Market Update

US shoppers buy less than they normally used to. This is because prices have risen by double-digit percentages. Walmart warned that big-ticket items are still unsold. Walmart headed to news headlines for a couple of reasons.Firstly; Walmart warned investors that its profits are expected retreat because rising prices are forcing …

Conference Board’s consumer confidence indicators dropped in July for the third consecutive month. According to analysts at Wells Fargo, point out high inflation, rising interest rates and volatile financial markets weighed on consumer confidence. Key Quotes: “Most data in the July confidence report moved in the wrong direction. While lower …

Sellers returned to the Euro and dragged EUR/USD to multi-session lows in the vicinity of 1.0100 on Tuesday. The EUR/USD rapidly abandoned the area around 1.0250 to retreated nearly 15 cents after EU countries decided to reduce the gas consumption in the next winter, all following the decision by Russian …

Russia and Ukraine signed two separate agreements in Istanbul to resume exports of wheat and other grain from Ukrainian ports. The said agreements were still doubtful just one day after they were signed because of a Russian missile attack on the port of Odessa.Wheat price on fell by almost 6% …

Home purchases, in the United States, dropped 8.1% in June to an annualized 590,000 rate. The number of homes sold awaiting start is at the highest level since January 2022.Sales of new US homes fell for the fifth time this year in June to a more than two-year low. There …

McDonald’s reported on Tuesday second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ forecasts and revenue that fell short of expectations. McDonald’s announced earnings per share of $2.55 on revenue of $5.72B. McDonald’s shares are up 5% from the beginning of the year, still down 7.66% from its 52-week high of $271.15 set on …

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the gas turbine in Russia’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline had not yet arrived from Canada, where it is undergoing maintenance. Still, Moscow hopes it will be installed “sooner rather than later”. The European Union has repeatedly accused Russia of resorting to energy …

Despite the markets absorbing the US interest rate hike this week, increasing uncertainty about its future path kept the dollar price below its recently reached 20-year high on Tuesday. In contrast, the recent Russian gas supply cuts kept the euro under great pressure. Later on Tuesday, the Federal Reserve begins …

Gold prices rose somewhat on Tuesday and swung within a narrow range during the day as the dollar weakened, while investors avoided big bets ahead of an expected hike in US interest rates. And the gold price rose 0.5 percent in spot transactions to $1,726.83 an ounce by 0725 GMT. …

The US dollar fell against a basket of major currencies on Monday as investors weighed the effects of an increase in interest rates from the Federal Reserve on an economy that may be on the brink of recession. The US central bank is expected to raise interest rates by 75 …