Market Update

The Central Bank of Russia on Friday decided to raise its main interest rate by 0.25% to 4.5%, due to the recent rise in inflation above the central bank’s forecasts. The bank’s policy statement noted that “domestic demand is recovering more steadily and faster than expected, outstripping the pace of …

The U.S. Dollar (USD) is showing a mostly positive performance on Friday, supported by the rise in Treasury bond yields and the Federal Reserve’s decision to end the temporary change to the supplementary leverage ratio (SLR) for depository institutions by the end of the month as scheduled. “The temporary change …

The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones fell slightly at the opening trades on Friday, as financial stocks dropped after the US Federal Reserve’s decision to allow the exemption from some requirements related to bank debts to expire. The Dow Jones Index fell 3.9 points, or 0.01%, to 32,858.36. The …

Retail Sales in Canada declined by 1.1% in January to $54.5 billion, the data published by Statistics Canada revealed on Friday. This reading followed December’s decrease of 3.4% and came in better than analysts’ estimate for a fall of 3%.

Oil prices increased by more than a dollar during the European session, after a major sell-off witnessed in the previous session, as a new wave of Coronavirus cases across Europe triggered general isolation measures and dampened hopes for an imminent oil demand recovery. Brent crude rose $ 1.01, or 1.6%, …

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported on Thursday that the headline Manufacturing Activity Index of the Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey improved sharply to 51.8 in March from 23.1. This reading beat the market expectation of 23.1 by a wide margin.

A health official in Germany said today, Friday, that the number of Coronavirus cases is rising dramatically. Lars Shade, vice president of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, urged people not to travel during the Easter holidays to contain the increase in cases. Today’s data of the Robert Koch …

Today, the Russian Central Bank raised the main interest rate to 4.5% in light of inflationary risks and at the geopolitical level, and hinted that more will follow. The decision to raise interest rates, from a record low of 4.25 percent, contrasted with a Reuters poll that expected Russia to …

Gold is on the path of achieving its second consecutive weekly gain today, as it is supported by a slight decline in the dollar and US Treasury revenues. Spot gold rose 0.3% to $1740.99 an ounce. And the yellow metal is up more than 0.6 percent since the beginning of …

Official data revealed today that the British government borrowed 19.1 billion pounds last month, less than the expectation in a poll conducted by Reuters to borrow 21 billion pounds (29.2 billion dollars), bringing borrowing in the first 11 months of the financial year to nearly 279 billion pounds.