Forex Market

The Bank of Japan is expected to keep fiscal policy settings steady on Thursday and to contain inflation to stay below its 2% target for at least two more years.The BoJ is widely expected to leave its stimulus unchanged amid further delay in the economic recovery from the pandemic, only …

Investors eye how strong growth in Q3 gross domestic product will be when the government reports the official advance estimate on Thursday.Following the first two quarters when the annual rate of growth came in at 6.3% and 6.7%, respectively, the arrival of the delta variant this summer and ongoing disruptions …

USD/CAD fell for the first time in the week, down by 0.25%, trading at 1.2358 during the New York TRADING session. As the BoC decided to keep interest rates unchanged, investors’ expectation towards the QE was a reduction in its weekly purchases from CAD 2 billion to CAD 1 billion. …

Raising the debt limit has become more of a partisan battleground, resulting in perennial crises that threaten to undermine global faith in American markets and push the U.S. economy to the edge of recession.After raising the debt limit before default deadline, earlier this month, Congress still needs to tackle the …

The largest U.S. manufacturers including do encounter logistics headache and higher costs as a result of global supply bottlenecks that could continue into 2022, but most companies agree that the hit to profits can be compensated by charging higher prices for their goods.Companies globally pushed the alarm button reiterating that …

Gold prices try to hold on humble gains impacted by economic data showing steady momentum in the U.S. manufacturing sector.U.S. durable goods orders declined by 0.4% in September, following August’s increase of 1.3%. The data was better than expected; namely a decline of 1.1%.Excluding transportation, new orders rose by 0.4% …

Short term U.S. Treasury yields leapt higher Wednesday after the Bank of Canada shut down its QE program and signaled for an early 2022 interest rate hike only some days before November’s awaited Fed policy meeting.Treasury yields jumped higher Wednesday, pushing major stock indices into the red zone, after the …

The Bank of Canada took a new major step to pull back on the amount of stimulus it has been providing to support the domestic economy on Wednesday.The latest step constitutes ending net new purchases through its quantitative easing program and moving up its forecast for when it could decide …

German 10-year bond yield retreated to the lowest in more than a week, a development that caused yield curve to be flattened on Wednesday.After a brief break, the government yield curves across developed markets are back to flattening over the last couple of successive sessions.This low reflects concern that central …

Investors await fiscal policy announcement, Wednesday, for clues that Canada’s central bank is turning more hawkish. Led by Governor Tiff Macklem, the Bank of Canada is expected on Wednesday to raise its inflation forecast and to largely end stimulus related bond buying program, starting a countdown of sorts to the …