Economic Report

While Russia continues to cut off supply to Europe while historic heatwaves are causing a spike in demand for gas to cool homes, France is beginning to detect a looming energy crisis. A cold winter will take off after this summer, if fuel prices continue to rise, the crisis will …

Wall Street is ticking higher Monday to kick off a week full of updates on the two things that set stock prices: how much profit companies are making and where interest rates are heading. The S&P 500 was 0.5% higher in afternoon trading, on pace for another gain after it …

The euro rose to a one-week high on Monday, benefiting from the dollar’s decline after many Federal Reserve officials indicated that they were not in favour of an increased rate of an interest rate hike. These comments, made late last week, pulled the dollar back from its two-decade high and …

The US dollar surged to two-decade highs between Wednesday and Thursday after panic across markets that the Fed might decide a record 100-basis point rate hike next to suppress fresh four-decade highs in consumer prices which constitute a threat later downplayed by the US monetary policymakers.On Friday, the US Census …

The US dollar settled at a two-decade high on Friday after global markets swept into a wave of risk-off, with traders expecting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 100 basis points later this month. Currencies seen as more vulnerable, including the Australian dollar and the British pound, have …

Gold prices fell on Friday, July 15, and remained on track for the fifth consecutive weekly decline, as the continued rise in the dollar and fears of a sharp rise in US interest rates affected the demand for bullion. And the price of gold in spot transactions fell 0.3% to …

Producer price pressures are still too strong to delay any Fed’s future rate hikes. The US dollar could continue to receive support from the recession-linked fears in and outside the United States. Gold has been pressured on Thursday due to a rising US dollar and hawkish sentiment surrounding the Fed …

Political as well as other crises across Europe add further pressure on the shared currency. The EUR/USD pair plunged to 0.9951, a fresh multi-year low, now recovering above parity. Speculative interest turned into safety amid persistent fears of recession, triggering stock market selloffs.Fears temporarily cooled during the US session as …

The dollar continued to rise on Thursday, reaching levels not reached in 24 years against the yen and close to parity with the euro, amid speculation by traders that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to combat inflation. Global economic turmoil pushed the dollar’s price to rise sharply as …

The yield on the benchmark 10-year note slid by 0.05 percentage points to 2.91 per cent. The two-year yield has been higher than the 10-year yield since last week. This occurrence is widely known in the market as “an inverted yield curve” and constitutes a closely watched signal of recession …