US shares remarkably surged Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.31% to 4,701.21 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.10% to 35,754.75. Stocks surged led by overall positivity across the financial markets …
Read More »Gold Rises as The Dollar Falls, Eyes on US Inflation Data
Gold prices rose to their highest in a week on Wednesday as the dollar and US bond yields fell and the precious metal received a boost as a safe haven due to tensions related to Ukraine with US consumer price data due later this week. The price of gold in …
Read More »Banks Raise Concerns Over US Inflation
Officials from some US banks on Tuesday said that there are real concerns about the impact of higher inflation, adding pressure on the Federal Reserve to implement plans to slow down the pace of its tapering at a faster pace.The International Monetary Fund last week warned of intensifying inflationary pressures, …
Read More »Gold Rises With The Decline of The Dollar
Gold futures traded modestly lower on Monday, as a pickup in Treasury yields and the US dollar helped to dull appetite Gold prices rose Tuesday, December 7th, supported by the dollar’s decline, but rising US Treasury yields and fears that the US Federal Reserve would tighten monetary policy more than …
Read More »ECB’s Holzman: Eurozone Inflation Not To Drop in 2022
European Central Bank governing council member Robert Holzmann said on Monday that inflation in the Eurozone would unlikely fall below 2.0% in 2022, according to Reuters citing Handelsblatt. Holzmann added that inflation is set to reach its peak sometime around the turn of the year. Holzmann said that the ECB …
Read More »Gold declines as tapering remains in focus
Gold futures traded modestly lower on Monday, as a pickup in Treasury yields and the US dollar helped to dull appetite for the precious metal, which has been held in check by uncertainties about the spread of omicron and Federal Reserve policies.The most active February delivery gold contract GCG22, -0.16% …
Read More »Weekly Recap 29 Nov. – 3 Dec.
America and Germany decided to adopt stricter restrictions to circumvent COVID-19 on Thursday, away Austria, there are tailored or modified lockdowns elsewhere all over the globe to combat the emergence of the new Omicron strain. Such measures provoked turmoil across financial markets, lest it could ignite severe global economic slowdown …
Read More »Wells Fargo: NFP Pushes FOMC To Gray Zone
November’s NFP data showed an increase in payrolls of 210000, significantly below the 550000 expected. According to Wells Fargo’s analysts, this reading is clear evidence that nonfarm payrolls are below consensus expectations. They add that a slower pace of wage growth may slightly ease some concerns about a wage price …
Read More »Jobs Data, Fed Speakers Push T-Yields Higher
US Treasury yields jumped higher on Thursday as investors returned to attractive riskier assets and Federal Reserve officials talked up a quicker end to the central bank’s bond purchases.The benchmark 10-year yield , which had fallen to as low as 1.409% earlier in the session, was last 2 basis points …
Read More »EUR/USD Expected to Boom In 2022
The US dollar is expected to stay strong in 2022. EUR/USD and USD/JPY could trade at 1.10 and 120.00, respectively.Those expectations are based upon the idea that sharper Fed tightening cycle to push the dollar ahead. Assuming that Omicron risks play out closer to the benign end of the spectrum, …
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