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Director of Research and Development at Noor Capital and member of the US Association of Professional Technical Analysts, Mohamed Hashad, was interviewed Monday morning by Dubai Channel to comment on the most outstanding developments in the financial markets during the second week of 2022, as oil continued to reap gains …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday that the coronavirus response is the government’s highest priority, as reported by Reuters. “Serious shortage of hospital beds needs to be avoided at all cost,” Kishida added and noted that they will bring forward COVID-19 vaccination booster shots for the elderly and …

US stocks ended mixed on Friday at the end of a volatile week, with investors and traders busy digesting a mixed set of bank earnings and a bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. retail sales. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at the highs of the trading day. The Nasdaq fluctuated between …

Friday’s session exhibited mixed performance. It has been a choppy day for US equity markets, with tech and growth stocks doing better while value did worse.Nasdaq 100 outperformed, gaining 0.5%, whilst the Dow underperformed, shedding 0.7%. It was a choppy and mixed session in US equity markets, marked more by …

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said on Friday that the latest Omicron wave will extend the time period that inflation will remain high. Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said on Friday that he expects the Omicron wave to temporarily prolong and intensify …

Industrial Production in the US dropped unexpectedly 0.1% in December. Analysts at Wells Fargo explain the decline took place despite indications that wait times are shortening and other signs of initial improvement with the supply chain problem.Key Quotes: “Total industrial production edged slightly lower in December with a 0.1% decline …

Japan’s Nikkei ended the session lower on Friday after Wall Street tumbled overnight as concerns about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic dented omicron’s effect on risk appetite. The Nikkei closed down 1.28 percent, recording 28,124.28 points, after dropping more than two percent to approach its lowest level in four …

Taiwan Semiconductor shares surged on Thursday, as the semiconductor manufacturer said fourth-quarter earnings topped Wall Street estimates and it would boost spending for 2022 well above last year’s levels.Taiwan Semiconductor shares closed at $139.19, gaining more than 5% and just off their 52-week high of $145. More than 51 million …

Outgoing Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida, who will resign from his position on Friday, two weeks before the end of his term, said on Thursday that commencing policy normalization in 2022 would be entirely consistent with the Fed’s new flexible average inflation targeting framework. The US economy is well above …

Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Thursday that three rate hikes in 2022 would be a good “opening bid”, though it could be four if inflation doesn’t improve fast enough.Evans added that he is reluctant to declare that the US has reached full employment, but that inflation is …