The British pound rushed higher during Tuesday’s US session, bouncing off the 1.1470 area to erase daily losses and session highs right below 1.1600 as the Americans head to the polls.The sterling has abandoned previous weakness and jumped to session highs near 1.1600. the pair is trading at 1.158 at …
Read More »Dow rallies 500 points as investors anticipate midterm election results
Stocks rose Tuesday as investors awaited the results of the US midterm elections, which could impact future levels of government spending and regulation.The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 522 points, or 1.6%, on track for its third straight up day. The S&P 500 rose 1.2%. The Nasdaq Composite was 1.5% …
Read More »EUR/USD jumps to session highs on retreating US dollar
The dollar dives with all eyes on the US mid-term elections. So, the euro has squeezed higher on Tuesday’s US trading to hit session highs at 1.0550 with the US dollar dropping suddenly versus rivals. From a wider perspective, however, the pair has been moving without a clear direction, both …
Read More »Gold jumps to 5-week high, approaching $1700
Gold price creeps higher amid the lack of US economic data as investors observe the results of the US mid-term elections and October’s CPI. Treasury yields are lower on the day, while expectations for a 50 bps rate hike by the Fed stood above 50%. Gold price is subdued as …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session 07/11/2022
The US dollar began the trading week, on Monday, with an attempt to recover the gains lost before Friday’s closing bell. Instead, the dollar ended with losing further ground against its major rival currencies.The dollar accelerated its decline late in the US session as Wall Street picked up momentum ahead …
Read More »Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion in Bitcoin Seized
Almost one year after a billion-dollar seizure of dark web’s crypto, the same agency discovered another massive treasure hidden under a different hacker’s floorings. Dark web drugs market that is broadly known as the Silk Road was designed to be a mysterious underworld economy that avoided all governmental control. On …
Read More »ECB’s Lagarde: Inflation too high, rates to rise further
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde repeated that the cycle of interest-rate hikes has to ensure that inflation returns to the 2% target over the medium term.Meanwhile, the EUR/USD pair is on the up and traders have been of the mind that the US economy is slowing enough to allow …
Read More »Gold benefits from US dollar’s slide ahead of CPI data
Gold prices steadied on Monday near a three-week peak hit in the previous session, buoyed by a weaker dollar, while investors looked forward to U.S. inflation data later this week that could influence the size of Federal Reserve rate-hike.At the time of writing, the precious metal is trading at $1676.25. …
Read More »ECB’s Kazaks: There is no pivot
The European Central Bank’s Martins Kazaks said ”there is no pivot, we still say that inflation is a problem, and we will keep raising rates.”Kazaks has recently said that the ECB must raise interest rates much further, but that it is impossible to say how far because economic uncertainty is …
Read More »WTI rallies as US dollar impacted by risk-on
American crude oil rallies and trades at $92.24, benefiting from the US dollar which is losing ground. WTI prices resumed the upward trend that started on Friday as the US crude oil bounced up from levels right above $90 on the early trade, to reach levels past $93 for the …
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