Wall Street is off to another day in the red territory at the start of the shortened trading week as investors are grappling with earnings seasons and rising Treasury bond yields.All three major indexes opened lower, with the Dow down 400 points, or 1.1%. The broader S&P 500 dropped 1%, …

The week started in slow motion, with little action across the board. Chinese data released at the beginning of the day provided a modest boost to high-yielding assets, which changed course during European trading hours. US markets were closed due to the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, with no …

Director of Research and Development at Noor Capital and member of the US Association of Professional Technical Analysts, Mohamed Hashad, was interviewed Monday morning by Dubai Channel to comment on the most outstanding developments in the financial markets during the second week of 2022, as oil continued to reap gains …

Amid holiday-thinned trading conditions with US markets shut for MLK Day, oil prices have been broadly stable on the first trading session of the week, with front-month WTI futures subdued near $84.00 per barrel.Prices hit a fresh two-month high in the $84.70s early on during Asia Pacific trade, but profit-taking …

The FOMC’s first meeting of the year is likely be a quieter affair than its December meeting, when the Committee accelerated its taper plans and outlined a more aggressive policy path for 2022. According to Wells Fargo, “there will not be a fresh Summary of Economic Projections, and we expect …

The Bank of Japan will announce its policy decision on Tuesday, January 18. The central bank is unanimously expected to keep its policy settings at the conclusion of its two-day meeting and as it gets closer to the release time, here are the expectations forecast by the economists and researchers …

The Bank of Canada’s Business Outlook Survey (BoS) for Q4 revealed on Monday that the business sentiment in Canada improved again, with the BoS indicator coming in at a new record high of 5.99, up from 4.73 in the third quarter. The data for the latest survey was collected prior …

Sometimes, rumours take part in shaping the market’s overall mood even partially, though such rumours have no relation to reality. Something of this kind seems to have happened last week. The EUR/USD pair has been in a sideways trend since November, fluctuating in the range of 1.1220 – 1.1385.   …

US stocks ended mixed on Friday at the end of a volatile week, with investors and traders busy digesting a mixed set of bank earnings and a bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. retail sales. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at the highs of the trading day. The Nasdaq fluctuated between …

Retail sales dropped 1.9% in December, a big slowdown at the holiday season’s end; manufacturing output fell for first time since SeptemberIn a confirmation hearing for his second term as Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell said the central bank would use its tools to tamp down inflation. US retail spending …