The USD/CAD pair is gaining some 0.82% courtesy of Fed officials on Thursday as Fed’s Mester and Bullard estimate the Federal funds rate to peak around 4.5%.The Canadian economy Canada grew 0.1% MoM in July, exceeding estimations and the the USD/CAD marches firmly towards the 1.3700 figure after diving close …
Read More »Fed’s Bullard: Central banks to react to Fed’s intentions
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said on Thursday that the Federal Reserve is having to raise rates pretty rapidly to get to a minimally appropriate level to tackle inflation, as reported by Reuters.The greenback stays on the backfoot after these comments and the US Dollar Index was …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session 28/09/2022
Gold prices soared, and XAUUSD trades at $1,660 per troy ounce, its highest for the week. Crude oil prices recovered, and WTI settled at $82.00 a barrel. The US dollar pushed its rally throughout the first half of the trading day but changed its direction dramatically after Wall Street’s opening. …
Read More »EUR/USD around 20 year lows
The EUR/USD is pressured and teasing two-decade low marked earlier in the week. Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline leaks, in the Baltic Sea, renewed fears about Europe’s energy crisis, and at the same time raised recession-linked fears. The EUR/USD pair holds lower grounds around the yearly bottom marked on Monday, …
Read More »USD/CAD fluctuates amid negative market sentiment
The USD/CAD pair edges up but it earlier on the day it was still below the Year-To-Date highs at around 1.3730s, afterwards, it is trading at 1.34447 at the time of writing. Truth to say that US economic data was positive, supportive of the Fed’s current policy stance.The US CB …
Read More »US shares abandon earlier gains on Fed official’s remarks
More pain for equities seems to constitute a new status quo. Wall Street’s main indexes sank deeper Tuesday after earlier rally in stocks on positive economic data. The latest retreat comes after Fed policymakers defended more interest rate hikes even at the risk of slowing economic growth.The benchmark S&P 500 …
Read More »Fed’s Bullard downplays recession risk on US level
Speedy US rate hikes raised the risk of recession, but it is likely to be caused by an outside shock rather than from the collapse of the American economy that remains robust according to statements by St. Louis Fed president James Bullard.Bullard said, at an economic forum in London, that …
Read More »Gold jumps 1% amid dollar weakness and rate hike fears
Gold prices jumped 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar weakened, although the Federal Reserve’s expectations of a further interest rate hike kept the precious metal near its lowest level in two and a half years. And the price of gold in spot transactions increased by 1.1 percent to 1639.94 …
Read More »Gold Hits fresh lows amid fears to fall further
Gold is sliding into fresh lows after being held back by the bears below $1,650 on corrections on Monday. The precious metal dropped to the lowest in more than two years while the US dollar extends its uptrend due to recession-linked fears and rising interest rates. The US bond yields …
Read More »Gold prices fell near their lowest level in two and a half years, as the dollar rose
Gold prices settled near their lowest level in two and a half years today, Monday, affected by the rise in the dollar and with the adoption of a tough stance by major central banks on interest rates to reduce inflation. And the price of gold in spot transactions fell 0.3% …
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