In a speech delivered on Tuesday, incoming British Prime Minister Liz Truss said that she will cut taxes to reward hard work, as reported by Reuters.As for the market’s reaction, the GBP/USD pair showed no immediate reaction to these remarks and was last seen rising 0.25% on the day at …
Read More »ISM Services PMI Reading Surges In August
Economic activity in the services sector surged in August for the twenty seventh month in a row, with the Services PMI registering 56.9 percent according to the US purchasing and supply executives in the latest “Services ISM Report On Business”.The report was issued on Tuesday by Anthony Nieves, Chair of …
Read More »European shares rise in morning trading
European shares rose on Tuesday, after a difficult start to the week as concerns about a looming energy crisis and recession weighed on risk appetite. The Stoxx 600 index rose 0.5%, moments after the start of trading, and is heading to recover from a loss of 0.6% in the previous …
Read More »The rise of gold with the decline of the dollar and the increase in demand for safe havens
Gold prices rose on Tuesday, as the pause in the dollar’s rally and the energy crisis in Europe prompted some investors to buy the safe-haven metal. And gold rose in spot transactions 0.5% to $ 1718.30 an ounce, by 0648 GMT. Prices rose earlier by about one percent to their …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – September 5
The US dollar started the week with positive performance against most major rival currencies, although a Federal holiday in the US maintained volumes at their lows and major pairs within limited intraday ranges.On Monday, Moscow decided to cut energy to Europe until Western sanctions are lifted. Germany announced it will …
Read More »US Dollar Index Surges On Labour Day
The US dollar has continued to surge since the beginning of the weekly trading coinciding with the Labor Day holiday in the United States.The US dollar is soaring on end of last week’s employment data that came in overall agreement with the path expected by the Fed with regard to …
Read More »Gold slides from daily highs, but hovers around $1710 level
Gold price hardly slides 0.13%, weighed by higher US Treasury bond yields and the strength of the US dollar.Gold price losses some of its brightness at the beginning of the week, down by 0.49%, in a thin liquidity trading day, with US markets, closed in the observance of Labour day. …
Read More »Bank of Canada to deliver a 75 bps hike on Wednesday
The Bank of Canada is expected to issue its latest monetary policy decision on Wednesday. A rate hike of 75 basis points is widely expected. Analysts believe that central bank will slow down the pace of its rate hikes after this September’s meeting, only taking the policy rate to 3.75% …
Read More »BoE’s Mann comments on gradual rate hikes
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 …
Read More »Macron: France supports common gas purchase at EU level
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 …
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