On Wednesday, in the context of prepared remarks to the Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic noted that the US Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation is “still in early days”. Despite “glimmers of hope” in recent data, Bostic said “the overarching message I’m drawing…is that …
Read More »EUR/USD falls from around parity on stronger US dollar
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 »GBP/USD encounters wall of critical resistance
GBP/USD keeps moving back and forth on Tuesday in a day that ran through a vast territory for a fresh high for the week, so far, at 1.1489 from a low of 1.1280. The American dollar was hit hard by lower-than-expected JOLTS data that has accompanied weak Manufacturing data and …
Read More »Wall Street Soaring On Dollar Weakens, US Jobs Data
The yield on the benchmark 10-Year US Treasury note fell 9 basis points to 3.66%, a two-week low, while the dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six developed economy currencies, fell around a quarter point to 110.65. The S&P 500 meanwhile, rose 2.8%, while the Dow …
Read More »Gold hits 3-week high as dollar and bond yields fall
Gold prices hit a three-week high on Tuesday, prompting all precious metals to gain, with the dollar and US Treasury yields falling again after hitting their highest levels in years, restoring the allure of the non-yielding precious metal. And gold rose in immediate transactions 2.5 percent to $ 1707.20 an …
Read More »Gold Price Benefits From Weaker US Dollar
Gold price is holding on the $1701 per ounce level during the first US trading session in October. Gold seems to be currently defending its gains amid a broadly weaker US dollar. However, some economists believe that it stays immersed in a strong downtrend despite the recent respite afforded by …
Read More »Fed’s Williams: Fed still has a way to go
New York Fed President John C. Williams, on Monday, said that the Fed still has a way to go, cites 4.6% median `23 dot.In earlier comments, Williams pointed to three layers of inflation, comparing it to an onion. “The outer layer consist of prices of globally traded commodities such as …
Read More »Financial Markets’ Weekly Recap, September 26-30
The dollar fell last week, as commodity bulls took some breathing; However, this decline was short-lived, as the dollar jumped again to its highest level in 20 years. The dollar’s rise to a high of 112 from a one-week low came, moving back towards levels not seen since May 2002, …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session 30/09/2022
Oil prices dipped on Friday in mixed trading but notched its first weekly gain in five on Friday, underpinned by the possibility that OPEC+ will agree to cut crude output when it meets on October 5. Brent crude futures for November, which expire on Friday, fell 53 cents, or 0.6%, …
Read More »Fed policymakers united on combating inflation
The Fed’s Vice Chair Lael Brainard, on Friday, stressed that any rate cut would be premature. Brainard added her full support of US central bank’s higher for longer plan for interest rates to combat inflation that new data shows is still at more than three times as much as the …
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