Market Update

Japan’s Nikkei recorded its worst week in nearly three months on Friday, while ending the day flat, and was pressured by fears of aggressive rate hikes globally, while a weak yen provided little support. The Nikkei closed down 0.04 percent to 27,650.84 points, and recorded a weekly decline of 3.4 …

September brought some additional recession-related concerns to almost all financial markets, however; the American dollar surged, helped by positive US data and the negative market sentiment.The EUR/USD pair trades around 0.9950, while GBP/USD plunged to 1.1497, now trading around 1.1540. Commodity-linked currencies finished the day mixed, as AUD/USD is down …

Proposals Iran sent a constructive response to US proposals concerning efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear pact with global powers according to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani.“The text that was sent by Iran has a constructive approach aimed at finalizing the negotiations”, Kanaani said on early Friday.Iran’s response was …

At the time of writing, gold trades around $1695.60. in order to defend its stance, Gold attempted to build a fort near $1,690 on Thursday after a steep retreating move. Gold seeks a chance to rebound; such a pullback could push gold above the psychological resistance of $1,700.00.The downtrend will …

This Friday’s NFP report for August comes one week after remarks by Fed’s Jerome Powell, in his speech before Jackson Hole symposium, opening the door for important questions, including but not limited to: how much the jobs data will convince Fed’s policymakers of a certain QT course.NFP data has usually …

Bitcoin fell below $20,000 for a sixth successive trading session, the longest streak under the same closely-watch level since the crypto market was quacked by crisis in July. The largest cryptocurrency by market value declined as much as 3.1% to $19,577 on Thursday. Most other digital coins were also lower, …

Crude oil is facing fresh lows on the day as commodities are served a new blow by news on China’s covid levels and probable lockdown risks.Global growth concerns and the Iran deal talks are affecting oil’s price action. prices are continuing downside on Thursday as a combination of the lockdowns …

Eurozone bond yields sharply surged on Thursday and the Italian 10-year yield breached 4% for the first time since June, but this happened only briefly. Traders continue betting on a jumbo interest rate hike in next week’s ECB monetary policy meeting.Eurozone money markets on Thursday were discussing the 85% chance …

US equities fell on Thursday as traders continued to debate over the possibility for higher rate policy by the Fed.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 150 points, or 0.5%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite declined 1.1% and 2.2%, respectively. All of the major averages are on track to finish …

Markets are becoming harder and harder to predict in 2022. One of the biggest questions, right now, is whether a reliable common measure of volatility can work and show risk direction.Traders lack a reliable measure of the risk level when they have to make investment decisions. Instead, they derive direction …