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August, 2021

• 19 August 2021 5:03 am

  Wall Street Extends Losses Following Fed’s Minutes

  

  The benchmark indices in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) finished lower for the second consecutive session on Wednesday, with Wall Street responding to the Federal Reserve’s July meeting minutes that showed a path to cut back the massive asset purchases before the end of 2021 or in January. The …

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• 19 August 2021 3:24 am

  Oil Drops to Lowest Closing Level in Three Months

  

  Oil prices declined on Wednesday, finishing at the lowest closing level since May, amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus Delta variant and an expected negative impact on the recovery of energy demand. Earlier today, data showed a large drop in U.S. crude inventories to their lowest level since …

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• 19 August 2021 1:10 am

  Gold Finishes Lower but Bounces Following Fed Minutes

  

  Gold prices closed lower on Wednesday, as the U.S. Dollar (USD) continued its rally against major peers, but rebounded following the release of the Federal Reserve July meeting minutes Talks about plans for monetary policy normalization soon, beginning with limiting the asset purchases before increasing interest rate, are providing support …

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• 19 August 2021 12:06 am

  Fed Growing Worried of Stablecoins Risks and Fragility

  

  The U.S. Federal Reserve is seemingly concerned about the risks of stablecoins, with potential threats to financial stability. Minutes of the Fed’s July meeting, released earlier today, showed that members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) believe that significant structural vulnerabilities remained at entities such as prime money funds. …

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• 18 August 2021 11:56 pm

  Fed Months Away from Tapering Decision: Minutes

  

  Board members of the United States Federal Reserve are moving closer to a decision on tapering the massive asset purchases, currently at $120 billion a month, which were introduced to support economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) July meeting minutes showed that most members …

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• 18 August 2021 10:25 pm

  FOMC Minutes Confirm Taper Talks and Uncertainty

  

  The minutes of the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting showed that some members of the United States Federal Reserve Board indicated that the committee should begin limiting asset purchases this year. However, 60% of respondents anticipated the first reduction in the pace of net asset purchases to come …

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• 18 August 2021 8:28 pm

  U.S. Oil Inventories at Lowest Since January 2020

  

  Crude oil inventories in the United States declined last week to their lowest level since January 2020. Inventories dropped by 3.2 million barrels in the week ending August 13, reaching 435.5 million barrels, according to official figures released on Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The decline in …

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• 18 August 2021 6:42 pm

  FOMC: Markets Are Afraid of The “Black Swan” Scenario

  

  At the FOMC meeting on July 28, the question about monetary policy was posed very straightforwardly; Is the US economy, especially the labor market, improving fast enough to begin discussing QE tapering? Looking at the Fed members’ statements since the last meeting of FOMC, we see that it tends to …

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• 18 August 2021 5:35 pm

  US: Housing Starts Decline by 7% in July

  

  Housing Starts in the US declined by 7% on a monthly basis in July after increasing by 3.5% in June, the data published jointly by the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development showed on Wednesday.

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• 18 August 2021 5:10 pm

  Canada: Annual CPI Rises to 3.7% in July

  

  Annual inflation in Canada, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), advanced to 3.7% in July from 3.1% in June, the data published by Statistics Canada revealed on Wednesday. This reading came in higher than the market expectation of 3.4%. On a monthly basis, the CPI rose to 0.6% …

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• 18 August 2021 4:31 pm

  The Dollar is Falling in Europe But Remains at High Levels

  The dollar fell in Europe on Wednesday but remained at elevated levels as global growth concerns, caused by the ongoing outbreak of the Delta virus, prompted traders to reduce their positions on riskier currencies. At 07:55 GMT, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six other …

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• 18 August 2021 3:12 pm

  Eurozone Final CPI Revised Lower in July

  

  According to Eurostat’s final reading of the Eurozone CPI report for July, the consumer prices came in at 2.2% on a yearly basis, meeting 2.2% expectations. While the core figures rose by 0.7%. Month-on-month inflation in the region fell 0.1%, in line with the median forecast of economists polled by …

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• 18 August 2021 2:20 pm

  UK Inflation Slows More Than Expected in July

  

  British inflation slowed faster than expected in July, according to official data released on Wednesday, August 18, to 2% on an annual basis, compared to 2.5% in June. Economists polled by Reuters had expected inflation for July to be 2.3%. Official data showed that the rate of inflation in Britain …

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