Market Update

Euro fell back under USD 1.18 in mid-September, hovering around its weakest level since 27 August due to growing risk aversion as rising COVID-19 infections could force some countries to resume certain restrictions. The European Central Bank decided last week to move to a moderately lower pace in its €1.85 …

The Toronto Stock Exchange S&P/TSX index declined 92 points, or 0.4% to 20,602 on Thursday.This low has been driven by a drop in commodity-linked stocks as gold futures fell to one-month lows and as China reiterated plans to release more metals from its reserves.WTI crude stabilised near a 6-week high …

The US dollar fitted a quick move of strength and spiked up to a fresh September high, Thursday, on the back of official report on strong retail sales. This helped the USD to push above a big zone of resistance.From a short-term basis, buyers are trying to hold the move …

Ahead of the official storage report, U.S. natural gas future contracts slipped on Thursday due to pressures by forecasts for estimated slightly lower demand next week. The market took a breather from its recent racing ahead of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly storage report.There has been a significant …

Wall Street fell after disappointing jobs data, ignoring improvement in retail sales, as investors weigh mixed signals in the latest U.S. economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 200 points and moved down 0.5%, coinciding with weekly jobless claims that rose and August’s retail sales unexpected jump. The S&P …

US stocks are trading mixed at the US session, and financial stocks post solid gains with higher US Treasury yields. Despite expectations of declining retail sales due to a rapidly spreading delta mutator, US retail sales unexpectedly rose in August by 0.7% to $618.7 billion. The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index …

The dollar moved near the middle of its trading range over the past month against major currencies on Thursday, September 16th, as traders look to the Federal Reserve meeting next week, in search of indications of when the US central bank will begin to taper. The dollar index, which measures …

Retail Sales in the US rose by 0.7% on a monthly basis in August, the data published by the US Census Bureau revealed on Thursday. This print surpassed the market expectation for a decrease of 0.8% by a wide margin.

China has completed vaccinating more than 70 percent of its 1.4 billion people against COVID-19 with full doses, data released by health authorities on Thursday showed. A total of 1.01 billion people in China had received full doses of vaccines as of September 15, Mi Feng, a spokesman for the …

EUR/USD is revisiting weekly lows at 1.1770 with selling bias around the Euro. No major support levels until 2021 lows of 1.1660. The euro currently trades at $1.1764. On the other hand, Deutsche Rohstof believes that the average price of the euro for 2022 will be $1.20, which is lower …