Market Update

The dollar rose slightly on Monday, with US Treasury yields rising from their lowest in two and a half months hit last week, after news that initial observations showed that people with the new mutant of the Coronavirus Omicron had only mild symptoms. News from South Africa’s Omicron helped turn …

The week got off to a quiet start in Asia. This morning, the People’s Bank of China set the yuan’s exchange rate against the US dollar at 6.3702 yuan per dollar. Japan’s Nikkei closed lower on Monday, dragged down by a sharp drop in SoftBank Group shares, but optimism about …

Bitcoin hovered near $49,000 on Monday, down 1.5% on the day, as traders took losses after a grueling weekend when the world’s most popular cryptocurrency at one point lost more than 20% of its value. This trajectory brought the price of Bitcoin and the amount invested in its futures contracts …

The Turkish lira fell 0.7% against the US dollar to return to its lowest levels, affected by continuing concerns about the monetary easing policies of the Central Bank, despite the increase in the inflation rate by more than 21%. The Turkish lira recorded 13.85 to the dollar by 06:17 GMT, …

America and Germany decided to adopt stricter restrictions to circumvent COVID-19 on Thursday, away Austria, there are tailored or modified lockdowns elsewhere all over the globe to combat the emergence of the new Omicron strain. Such measures provoked turmoil across financial markets, lest it could ignite severe global economic slowdown …

A sudden bitcoin and crypto selloff has followed a warning made by famed investor Louis Navellier that widely-expected Federal Reserve taper will potentially burst the bitcoin and crypto bubble.Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply, wiping around $300 billion worth of value from the combined crypto market in just two …

A significant event on Monday will be the speech by the Bank of England’s Ben Broadbent, this will be Broadbent last public appearance prior to the anticipated rate decision in the following week.Investors believe it is reasonable to expect rate hikes from 0.10% to 0.25% on December 16, but uncertainty …

Chinese tech stocks popular among US investors have fallen amid the country’s regulatory crackdown on technology firms.Wall Street Journal has explained some of the new risks investors face when buying shares of companies like Didi or Tencent. Investors punished shares of Chinese companies traded in the US on Friday.Didi Global …

The selloff gained force Friday, leaving the NYSE FANG+ Index of Tech Industry’s giants bordering on correction territory, or a 10% drop from the highest. That’s not seen as a good sign heading into the end of the year, the most illiquid trading season. Shares of Tesla, Netflix, Nvidia and …

US President Joe Biden said on Friday that price pressures would ease as the global economy improves.“Gasoline price drops are beginning to reach Americans and this should pick up, he added, saying that China might also decide to release more oil, though it has not done so just yet.Managing Director …