Market Update

The USD/CAD trims Monday’s losses and stages a comeback, soaring in the North American session above the 1.2600 mark, approaching the 50-day moving average (DMA) at 1.2651. The USD/CAD is trading at 1.2625.Market sentiment and hawkish Fed lifted the USD/CAD above 1.2600. The market sentiment remains mixed. European equities are …

Statistics Canada will release March Consumer Price Index (CPI) data on Wednesday, April 20 at 12:30 and as we get closer to the release time, here are the forecasts by the economists and researchers of five major banks regarding the upcoming Canadian inflation data. The March Canada inflation rate is …

Gold extended the previous day’s retracement slide from the vicinity of the $2,000 psychological mark and witnessed some selling on Tuesday. The intraday downfall picked up pace during the early North American session and dragged spot prices to a four-day low, around the $1,957 region in the last hour. The …

Housing Starts rose by 0.3% in March, taking the rolling 12-month number of starts to 1.793M, above expectations for a drop to 1.745M from 1.788M in February, data released by the US Census Bureau on Tuesday showed. Meanwhile, Building Permits rose by 0.4%, taking the rolling 12-month number of permits …

On Tuesday, the dollar rose to a 20-year high against the Japanese yen, and touched a two-year peak against the euro, boosted by rising US Treasury yields. The dollar index, which measures the performance of the US currency against six other currencies, rose to exceed 101 for the first time …

European shares are set to record their worst daily performance in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, as investors jittery over the war in Ukraine, expectations of a US Federal Reserve monetary policy tightening and mixed business results. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index fell 1 percent, after falling 0.9 percent last …

A report from the OPEC + group seen by Reuters showed that the production of the alliance of oil producers was less than production targets in March by 1.45 million barrels per day, with the beginning of a decline in Russia’s production after the sanctions imposed by the West. The …

Gold prices fell on Tuesday as the dollar rose on expectations that prices may in the near term retest the resilience of the yellow metal at the key level of $2000 an ounce. Spot gold fell 0.2 percent to 1975.36 dollars an ounce, and US gold futures fell 0.4 percent …

Japan’s Nikkei rose on Tuesday, but was unable to close above the psychologically important 27,000 point level, as concerns over the upcoming earnings season, a weaker yen and the outlook for US monetary policy limited its gains. The Nikkei closed up 0.69 percent to 26,985.09 points, after it swung in …

Major European markets were closed on Monday with generally quite subdued trading conditions for most of the day. Flows were picking up somewhat during US trade. Nonetheless, the US dollar traded firmly across the board against its major G10 counterparts and the Dollar Index (DXY) hit its highest level since …