The EUR/USD pair fell as speculation on Fed’s intentions regarding interest rate pace has decreased. The EUR/USD is erasing some of Tuesday’s gains as US T-bond yields are seen rising again, while US Services PMI data, even though slowed, is still at expansionary territory. At the time of writing, the …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 4/10/2022
The Kremlin said Tuesday (October 4) that Tesla founder Elon Musk has outlined a possible peace deal with Ukraine as a “positive step,” hours after Kyiv criticized Musk’s call for a negotiated settlement to the seven-month conflict.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that Moscow was always …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 28/9/2022
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 »Eurozone Consumer Confidence Falls to Record Low
Consumer confidence in the eurozone retreated to record low in September amid accelerating concerns about increased costs of living and slowdown of the EU economy. The European Commission said Thursday that its measure of consumer confidence in the region fell by 3.8 points in September from the August reading. The …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 21/9/2022
The British government said on Wednesday it would reduce the wholesale cost of electricity and gas to businesses and businesses to less than half the market price from next month to help ease the burden of soaring energy costs but adding to rapidly rising government spending. The wholesale price of …
Read More »EUR/USD faces danger of dipping further towards 0.95
The EUR/USD continues to move sideways around the parity level ahead of next week’s FOMC meeting. The risks on the EUR/USD are tilted to the downside and they warn it could drop to 0.95.The insecurely position of growth in the Eurozone in the coming months may mean that higher short-term …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 15/9/2022
In his speech at the annual international conference of the Center for Research on Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector (CIRSF) on Thursday, European Central Bank Deputy Governor Luis de Guindos said that there are significant threats facing the future of the European Union’s financial system, which have made …
Read More »US: Retail Sales rise by 0.3% in August
Retail Sales in the US stayed increased by 0.3% to $683.3 billion in August, the data published by the US Census Bureau showed on Thursday. This reading followed July’s decrease of 0.4% (revised from 0%) and came in better than the market expectation for a no-change. Retail Sales ex Autos …
Read More »ECB’s Villeroy expects reaching neutral rate by end of 2022
European Central Bank’s policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday that he estimates the euro area neutral rate at below or close to 2% and added that they could reach it by the end of the year.“Monetary normalization is fully warranted in the euro area, too early to say …
Read More »US Retail Sales Preview
The US Census Bureau will release the August Retail Sales report on Thursday, September 15 at 12:30 GMT, and as we get closer to the release time, here are the forecasts of economists and researchers of three major banks regarding the upcoming data. Commerzbank “The drop in gasoline prices is …
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