Market Update

The 10-year Treasury yield have touched 1.45% on Friday to hit its highest level since July as investors continued to react to the Federal Reserve’s policy two days ago. Bond investors were particularly interested in the signal by the central bank that the tapering of $120 billion of monthly bond …

Kansas City Fed President Esther George said that the U.S. job market has already met the Federal Reserve’s benchmark test sufficiently to decrease its monthly bond purchasesزGeorge mentioned that the central bank should now turn to discussion of how its massive bondholdings may add complication to its eventual decision about …

The U. S. dollar was on track for its biggest daily percentage gain against a basket of major currencies in a week during Friday’s sessions.Uncertainty over stressed Chinese Evergrande Group helped the USD bounce back from a sharp decline in the prior session. Evergrande owes $305 billion but has run …

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Experts at Citibank said Friday that the Chinese real estate market is expected to witness a strong downturn, regardless of what happens in the crisis of Evergrande, one of the largest real estate developers in China. Experts at Citibank added that the real estate sector will face downward pressure, despite …

Gold compensated some of its losses after declining 1% in the previous session, supported by the weakness of the dollar and the return of concerns about the fate of the Chinese company Evergrande to the fore, which strengthened the position of the yellow metal as a safe haven. And gold …

European shares fell at the open, as concerns persisted over troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande, and China-exposed mining and retail stocks were among the biggest losers. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index fell 0.5%, after three days of gains. Mining, auto and retail stocks fell more than 1 percent. Investors …

The Turkish lira approached an all-time low on Friday as foreign investors flocked out, but bargain hunting in the local market limited losses, a day after the central bank’s unexpected decision to cut interest rates while providing a little indication of how far it could fall. The lira, which has …

Japan’s shares jumped, in the last sessions of the week, supported by shares related to the economic cycle, due to hopes of achieving economic recovery, while investors expressed optimism that the repercussions of the debt crisis of China’s Evergrande Group would not affect the rest of the markets. The Nikkei …

Oil prices continued to rise for the fourth consecutive day due to global supply concerns following two hurricanes in the United States, but the first sale of government crude reserves in China temporarily limited this rise. Brent crude rose 12 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $ 77.37 a barrel, after …