The USD/CAD pair extends its decline from weekly highs around 1.3220s reached on Thursday, spurred by elevated US PPI data, which showed that inflation is far from peaking, triggering an uptick in expectations of a Fed 100 bps hike, which later eased as Fed policymakers pushed back against those assumptions.The …
Read More »Fed’s Daly: Not concerned about debate on rate hikes
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said on Friday that she is not concerned above “over cooking things” on rate hikes. Daly also noted that US consumers continue to spend and that the labour market is still robust.However, Daly mentioned that “Inflation is too high” and that the Fed is …
Read More »Gold Retreats On Stronger USD
Gold prices fell on Friday, July 15, and remained on track for the fifth consecutive weekly decline, as the continued rise in the dollar and fears of a sharp rise in US interest rates affected the demand for bullion. And the price of gold in spot transactions fell 0.3% to …
Read More »Gold in historic bearish cycle as USD maintains Forex king’s status
Producer price pressures are still too strong to delay any Fed’s future rate hikes. The US dollar could continue to receive support from the recession-linked fears in and outside the United States. Gold has been pressured on Thursday due to a rising US dollar and hawkish sentiment surrounding the Fed …
Read More »Fed’s Waller supports 75 bps hike at July meeting
“I think it is plausible that we have a growth recession where it goes below longer-run average but doesn’t go negative,” Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday. Waller added that markets would also price a 100 basis points rate hike in July, Waller is also open to a …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – Wednesday, July 13
The Bank of Canada hiked its policy interest rate by 100 bps to 2.5% in July, compared to the market expectation for a rate increase of 75 bps. The BOC acknowledged that it had underestimated inflation since the 2021 spring because of global factors. USD/CAD slid to 1.2933, and trades …
Read More »Fed’s Barkin: Ups the case to be “resolute” on inflation
Richmond Federal Reserve president Thomas Barkin told Wall Street Journal that he believes headline and core inflation is too high.“I definitely see signs of softening,” Barkin said, with the evidence “most pronounced in lower income households” and in parts of the economy that saw demand surge during the pandemic.Barkin also …
Read More »BOC’s Macklem: A soft landing is achievable
Following the Bank of Canada’s (BOC) decision to hike the policy rate by 100 basis points to 2.5% in July, Governor Tiff Macklem is delivering his remarks on the policy outlook and responding to questions from the press.Meanwhile, Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers argued that part of restoring the balance …
Read More »Turkish unemployment rate fell to 10.9% in May
Data on Wednesday showed that Turkey’s unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage point on a monthly basis in May, while the seasonally adjusted disguised unemployment rose 0.8 percentage point to 22.4 percent. Disguised unemployment was declining for most of the past year, after it peaked at 29.6 percent in January 2021 …
Read More »Turkey’s inflationary pressures would continue due to domestic, global factors
Turkish unemployment data was released this morning, and the number of unemployed people in Turkey reached 3 million 785 thousand people, and the unemployment rate reached 10.9%. According to the data announced by TUIK today, the number of official unemployed people across the country decreased by 56 thousand in May …
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