The rise of the dollar against sterling was also affected by British domestic factors, after the British government announced last week a plan to cut taxes and increase borrowing. This decreased sterling to $1.0327 on Monday, a record low, after settling near the $1.1300 level ahead of the UK’s budget …
Read More »USD is at its highest level in 20 years and the sterling is under pressure
Nervous financial markets pushed the dollar to a two-decade high on Wednesday, Sept. 28, as rising interest rates around the world fueled recession fears. The pound slid further after recent warnings about Britain’s tax cut plans. The US dollar index rose by about 0.5% to a new record level at …
Read More »European stocks fall at the open on increasing recession fears
European shares opened lower on Wednesday, led by heavy selling in Asian markets as the escalating energy crisis in the region and the continued rise in global bond yields fueled fears of a recession. The European Stoxx 600 index fell 0.8 percent by 0707 GMT, to continue its decline for …
Read More »Japan’s Nikkei closes near 3-month low, hit by recession fears
Japan’s Nikkei index ended trading on Wednesday near its lowest level in three months, as mounting fears of a global recession weighed on Wall Street on Tuesday evening and a media report that Apple Inc. abandoned plans to produce more iPhone phones, dented sentiment. The Nikkei fell 1.5 percent to …
Read More »Euro touches the target and is still crawling negative 28/9/2022
The single European currency continues to crawl negatively against the US dollar within the bearish directional movement and within the expected bearish context yesterday, touching the first target to be achieved at 0.9550, recording its lowest level during the morning trading of the current session at 0.9542. Technically, today, and …
Read More »Pounds rebounds as focus shifts to Bank of England
The British pound rebounded on Tuesday, but its trading was mostly built on hope, profit taking and higher British yields, leaving traders anxious about the broader implications of its record decline. With the dollar weakening, sterling rose by one percent in Asia to $1.0805, up nearly five percent from Monday’s …
Read More »Japan’s Nikkei closes higher, supported by the rise of Fast Retailing shares
Japan’s Nikkei closed higher on Tuesday, led by blue-chip Fast Retailing, as investors scrambled to buy shares battered by a global sell-off, with the US Federal Reserve repeating its stance of maintaining its hawkish policy of raising interest rates. The Nikkei index closed up 0.53 percent at 2,6571.87 points, rebounding …
Read More »Euro is testing resistance, negativity remains 27/9/2022
The general bearish directional movement still dominates the movements of Euro against USD within weak bullish attempts that targeted a retest of 0.9700, and it returns to trading negatively again. On the technical side, with a closer look at the 240-minute chart, we find that the negative crossover of the …
Read More »Japan’s forex intervention estimated at $25 billion – Reuters
Citing calculations made by Tokyo money market brokerage firms, Reuters reported on Monday that Japan’s intervention in the foreign exchange market on September 22 is estimated to be around 3.6 trillion yen ($25 billion). Japan’s Ministry of Finance is expected to unveil the amount spent during the intervention on Friday. …
Read More »European Stoxx 600 index falls, Italian shares rise
The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell for the third consecutive session on Monday on fears of an economic slowdown. However, Italian stocks gained after the victory of the right-wing coalition led by Georgia Meloni in the country’s general elections. The index fell 0.3 percent by 0713 GMT, extending its losses …
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