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The British pound rallied on Tuesday as the US dollar weakened and investors ignored an unexpected drop in monthly retail sales data in Britain. The dollar fell after investors returned to riskier currencies while a successful phone call between the United States’ top trade officials and China sparked a positive …

The dollar and euro were cautious in trading on Wednesday, August 26th, with dealers reluctance to make risky bets ahead of an important speech by US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. In light of growing expectations that Powell will unveil a more tolerant policy towards inflation at the annual Jackson …

The euro rose as the dollar fell due to concerns about the strength of the US economic recovery after job data that came below expectations, while the Chinese yuan rose to its highest level in seven months as traders bet on China’s growth. Traders in the single European currency are …

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has set the yuan reference rate at 6.9362 versus Friday’s fix at 6.9405

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) injected CNY700 billion via one-year medium-term lending (MLF) facility on Monday. The Chinese central bank issued the one-year MLF at 2.95%, unchanged from the previous operation. The PBOC kept the rates unchanged for the fourth straight month. USD/CNY is under pressure, looking to extend …

FX option expiries for Aug 17 NY cut at 10:00 Eastern Time, via DTCC, can be found below. – EUR/USD: EUR amounts 1.1900 937m  – GBP/USD: GBP amounts         1.3090 623m – USD/JPY: USD amounts          105.50 534m105.65 624m   106.02 438m – NZD/USD: NZD amounts 0.6575 301m 

Optimism regarding the development of a vaccine of Covid-19 continued to dominate the markets. Also, Democratic and Republican parties failed to reach an agreement on the second stimulus and financing package of Coronavirus. The US currency suffered heavy losses during last week’s, to record a decline for the eighth consecutive …

The yellow metal was dominant last week, as it recorded a rise of more than 3% or $ 61 to reach $ 2028 an ounce. The rise in gold came after increasing tensions between the United States and China besides the increase in Covid-19 cases, especially in the US. Oil …

The USD / CHF fell in the European session and moved to the lower end of the daily range around the 0.9080 area. After rising to levels above 0.9100, the pair faced some new offers and sailed to the negative zone for the third consecutive session on Thursday. However, a …

The USD / CAD weakened further and fell below 1.3300 to the lowest level since February 26 during the European session today. The pair saw some subsequent sell-off during the first half of trading on Wednesday and broke below the monthly support levels in June near the 1.3315 area, and …