Market Update

GBP/USD has hesitantly bounced from annual lows at 1.3300 ahead of a short market closure for Thanksgiving as markets eye Brexit developments, with French fishermen blockades now expected Friday.While the pair has been under heavy selling pressure recently, it isn’t yet in oversold territory. Ahead of a five-hour market closure …

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday that the supply chain problems causing inflation should be temporary.“The risk is that inflation expectations become embedded and we have a very tight labour market in the UK. Policy guidance is more hazardous to give in times of elevated uncertainty”, he …

The November US employment report will be released on the first Friday of December. At the moment, analysts at Wells Fargo expect an increase in jobs of around 600.000. Total nonfarm payrolls increased by 531K during October, a gain that was well ahead of expectations. The net revisions to the …

Vice president of Bundesbank, Claudia Buch, said that almost 90% of German households expect property prices to keep increasing.Buch added that her team at the Bundesbank has come up with estimates of about 10% to 30% for price deviations from their fundamentals. Germany’s central bank warned Thursday about skewed valuations …

The US Federal Reserve will likely double the pace of tapering its monthly bond purchases from January to $30 billion, and wind down its pandemic-era bond buying scheme by mid-March, Goldman Sachs strategists said in a daily note on Thursday.The increased openness to accelerating the taper pace likely reflects both …

The European Central Bank is under growing pressure from bankers to lend more of its stash of German government bonds to avert a market squeeze that would undo some of its own stimulus efforts.As the safest debt in the region, Germany’s sovereign bonds are the lifeblood of European financial markets …

Oil prices varied during trading today, Thursday, in the Asian trading session, as investors awaited the reaction of “OPEC” to the release of crude oil from emergency reserves by major consuming countries to calm the market. Brent crude futures rose 0.07% to $82.31 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude …

European shares rose on Thursday, as a rebound in hard-hit technology shares and a rise in French liquor maker Rémy Cointreau allayed concerns about a surge in coronavirus infections across the continent. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index rose 0.4 percent by 0809 GMT, recovering from a three-week low hit on …

There were no fresh moves for the majors during the Asian session. Fresh headlines are crossing the wires from the UAE official, via Reuters, citing that it is fully committed to OPEC and its allies (OPEC+) agreement. Gold futures rose 0.47% to $1,792.75, after falling to their lowest level since …

Fresh headlines are crossing the wires from the UAE official, via Reuters, citing that it is fully committed to OPEC and its allies (OPEC+) agreement. The UAE said that it has no “prior stance” ahead of the upcoming OPEC+ meeting. The UAE Energy Minister, Suhail Al Mazrouei, said last Tuesday …