Bank of England BoE policymaker Catherine Mann said on Monday that the of increase rate gradual pace has not sufficiently tempered expectations.BoE Chief Economist Huw Pill also argued that a fast and forceful tightening potentially by a hold or reversal was superior to a gradualist approach.Mann noted that “Long-term expectation …

French President Emmanuel Macron announced EU member states could satisfy gas storage targets, having 92-93% of the storage capacity already filled.Macron’s statements came after his phone talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Markets paid little attention to these comments and EUR/USD was last losing 0.3% on the day at 0.9920.Additional …

The USD/JPY modestly fell on Friday, after hitting earlier at 140.79, the highest level since 1998. The weaker US Dollar impacted the pair following the official US employment report.gold traded at $1711.40 versus the previous closing price at $1696. Although gold was relieved by $20 rally after the key US …

Under pressure from central bankers determined to quash inflation even at the cost of economic slowdown or even recession, global bonds fell into their first bear market in decades.The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Total Return Index has fallen more than 20% from its peak that was recorded in 2021. Officials from …

At the time of writing, gold is trading at $1711.40 versus the previous closing price at $1696. Although gold was relieved by $20 rally after the key US jobs data, traders opt to stay cautious because of the generally negative macroeconomic data as well as the current gold’s dangerous technical …

Crude oil gained 0.64 cents on Friday and trades at $87.25 versus Thursday’s close at $86.61. Crude prices rallied, on Friday, on the US session’s weaker dollar, declining US oil rigs by 9, in addition to retreating US-Iran talks. The US State Department said that the latest Iranian response in …

Bitcoin gained 0.8% in the minutes after the US jobs report was released. The weaker growth gives the Fed sufficient cover to reconsider the more hawkish stance at the US central bank’s next monetary policy meeting in September, this, consequently will relieve the pressure from risky assets ranging from US …

Fed Chief Jerome Powell lately curbed his long-lived optimism that policymakers can eventually carry out a soft landing for the US economy. But as signs of a recession accumulate, the Fed’s new objective has changed into avoiding a painful crash.Powell signaled that the Fed will adopt monetary policy tightening for …

The Japanese currency has enjoyed a long safe haven and safe investment status in a financial world with plenty of uncurtaining, but as the yen fell to its lowest level against the US dollar in more than two decades this week, analysts have speculated that its safe haven status may …

Finance ministers from the G7 announced an agreement Friday to impose a cap on the price importers pay for Russian oil, in a bid to shrink a key source of revenue the Kremlin uses to finance its war in Ukraine.“We seek to establish a broad coalition in order to maximize …