Forex Market

As markets, investors and traders expected, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK will move to COVID-19 “plan B”.Guidance to work from home has been reintroduced, face mask requirements will now be expanded to most public venues and the NHS will make the NHS COVID Pass mandatory for …

Gold tested its 200DMA above USD 1790 earlier on Wednesday’s session but has since slipped back to the mid-USD 1780.Gold is currently in a wait to see mode ahead of Friday’s key US inflation numbers. The gold Index is trading flat in the New York session near USD 1,784 and …

Fed is often in the headlines whenever talk is about interest rates. Lenders know that its primary goal is to promote a strong US economy using monetary policy, with maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates as goals.When prices are stable, long-term rates remain at moderate levels, so …

US Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown expects to wait until January to hold hearings on President Joe Biden’s nominees to the top two Federal Reserve positions.Biden last month nominated Fed Chair Jerome Powell to a second four-year term as head of the US central bank and picked Fed Governor …

Turkish President Recep Erdogan said on Wednesday that volatility in markets will stop eventually. Erdogan said that the price hikes stemming from rising energy costs would soon stabilize and asked Turks to be patient and trust the government over the new economic model. The current price hikes in Turkey, he …

Canada’s central bank raises concerns about the potential impacts of recent flooding and the Omicron variant. The Bank of Canada kept its benchmark overnight interest rate on hold and its forward guidance unchanged, even as it warned that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 had introduced more uncertainty into the country’s …

The Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP), Poland’s central bank, raised its benchmark interest rate by 50bps as expected to 1.75% on Wednesday. The central bank also raised each of its other interest rates by 50bps; the discount rate on bills of exchange was lifted to 1.85% from 1.35%, the Lombard rate …

Gold prices rose to their highest in a week on Wednesday as the dollar and US bond yields fell and the precious metal received a boost as a safe haven due to tensions related to Ukraine with US consumer price data due later this week. The price of gold in …

President Joe Biden told Russian Counterpart Vladimir Putin that the United States is prepared to launch strong economic measures in case Russia decides to invade Ukraine. The Bank of Canada is expected to keep the major part of focused spotlight on inflation at its policy decision, as the country’s central …

Although gold markets firstly fell during trading on Tuesday, the precious metal found enough buyers underneath to push it up. Spot gold was up 0.2% to $1,782.39 per ounce by 01:40 p.m. ET (1840 GMT). U.S. gold futures settled up 0.3% at 1,784.70. Gold is trying to stay in the …