All expectations that signals by BoC and RBA could push the world’s monetary policy actors to accelerate their own timelines for interest rate hikes, ran into a solid wall with the U. S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank announcing they would not hike interest rates so fast, though Fed …
Read More »Market Drivers – U. S. Session 26-10-2021
WTI US crude oil rises during the New York session, trading at $84.30. The market sentiment has remained positive as U. S. shares are supported by U. S. Q3 solid corporate earnings, which helped ease investors’ nervousness around high inflation and central bank monetary policy tightening.In the meantime, the US …
Read More »U. S. Shares continue surging on corporate earnings
U.S. stocks rose as traders watch earnings reports from technology heavyweights including Facebook, while keeping in mind inflation-related concerns and rising Covid-19 risks. Energy and materials sectors are on the lead of the S&P 500 higher after the index whipsawed traders at the start of Monday’s U. S. session. PayPal …
Read More »Natural gas futures reenergized by weekend cold shift
A major colder shift from normal weather over the weekend pushed natural gas futures in early trading Monday. The November delivery Nymex contract was up 35.7 cents to $5.637/MMBtu.Investors observed colder changes to the temperature for the eastern half of the America both for the current week and next week, …
Read More »Weekly Recap 18-22 Oct
From Europe to the United States, market drivers ranged from unemployment, inflation-related concerns, earnings and alarming losses to inventories of energy, particularly natural gas. On Friday, Fed’s Chair Jerome Powell officially announced that the U. S. economy is ready for reducing the asset purchases, however, he did not think that …
Read More »Market Drivers – U. S. Session 18-10-2021
US shares have undergone mixed performance, and tended to rise with the beginning of Monday’s trading session, attempting to overcome the impact of U. S. and Chinese data that cast negative shadows across the global markets after a decline in the growth of the second largest economy in the world.Economic …
Read More »White House pressures OPEC over supply
U. S. Press Secretary Jen Psaki assured that the White House is continuing to press OPEC member states to address the crude oil supply issue. “I would also note that what we’re also working to address is more of a logistics issue of how we are moving supply around the …
Read More »Market Drivers – U. S. Session 14-10-2021
Once again, on Thursday, inflation related concerns were steering investors’ decisions on picking safe haven assets away from interest bearing investments.Speaking to a virtual gathering of the Euro50 Group on Thursday, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard described the inflation trend as “concerning.”U.S. shares surged Thursday reacting to banks’ strong …
Read More »AUD/USD holds second place on the lead
AUD/USD is second whereas the Canadian dollar holds first place on Wednesday in New York closing in the countdown just hours before Thursday’s Asian session’s key event that will reveal Australia’s jobs data for September.At the closing bell, AUD/USD was 0.45% higher on the day at 0.7380 after moving from …
Read More »U.S. material and energy stocks rose over oil prices surge
Oil prices surged on Monday to significant highs, the move is boosting U.S. materials and energy stocks, but concerns that rising prices would worsen supply chain caused Wall Street to give up early gains.U.S. crude jumped 2.5% to $81.31 per barrel, a level not seen since late 2014, and Brent …
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