The Conference Board published fresh Consumer Confidence Index data on Tuesday showing a decline to 100.2 in November from (revised from 102.5) 102.2 in October.Similarly, the Present Situation Index edged lower to 137.4 versus the previous reading at 138.9. in addition, the Expectations Index fell to 75.4 from 78.1 in …

Wall Street spends more than ever on technology designed to keep an eye on traders after regulators extracted record fines from several banks worldwide for confronting lapses in monitoring communications. The industry will spend about $1.8 billion on surveillance technology in 2022, up by 20% from 2021, according to Coalition …

On the surface everything revealed by Monday’s Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index reading is pointing in the direction the Federal Reserve wants to see. Employment is cooling and inflation pressures are giving signals fading, though, in reality, this is not the case with the US economy at large.In reality, order volumes …

The US session has been a big arena for volatility with beginning of the trading week. The US dollar has managed to edge higher up to 106.74 on Monday, slightly recovering from a three-and-a-half month low of 105.32 as investors are concerned about the pro global economic slowdown and the …

“The successive shocks to global supply chains from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine could ‘herald a shift’ to an era of more volatile inflation and force central banks to guard against it with tighter monetary policy,” Fed vice chair Lael Brainard said in remarks released on Monday by …

At the time of writing, EUR/USD is down some 0.29% falling to a low of 1.0338; sliding from a higher of 1.0496. Risk currencies, such as the Euro are under considerable pressure as protests against COVID restrictions in China weighed on the overall market sentiment.The violent protests in major Chinese …

Gold continues to decline starting the beginning of the US trading session on Monday, affected by the rise of the US dollar after changing its direction due to the markets’ focus on the current events in China.Gold futures fell to $ 1740 per ounce, versus the previous closing at $ …

The Canadian dollar extended its losses amid the market’s prevalent risk-off sentiment. Canada printed a deficit on its current account and this news could constitute a headwind for the Canadian dollar.The Canadian dollar extended its losses to two straight days, though it trimmed some of its losses after the USD/CAD …

The US central bank needs to raise interest rates a bit further in order to maintain control over the country’s hot inflation in order to bring it back down toward the central bank’s 2% goal according to St. Louis Fed President James Bullard.On Monday, Bullard said that rates need to …

Wall Street’s indexes fell on Monday amid growing concerns about protests in China against the government’s strict COVID-19 restrictions, although Amazon’s gains helped limit losses as Cyber Monday sales are closer to record figures.Amazon’s shares rose 2% following an industry report that spending on Cyber Monday, the biggest US online …