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The USD/CAD bulls are moving ahead despite Tuesday’s bearish close. The US Dollar has firmed on hawkish sentiment around the US Fed again versus seemingly dovish stance adopted by the Bank of Canada.. There is a 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level near 1.3350 below the neckline near 1.3380. However, given that …

The USD/CAD pair is holding to gains as traders await clues by Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech later on Tuesday. At the time of writing, the pair is trading at 1.3463, registering 0.12% gains versus the previous closing at 1.3445.On Tuesday, the US trade deficit widened, though market participants ignored …

Of particular interest to stock investors, today is what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has to say at an event organized by The Economic Club of Washington DC. But, most importantly, they want to know his thoughts on the latest Labor Department report, which showed US payrolls grew by more …

Fed’s policymakers began to reflect on the unexpectedly robust jobs report for January, a few hours before Chair Jerome Powell faces questions later on Tuesday on whether the NFP data has shaken his confidence that high inflation will come down without hawkish moves by the central bank to slow the …

Gold prices rose on Tuesday as the dollar weakened, as traders await Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech due later on Tuesday for hints about future interest rate hikes after strong economic data last week. And by 0730 GMT, spot gold rose 0.4 percent to $ 1874.34 an ounce, after …

Investors and traders will be all ears as Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivers his speech on Tuesday. Bond yields continued to surge on Monday as traders assess the possibility that the Fed will postpone any talk about rate cuts until later in the year after Friday’s very strong jobs report.Markets …

Catherine Mann, member of the Bank Of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, backed additional increases of the British central bank’s interest rates. On Monday, Mann warned that the otherwise, namely pausing, as called for by some of her colleagues could involve risk of creating a confusing policy jargon if it turned …

Wall Street’s indexes edged lower on Monday as investors await the US central bank’s Chair Jerome Powell’s speech for direction as well as clues on when the Fed could start interest rate cuts. The latest non-farm payrolls report highlighted the robust situation of the labour market in the United States …

Last week’s strong US jobs report has sent warnings across financial markets that the Fed policymakers could reconsider their upcoming action.Gold price decline is generally stopped on Monday as bulls who entered the market at last Friday’s low of around $1860 and reclaimed $1870. The US Nonfarm Payrolls report and …

Economic data mainly drove the US trading session on Friday. US job growth was the main protagonist in most of the incidents in the market’s story as US job growth soared in January amid a persistently resilient labour market, but a further moderation in wage gains could give the Fed …