Market Update

US stocks tended to fight for direction on Tuesday, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished higher. The index gained 104.40 points, or 0.31%, to close at 33,733.96. The S&P 500 dipped 0.07% to settle at 4,016.95, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.27% to end at 11,334.27.The Dow Jones Industrial …

Microsoft announced its Q2 earnings after the bell on Tuesday, beating on expected earnings per share. Despite the beat on earnings per share, Microsoft’s cloud business continued to slow in the quarter. The company reported its Intelligent Cloud segment grew 18% in the quarter, while its Azure services grew 31%. …

Gold price is running into a critical resistance area on all charts. Gold selloff could eventually lead to significant fears lest it should run towards $1,900. Gold price is advancing on the day into the final push on Wall Street and rallied from a low of $1,917.22 to a high …

Bitcoin rallied more than 37% in the first month of the new year. The famous cryptocurrency is expected to have January as its best monthly return since October 2021.Analysts pointed to the weaker US dollar, inflation expectations, and institutional buying support catalyzing this rally. The fading impact from squeezed short …

The USD/CAD pair is eagerly awaiting BoC’s rate decision this week and the build-up momentum ahead of the Fed’s policy meeting next week. The USD/CAD is flat on the day following stock market volatility. The USD/CAD is flat on the day after journeying between the 1.3346 low and the 1.3413 …

Tuesday’s latest purchasing managers’ index data from the Eurozone in January and the first signs of the corporate earnings season are being digested by investors as European markets ended lower on Tuesday.The pan-European Stoxx 600 index decreased by 0.2%, with losses led by the oil and gas and health care …

European Central Bank’s policymaker Gediminas Simkus said on Tuesday that the ECB should continue with 50 basis points (bps) rate hikes amid growing wage pressures, as reported by Bloomberg.Simkus further added that reaching the peak policy rate before summer ‘may be unlikely’ and noted that strong core inflation shows that …

The AUD/USD pair broke decisively above 0.7000 yesterday. Australia’s Consumer Price Index data for Q4 could fuel the rally if figures come out sticky according to economists. The AUD/USD is trading at 0.7049 at the time of writing versus the previous closing at 0.7024. Tuesday’s fourth-quarter CPI data in Australia …

Crude oil prices stabilized on Tuesday amid concerns about the global economic slowdown and the expected increase in US oil inventories, which was offset by hopes for a recovery in fuel demand from China, the world’s largest oil importer. Brent crude fell 30 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $87.89 a …

The U.S. hit the debt ceiling The U.S. Debt Ceiling is an essential fiscal tool that has been around for a while; however, it has recently become a source of much debate and discussion.  The debt ceiling is the legal limit to which the U.S. government can borrow money from …