated recession risks and global contagion fears. The gold market is one clear example, as it is cautiously observing the developments as prices rise from 2.5-year lows.UK market’s decline continues one day after the BoE intervened in the gilt market via an emergency bond-buying …
Read More »Could gold restore safe have status?
The gold price has started to find support and is back to trading near flat on the day at around $1,660.50, at the time of writing, efficiently escaping the earlier $1,641.57 low to the day’s high of $1,664.89. The US dollar continued to ease and spared its domination over rival …
Read More »Wall Street selloff accelerates after brief break
Shares sell off began on Thursday as the dollar slightly slid and eased its domination over currency markets amid recession fears that quake the stocks and bonds markets suffering more interest rate pain.After a partial rebound on Wednesday, US stocks sharply fell on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell …
Read More »Mexican central bank raises interest rate
Mexico’s central bank said the board was unanimous on the rate decision where it raised the benchmark interest rate to 9.25% from 8.50%. The USD/MXN pair is 0.25% bid on the day at 20.1947.Key QuotesSays the balance of risks for the trajectory of inflation within the forecast horizon remains biased …
Read More »USD/CAD pares Wednesday’s losses on Fed’s hawkishness
The USD/CAD pair is gaining some 0.82% courtesy of Fed officials on Thursday as Fed’s Mester and Bullard estimate the Federal funds rate to peak around 4.5%.The Canadian economy Canada grew 0.1% MoM in July, exceeding estimations and the the USD/CAD marches firmly towards the 1.3700 figure after diving close …
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