Market Update

Bitcoin’s rally weakened on Tuesday, suggesting that buyers took some profits at around the $68,500 all-time price high.The cryptocurrency is currently up by about 5% over the past week, compared with a 3% rise in ether over the same period.Despite a short-term retreat, upward price targets are expectedfor both BTC …

On Tuesday, Gold prices continued to trend higher after breaking since Friday. Despite the USD’s holding steady, the decline in U.S. treasury yields buoyed the precious metal. The solid U.S. PPI report released on Tuesday by the Labor Department showed that part of wholesale inflation is decelerating.Heavy buying trend of …

U.S. shares retreated back from record levels on Tuesday’s U. S. session, threatening to disrupt an eight-day gaining sessions for the S&P 500 Index, the first time since 1955. The benchmark index fell by 0.5% in afternoon trading. The S&P 500 pulled back to end an 8-session winning line of …

The biggest signal that Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard is a major candidate to succeed Jerome Powell as U. S. Fed Chair has generated a wave of speculations over how financial markets would react if Biden announced her as his nominee.The longest wait for the announcement in the modern era …

The Initial Jobless Claims for the week ending on November 6 will be revealed on Wednesday. New weekly jobless claims are expected to touch a fresh pandemic-era low again this week, as labour shortages and companies’ endeavors to bring about change and retain workers are helping to put a cap …

The start of the current week came with renewed fears of a Brexit showdown as the United Kingdom has threatened to trigger emergency unilateral provisions in the Brexit divorce deal widely known as Article 16.Article 16 is a clause in the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, a key part of the …

U. S. WTI sharply advances in the New York session, up by almost 2%, trading at $82.93 per barrel. Earlier, Tuesday, oil retreated under the $81.00 psychological figure, but later found support at the 1-hour 50-simple moving average at $80.99, which capped the downward pressure on the U. S. crude …

On Wednesday, the U. S. economic scene will witness the latest release of the Consumer Price Index, CPI, for October. This data is awaited by investors and traders, as the Federal Reserve dovish tone spurred a selloff in the bond market, while US Treasury yields fall.CPI is unlikely to offer …

The U. S. dollar was wavering between 93.90 and 94.10 in the New York session after data showed US producer prices increased solidly in October. While this was indicating that high inflation could persist for a while amid tight supply chain difficulties related to the pandemic, there were no great …

San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly was speaking at the National Association of Business Economists virtual meeting.Daly said it is too early to know how far the US economy is from full employment, adding that there won’t be better clarity until the middle of next year.“It’s going to take time …