Forex Market

The USD/CAD moved back above 1.2700 on Thursday as oil prices came under accelerating selling pressure.BoC’s Gravelle spoke and largely stuck to the bank’s script after it held policy settings/guidance as expected on Wednesday.USD/CAD has been on the front foot on Thursday, gaining about 0.4% to move back to the …

Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle said on Thursday that concerns about upside inflation risks are heightened much more than usual. “We are likely to react a little bit more readily to the upside risk given it’s already above our inflation-control range”, Gravelle added.For reference, the bank’s inflation-control range …

Crude oil prices fall during Thursday’s session after rallying for six weeks, retreating by 2.82%. COVID-19 restrictions, and the spread of the Omicron variant, dented market mood as oil demand cut are among factors that are dragging prices lower.The factors together hit oil prices as lockdowns loom as a number …

The AUD/USD is now depending on o the US CPI to be released on Friday. Traders are eying the deviation between the US Fed and Reserve Bank of Australia. The AUD/USD pair is traded at 0.7150, lower by 0.25% during Thursday’s session and is set to settle between a range …

France’s Emmanuel Macron criticized the British government on Thursday, saying post-Brexit relationships with the UK are difficult because the UK does not do what it promises to do. “I hope Britain will re-commit to proper relations”, he said. French president’s comments come against the background of the negotiations with France …

Most Treasury yields turned lower on Thursday, as US stocks relinquished some ground following three straight days of gains.Meanwhile, bond investors are awaiting the US November consumer-price index report on Friday and a Federal Reserve policy meeting next week.Treasuries dated three years and out were seeing some modest buying on …

Gold prices received support from the dollar’s decline to rise Thursday, but the rise in US Treasury bond yields and anticipation of US inflation data and the Fed meeting limited the rise of the non-yielding metal. The price of gold in spot transactions rose 0.2% to $ 1785.78, while US …

US shares remarkably surged Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.31% to 4,701.21 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.10% to 35,754.75. Stocks surged led by overall positivity across the financial markets …

The dollar reaped some strength during London trading hours but finished the day down against most major currencies. The US dollar fell despite European and American indexes closed mostly in the red territory, and while government bond yields extended gains to fresh weekly highs.Some profit-taking and the opinion that the …

Olaf Scholz is now new German Chancellor. It is said that he feels extremely enthusiastic about the ideas he suggested years ago. Once, he described an agreement which he suggested saying that “it will really change the world”, so what other changes is Scholz capable for bringing about on the …