Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday that the coronavirus response is the government’s highest priority, as reported by Reuters. “Serious shortage of hospital beds needs to be avoided at all cost,” Kishida added and noted that they will bring forward COVID-19 vaccination booster shots for the elderly and …
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Oil Prices Retreat as Chinese Crude Demand Weakens
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CPI INFERNO: May 2026 Data Poised to Ignite Fed Policy Shifts, Market Turbulence, Volatility and Renewed Inflation Fears
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Euro Bounces Back: Easing Global Tensions and Looming Inflation Data Shift Currency Markets
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Gold Under Pressure: Why High Interest Rates Are Keeping the Precious Metal Grounded
Gold is finding itself in a difficult position. Despite a weaker US Dollar, the precious metal is st…
Dollar Eases From 2-Month High as Ceasefire Holds and CPI Looms: Indonesia Shocks With Emergency Rate Hike
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Bitcoin Slides 2.5% as ETF Outflows Continue: Strategy’s $101M Buyback Signals Confidence Despite Debt Pressures
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Gold Steadies Near 11-Week Low as Iran-Israel Pause Eases Pressure: CPI Data Could Be the Turning Point
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European Stocks Drift as Israel-Iran Pause Eases Nerves: ECB Rate Hike Looms Thursday as Inflation Battle Rages
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Market Analysis
January, 2022
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17 January 2022 1:29 am
Weekly Recap 10-14 January
Sometimes, rumours take part in shaping the market’s overall mood even partially, though such rumours have no relation to reality. Something of this kind seems to have happened last week. The EUR/USD pair has been in a sideways trend since November, fluctuating in the range of 1.1220 – 1.1385. …
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15 January 2022 3:06 am
Market Drivers – US Session – 14 January
US stocks ended mixed on Friday at the end of a volatile week, with investors and traders busy digesting a mixed set of bank earnings and a bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. retail sales. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at the highs of the trading day. The Nasdaq fluctuated between …
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15 January 2022 1:27 am
US Retail Spending, Manufacturing Collectively Drop As Omicron, Inflation Surge
Retail sales dropped 1.9% in December, a big slowdown at the holiday season’s end; manufacturing output fell for first time since SeptemberIn a confirmation hearing for his second term as Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell said the central bank would use its tools to tamp down inflation. US retail spending …
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15 January 2022 12:47 am
US Shares Exhibits Choppy Performance As Tech Outperforms Value
Friday’s session exhibited mixed performance. It has been a choppy day for US equity markets, with tech and growth stocks doing better while value did worse.Nasdaq 100 outperformed, gaining 0.5%, whilst the Dow underperformed, shedding 0.7%. It was a choppy and mixed session in US equity markets, marked more by …
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14 January 2022 11:58 pm
Gold Reacts To Higher US Bond Yields
Gold retreats for the second straight day as worse than expected US economic data dominated news headlines; US retail sales dropped the most in 10-months and the US 10-year T-bond yield hits 1.771%, weighing on the non-yielding metal.The precious metal slips for the second-consecutive day amid dismal US economic data …
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14 January 2022 11:07 pm
Baker Hughes Reports Most Oil, Gas rigs Since April
US energy drillers this week added the most oil and natural gas rigs in a week since April as rising oil prices prompt more drillers to return to the well-pads.The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose 13 to 601 in the week to Jan. …
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14 January 2022 10:39 pm
US Consumer Sentiment Drops in January 2022
Consumer Sentiment has recorded the second-lowest reading in a decade. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index has recorded a dip of 2.5% in early January 2022 from its level in December 2021, according to preliminary results released Friday.The MCSI now stands at its second-lowest level in a decade, the …
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14 January 2022 10:08 pm
WTI Driven By Geopolitical Tension To Test Fresh Highs
WTI crude oil is trading now at $81.73 per barrel after latest high recorded Friday at $83.14 per barrel. The benchmark American oil is probing its best levels since early November in the $73.00 as geopolitical tensions rise. Analysts as well as banks have been calling this week for WTI …
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14 January 2022 9:11 pm
Fed’s Speakers Focus on Omicron, Hot Inflation, Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said on Friday that the latest Omicron wave will extend the time period that inflation will remain high. Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said on Friday that he expects the Omicron wave to temporarily prolong and intensify …
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14 January 2022 8:48 pm
Wells Fargo: US Industrial Production Still a Supply Problem
Industrial Production in the US dropped unexpectedly 0.1% in December. Analysts at Wells Fargo explain the decline took place despite indications that wait times are shortening and other signs of initial improvement with the supply chain problem.Key Quotes: “Total industrial production edged slightly lower in December with a 0.1% decline …
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14 January 2022 5:51 pm
US Retail Sales Slide by 1.9% in December
US Retail Sales fell by 1.9% MoM in December, according to data published by the US Census Bureau revealed on Friday. That was well below market expectations for a MoM decline of -0.1% and marked a sharp deceleration from November’s growth rate of 0.2% (downwardly revised from 0.3%). That meant …
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14 January 2022 5:22 pm
China Posts Record Trade Surplus in Dec And 2021
In December, Chinese exports rose more than analysts’ expectations, while imports rose less than expected. On Friday, the Chinese Customs Administration revealed, in a statement carried by CNBC, that exports rose by 20.9 percent year on year last month to $340.49 billion, against expectations of a 20 percent increase, compared …
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