Market Update

Gold prices fell on Friday before the announcement of important US jobs data. However, they are still on track to record the best weekly performance in three weeks, with the dollar weakening due to expectations of a slowdown in the rate hike at the Federal Reserve and indications of declining …

Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Friday after the dollar recovered some of its losses, while the easing of anti-COVID-19 restrictions in two Chinese cities limited losses. By 0128 GMT, Brent crude futures fell 11 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $86.77 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude …

The US Dollar kept extending its decline to multi-month lows against most of its major rivals amid persistent optimism and weak US data, in addition to the general mood triggered by Fed’s signls concerning tightening the US monetary policy at a slower pace.On Friday, the US will publish the Nonfarm …

The performance of US shares is mixed on Thursday as a selloff in Salesforce impacted the Dow Jones, while traders are busy; digesting a fresh batch of US economic data which generally indicate that the Fed’s interest rate hikes are working towards their aspired target.On Wednesday, US manufacturing activity shrank …

On Friday, all eyes will be on the US non-farm payrolls reading during the first week of a new month. The all-important data will be attentively watched by all market players to see whether the aggressive rate-rising policy of the US central bank is knocking the labour market which has …

The USD/CAD pair stopped its slump following US data that signaled further retreating economic activity in United States.The weaker-than-expected US ISM Manufacturing PMI triggered a fresh wave of Risk aversion in addition to comments by Fed’s Bowman who said there’s work to do by the US central bank.The USD/CAD pair …

Estonia is holding a hawkish stance insisting that capping the prices of oil to a level could have no impact on Russia’s war.Estonia is pressured by other EU member states in order not to go forward with the nation’s threat to veto a US-proposed cap on the price of Russian …

The ISM Manufacturing PMI dropped into contraction territory below 50 in November according to the latest data released on Thursday.US Dollar Index continues to push lower, losing more than 1% on the day. The Dollar seems under constant selling pressure following this report and the US Dollar Index was last …

Fed Governor Michelle Bowman said on Thursday that the headline and core inflation slightly slowed down but the latest readings are still unsatisfactorily high. Bowman also expects ongoing increases in rate hikes at coming meetings. According to her, policymakers still have a lot of work to do but it is …

Inflation in the US, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, declined to 6% on a yearly basis in October from 6.3% in September, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on Thursday. This reading came in below the market expectation of 6.2%. The annual Core PCE …