“The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to raise the deposit rate for the first time in over a decade in July and bring it out of negative territory at its following meeting in September, despite a 30% chance of recession within a year,” per the latest Reuters poll of …
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On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) edged up to near 98.00, but failed to sustain early gai…
U.S. Treasury Yields Climb as Tariff Threats Weaken Yen
On Tuesday, July 8, 2025, U.S. Treasury bond yields experienced a notable uptick as financial market…
Stock Market Wobbles as Tariff Push and Copper Duties Rattle Investors
U.S. stocks ended mixed, with the S&P 500 down 0.07% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fallin…
U.S. Prepares for New Trade Announcements and Copper Tariffs by August
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed plans to release 15 to 20 new trade-related directiv…
China’s Forex Reserves Surge, Gold Holdings Grow for Eighth Month
China’s foreign exchange reserves soared to $3.3174 trillion by June 2025, marking a $32.2 billion (…
EUR/USD Rises Amid Trump’s Tariff Letter and EU Trade Hopes
On Tuesday, the EUR/USD pair, the world’s most traded currency pair, edged up 0.09% to 1.1718, drive…
Trump’s Tariff Letter Looming as EU Races for Trade Deal
President Donald Trump announced a forthcoming letter to the EU within two days outlining tariff det…
Despite short-term declines, strong investor demand for gold and silver features FY2025
As of July 8, 2025, at 19:13 GMT+3, the spot gold price stands at $3,297.175 per ounce, down 1.18% d…
Sterling’s Slide: Can the Pound Weather UK Fiscal Woes and Fed Caution?
The British Pound is losing ground against the US Dollar, with GBP/USD dipping below the 20-day simp…
Oil Prices Retreat Amid U.S. Tariff Uncertainty and OPEC+ Output Increase
Oil prices retreated on Tuesday after rising nearly 2% in the previous session, as investors assesse…
Market Analysis
May, 2022
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17 May 2022 4:12 am
US shares slide as slowdown signals digested
The S&P 500 dropped, dragged lower by a slide in megacaps including Tesla Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. The risk of an economic slowdown amid price pressures and rising borrowing costs is still the major concern for markets.Equities fell back toward session lows in the last hour of trading …
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17 May 2022 2:23 am
GBP/JPY Eases, Eying UK Jobs Data
The GBP/JPY has faded from a two-day rebound near 159.00 as traders await UK data during Tuesday’s Asian session. The cross-currency pair remains inside a one-month-old descending trend channel formation, recently firmer around the 50% Fibonacci retracement (Fibo.) of December 2021 to April 2022 upside.The GBP/JPY pair’s breakout of 50% …
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17 May 2022 1:30 am
Former Fed chair warns of stagflation crisis
The former Federal Reserve chairman warned of a coming economic morass in the next decade. Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke warns in his new book that the United States could face simultaneous sky-high unemployment and inflation on levels not seen since the 1970s.Bernanke, who ran the US central bank from …
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16 May 2022 11:36 pm
European woes undermine demand for EUR/USD
Geopolitically; EU ministers cannot reach an agreement on new sanctions against Russia as ECB’s Lagarde and Fed’s Powell get ready to deliver their speeches on Tuesday, meanwhile the EUR/USD pair holds modest gains above 1.0400, corrective advance could extend to 1.0470.The EUR/USD pair ended Monday achieving modest gains in the …
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16 May 2022 10:49 pm
Silver rallies above $21.50 on sliding Treasury yields
Silver price is rallying more than 2% in the day amidst falling US Treasury yields. Market sentiment has improved during the US session, a headwind for the dollar.Silver holds ground for the last two trading days and advances firmly in the US session, almost 2% up, and is closing at …
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16 May 2022 10:13 pm
GBP/USD targets upside correction
The GBP/USD is higher by 0.17% in midday US trading session, pulling away from the consolidation between 1.2150 and 1.2250 after travelling from a low of 1.2216 to a high of 1.2296 so far on the day. Global growth concerns have been the main focus at the start of the …
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16 May 2022 9:28 pm
Treasury yields slide on global slowdown concerns
Treasury yields were little changed to lower Monday morning as weak factory data in the US and an unexpectedly big drop in retail sales in China reinforced concerns about a global slowdown.Weak data from China also underscored worries about a demand slowdown, sending oil futures lower in the New York …
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16 May 2022 8:42 pm
Fed has new plan to avoid recession
Earlier this month Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced a half-percentage-piont increase in interest rates, the largest hike in over two decades. Powell also indicated that he wouldn’t hesitate to do it again — a move straight out of the central bank’s 1994 playbook, when the Fed last tempered the US …
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16 May 2022 8:24 pm
Gold Price Recovers as bulls regain serenity
The Gold Index has recovered some ground after earlier slipping below the $1800 mark on Friday, on higher US Treasury yields, which during the session are sliding, thus lifting the prospects of the non-yielding metal. XAU/USD is trading almost flat, around $1811.02 a troy ounce.As for market sentiment, the rhetoric …
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16 May 2022 7:48 pm
NZD/USD prints fresh highs, remains below 0.6300
The NZD/USD pair has climbed to 0.6295 during the American session touching its highest level since Thursday. The pair is surging as the USD dollar’s strength takes a pause and amid lower US Treasury yields.The Dow Jones Index has fallen by 0.27% but still holds to most of Friday’s rally. …
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16 May 2022 7:11 pm
BoE’s Bailey: Food prices worry UK
BoE Governor Andrew Bailey on Monday said that food prices are a major worry for the UK and developing world, reported Reuters. Speaking alongside Bailey at a House of Commons Treasury Committee, BoE’s Michael Saunders said that inflation would still be well above the bank’s target this year even if …
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16 May 2022 4:53 pm
Agency: Russian oil production rises 1.7% month-on-month in May so far
Russia’s average production of oil and gas condensate increased by about 1.7 percent on a monthly basis to 1.4 million tons per day (10.25 million barrels per day) in the first half of May, Interfax news agency reported, citing a source. It also said that Russian oil exports – excluding …
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