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The Canadian dollar was weakened following Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech that indicated Fed’s commitment to fight inflation. The market’s reaction has sent the US dollar higher, while the US 2-year yield, the most sensitive to interest rate increases, climbed.The USD/CAD pair is trimming some of Wednesday’s losses, climbing towards …

Fed Chief Jerome Powell lately curbed his long-lived optimism that policymakers can eventually carry out a soft landing for the US economy. But as signs of a recession accumulate, the Fed’s new objective has changed into avoiding a painful crash.Powell signaled that the Fed will adopt monetary policy tightening for …

WTI crude oil is settling at $97.01; highest since July 29. Continuing clashes in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, are threatening oil supply, moreover, the OPEC+ meeting is also a concern as Saudi Arabia has threatened production cuts. Earlier on Monday, WTI oil moved above the $96 level as traders focused …

Bitcoin took the journey, on Monday from the opening price at $19571.30 to $20199.30 at the time of writing. It last traded at this level in July when the bulls took over the market and initiated an uptrend.Since a big stone was thrown into the market waters by Jerome Powell’s …

Gold price bounced from five-week lows on Monday, amidst a downbeat market mood, after last Friday’s hawkish remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, spurred a fall in equities, propelling the greenback and US Treasury bond yields to fresh weekly highs. At the time of writing, XAU/USD is trading at …

Gold prices fell on Monday to their lowest level in a month, after the continued tightening of monetary policy to reduce inflation led to the decline in the attractiveness of the non-yielding precious metal and the rise of the dollar. And gold fell in spot transactions 0.9 percent to $ …

After dropping nearly $25 following the highly anticipated speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, gold could be at risk of falling to $1,600 an ounce unless buyers step in to buy the dip, according to analysts. The Fed chair wants to avoid the mistakes of the 1970s, which is …

Jerome Powell’s comments, before Jackson Hole Symposium, have fuel 1,000-point market collapse, on Friday, as stocks slid for a second week. US equities fell after Powell had said the US central bank “won’t back off in its fight against rapid inflation”. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,008.38 points, or …

Cryptocurrencies and stocks both pushed lower following Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech today. Both cryptocurrencies and major stock indexes lost value this morning, as global market participants responded to the hawkish language that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used in his keynote speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.The price …

The US Dollar Index has surged and managed to regain the uptrend after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech before Fed’s annual Jackson Hole Symposium, Friday morning, as the US central bank chair stressed that the monetary policymakers do not have the luxury to stop raising interest rates in the coming …