Market Analysis

March, 2022

  • 31 March 2022 11:12 pm

    EUR/JPY Sharply Reverses As European Stocks, Yields Drop

    Japan

    Risk-off flows in European equities coupled with downside in Eurozone yields weighed heavily on EUR/JPY on Thursday. The pair was last trading down 1.0% in the 154.50 area, a sharp reversal from intra-day highs closer to 157.00.A sharp drop in Eurozone yields coupled with downside in major European equity bourses …

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  • 31 March 2022 11:03 pm

    US Shares Retreat On Dismal Market Sentiment

    US equities are recording losses in the North American session as Wall Street is about to finish March on a lower note. The S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite are falling between 0.30% and 0.43%, each one sitting at 4,576.32, 35075.94, and 15,014.01 respectivelyObviously, a …

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  • 31 March 2022 8:24 pm

    Oil plunges, global stocks fall as risk appetite flags

    Global stocks fell on Thursday as recession concerns and the Russian-Ukranian war curbed demand for risky assets, while oil prices plunged over $5 on news that the United States may release some of its emergency oil reserves.With Thursday’s drop, US and European stocks are set for their worst quarterly performance …

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  • 31 March 2022 7:11 pm

    US To Release 1M Barrels A Day Of Oil Reserve For Six Months

    The Biden Administration will release 1M barrels per day in oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next six months, according to a statement released by the White House on Thursday. The White House statement continued that the President will call on Congress to pass his plan …

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  • 31 March 2022 5:13 pm

    US annual Core PCE inflation rises to 5.4% in February

    Annual inflation in the US rose to 5.4% in February according to the latest Core PCE Price Index reading released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday. That was a tad below the expected reading of 5.5% YoY, but above January’s 5.2% reading. The MoM gain in prices …

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  • 31 March 2022 4:37 pm

    US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims rise to 202K

    Initial Jobless Claims in the week ending on 26 March came in at 202,000, a tad above the expected reading of 197,000 and up versus the previous week’s 188,000 print. Continued Jobless Claims fell to 1.307M in the week ending on March 19, below the expected rise to 1.35M from …

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  • 31 March 2022 3:22 pm

    Moody’s withdraws all credit ratings of Russian entities

    Moody’s said it has withdrawn all credit ratings of Russia and designated Russian quasi-sovereign entities. The agency said it decided to withdraw the ratings for commercial reasons of its own. Last week, Moody’s announced its intention to withdraw its credit ratings for entities, following similar moves by global rating agency …

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  • 31 March 2022 3:04 pm

    OPEC + Ministerial Monitoring Committee agreed to adhere to the production policy in May

    OPEC

    An OPEC + source said that the OPEC + Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee agreed to adhere to the current oil production policy and increase production by 432,000 barrels per day as of May. according to reuters.

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  • 31 March 2022 2:23 pm

    European shares recorded a slight increase and the oil sector fell

    European Stocks

    European shares rose on Thursday, led by gains in automakers and defense sectors, while oil stocks tumbled, as a US plan to withdraw from strategic petroleum reserves sent crude prices down. The European index rose 0.2 percent, although oil stocks fell 1.5 percent. The FTSE 100 index in London rose …

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  • 31 March 2022 1:22 pm

    Britain’s economy records faster-than-expected growth in the fourth quarter of 2021

    uk

    Britain’s economy grew more than expected in the last three months of 2021, when a wave of Omicron infections hit the country. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product in the world’s fifth-largest economy rose 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the previous …

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  • 31 March 2022 12:30 pm

    Nikki relegates and records the biggest quarterly loss in two years

    Japan’s Nikkei closed lower on Thursday, posting its worst quarterly performance in two years. The Nikkei closed down 0.73 percent to 27,821.43 points. The broader Topix index fell 1.08 percent to 1,946.40 points. On a quarterly basis, the Nikkei lost 3.37 percent, its biggest decline since the quarter ending in …

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  • 31 March 2022 11:51 am

    Canada’s crude oil imports fall to their lowest level since 1988

    Data from Canada’s energy regulator showed on Wednesday that the country’s imports of crude oil in 2021 fell to their lowest level in more than three decades as domestic supplies increased. The data indicated that imports fell about 20 percent in 2021 to 473,000 barrels per day, from 579,000 barrels …

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  • 31 March 2022 11:04 am

    Gold is on track to post its biggest quarterly gain since September 2020

    Gold fell in limited trading on Thursday, but the safe-haven metal is set for its biggest quarterly gain since September 2020, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict made it more attractive. And gold fell in spot transactions 0.6 percent to $ 1921.55 an ounce by 0507 GMT. US gold futures fell 0.7 …

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