A spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Iran has received the United States’ response to the draft agreement proposed by the European Union.The Iranian official has also said Tehran has started assessing the US comments on the draft deal. With the initial market reaction to this headline, …

US Pending home sales dropped 19.9% in July compared with July 2021. This economic reading is a a measure of signed contracts on existing homes. The figure fell along eight out of the past nine months as rising mortgage rates made housing less affordable.Pending home sales, a measure of signed …

Some economists advise stock investors to completely forget about a dovish Fed and, instead, to get used to aggressive interest-rate hikes. The summer rally in stocks finally crossed the finish line, this week, as investors reconsidered an overly optimistic view that the US central bank would pivot away from outsized …

The British pound fell to its lowest since mid-July against the dollar yesterday as soaring energy and a summer of strikes highlighted the UK cost of living crisis and intensified fears for more economic slowdown.last Friday, amid worries around Britain’s hot inflation and declining economy, the sterling recorded its biggest …

Analysts have warned that failure to reach a deal concerning crude oil output would mean that oil will continue to act as a runaway train, as even slowing demand growth would still also continue to squeeze the world’s spare capacity. Oil prices rallied on Tuesday while Saudi Arabia is warning …

With a big deal of market volatility, gold prices have pushed to session highs as the housing market, an important pillar of US economic growth, continued to weaken as consumers bought fewer new homes than expected last month. The S&P Global flash PMI reading also has benefited the precious metal …

US dollar tumbles after weak economic data. US PMI S&P Global shows the lowest reading in more than a year. The AUD/USD pair finds resistance around 0.6960 and losses momentum.The asset also broke above 0.6900 after the release of US economic data and peaked at 0.6962, the highest level since …

The GBP/USD pair jumps from YTD lows after US economic data reignited recession fears. US S&P Global PMIs were mixed, though reignited recession fears.The GBP/USD is trading at 1.1860, after hitting a YTD low at 1..1716, so the major swang more than 100 pips as a reaction to the abovementioned …

The Dow fell 121 points, or 0.37%. The S&P 500 lost 0.03% and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.17%. Healthcare, real estate and utilities were the worst performers in the S&P 500. Meanwhile, energy was the biggest winner in the broader market index, up 4% on the back of rising oil …

According latest ‘flash’ PMI™ data from S&P Global, US private sector firms signaled a sharper fall in business activity during August. The decrease in output was the fastest seen since May 2020 and solid overall. The rate of contraction also outpaced anything recorded outside of the initial pandemic outbreak since …