Oil prices compensated for losses incurred earlier in the session and rose in Asian transactions on Friday, supported by the weakness of the dollar and the decline in US fuel stocks. At the same time, a row continues between Saudi Arabia and the United States over plans by the OPEC …
Read More »Japan shares rise to the highest level in 7 months
Japanese stocks rebounded on Friday, boosted by the strong performance of Fast Retailing as investors appeared to ignore US inflation data that fueled bets for a US Federal Reserve interest rate hike next month. The Nikkei average rose 3.25 percent to 27,090.76 points, its biggest daily percentage gain since March …
Read More »Gold is heading to record a weekly loss
Gold prices rose on Friday, supported by the decline in the dollar and US Treasury yields, but increased expectations of another big hike in US interest rates kept the precious metal on course for a weekly decline. And the price of gold in spot transactions rose 0.3 percent to $ …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session 13/10/2022
US inflation on Thursday was behind some wild, volatile moves. Fed is widely expected to decide a 75 bps rate hike in November and a peak policy rate of 4.85% in March 2023. The initial reaction to CPI data release the news was negative. Wall Street retreated, yields soared, and …
Read More »Gold prices depart daily lows after CPI data
Gold bounced up from $1,642 lows and returned to the $1,665 area. Gold is trading at $1,666 at the time of writing. Gold futures are retracing previous losses during Thursday’s US trading session, favoured by a broad-based USD pullback. The precious metal has bottomed at a two-week low of $1,642 …
Read More »White House looks for positive side of CPI data
The White House said there is indicator of progress in Thursday’s inflation reading though the Federal Reserve is expected to respond by aggressively by raising interest rates once again in November’s meeting.September’s CPI, measuring the changes in prices for a slate of consumer goods and services, showed that American consumers …
Read More »US stocks find surging momentum on US CPI
US stocks are strongly back into the green territory, putting on a short squeeze following the pre-market and opening selloff that ensued on the back of hot Consumer Price Index data. Stocks plunged to lows for the year but bulls moved in at a big discount, sending the Dow Jones …
Read More »EUR/USD climbs after hot inflation data
The EUR/USD dived to a daily low of 0.9631 as a reaction to US inflation, but the pair was able to recover later. CPI jumped more than estimated by 6.6% YoY, topping August 6.3%. Contrarily, headline inflation edged lower from the previous month’s 8.3% to 8.2%, almost 1% lower than …
Read More »US dollar still has chance to surge
The US dollar is maintaining the best performance across the board. Economists forecast that the next phase of US dollar’s resilience will be less linear than it has been in 2022.In the light of Thursday’s CPI reading, Fed has to keep going at 75 bps increases and the US dollar …
Read More »WTI pressured on risk aversion after CPI data
The West Texas Intermediate crude oil is under pressure during the US trading session following US hot inflation reading release that has caused risk aversion across financial markets.At the time of writing, WTI is down around 0.6% is recovering to the $88.28 high after managing to rise from earlier fresh …
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