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Retail Sales in Canada declined by 0.5% on a monthly basis in September, the data published by Statistics Canada revealed on Tuesday. This reading followed August’s increase of 0.4% and came in slightly better than the market expectation for a decrease of 0.7%. Further details of the publication revealed that …

San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said on Monday that she is not prepared to say what hike the Fed should do at December’s Federal Open Market Committee. Daly insists that all options are available, so she is not taking anything off the table for December.Daly believes that at …

Inflation, geopolitical tensions and global growth-linked worries impacted almost all financial markets. EU inflation retreated in October but is still hot. The EUR/USD pair held above the 1.0300 level with no signs of declining.As the Fed’s battle against inflation arrives at a new and more challenging stage, services will be …

The Swiss National Bank will continue to raise rates if inflation projections are seen above target according to SNB’s governing board member Andrea Maechler.On Thursday, Maechler also noted that the battle against inflation has not been won despite a dip in Swiss inflation to 3.0% in October from 3.3% in …

The S&P 500 fell on Thursday and US bond yields jumped as Fed officials signaled their rate-hiking campaign to slow inflation is not over.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed, after falling as much as 314 points in the session. The S&P 500 slipped 0.25%, while the Nasdaq Composite …

BoE’s Swati Dhingra said on Wednesday that the British central bank could deepen an expected recession if its pushes up borrowing costs beyong the present level.“You could think of getting into a much deeper, much longer recession if rates continue to rise because there is already about a fairly sizeable …

Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan has recently hinted that further interest rate hikes were on the way from the central bank. He previously said “determined action” is required to check rising prices. On Monday, Jordan noted there is a “great probability” that the SNB will need to tighten monetary …

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard indicated Monday that the central bank could soon slow the pace of its interest rate increases.With markets expecting a likely step down in December from the Fed’s rapid pace of rate increases this year, Brainard confirmed that a slowdown if not a stop is …

The price action of gold, next week, will look for direction mostly from the US dollar which attains a special standing as the key driver for gold’s ability to continue to this week’s rally.Gold is quickly becoming the asset to watch amid hot inflation as well as when inflation starts …

The sterling extended its gains towards 1.1790s after a soft US inflation report. The US Dollar sharplyfalls during the US session, as the US Dollar Index edged down 1.20%, below the 107.000 mark.The Consumer sentiment reading in the United States worsened as inflation expectations rose. The Pound Sterling keeps rising …