Gold and silver prices are higher closer to daily highs in afternoon US trading session on Wednesday, following a broadly expected small interest rate hike by the US Fed.Gold is trading at 1950.14 at the time of writing. April gold was up $15.30 at $1,960.40 and March silver was up …
Read More »Gold rose to an 8-month high as investors awaited inflation data
Gold rose to its highest level in eight months on Wednesday, supported by the dollar’s decline, but it is still moving in a relatively narrow range as investors await inflation data that may affect the Federal Reserve (US Central Bank) raising interest rates. And by 0615 GMT, spot gold prices …
Read More »Gold Cautiously Moves Higher Ahead Of US CPI Data
The US Dollar is starting to recover after dropping to seven-month lows and a rebound could follow a higher Consumer Price Index data. Gold price is trading at $1877.24 at the time of writing, higher by almost 0.3% versus the previous closing price at $1871.65 on Monday, after climbing from …
Read More »USD/CAD edges higher amid thin market
The US Dollar has regained some momentum and managed to climb against the Canadian counterpart. The USD/CAD pair bounces off nearby the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at 1.3532 and rises toward the 20-day EMA, during the first trading day of 2023 in the US session, so, the pair is …
Read More »November’s US Pending Home Sales below expectations
Pending Home Sales in the US declined by 4% on a monthly basis in November, the data published by the National Association of Realtors showed on Wednesday. This reading followed October’s decrease of 4.6% and came in much worse than the market expectation for an increase of 0.6%.Following this data, …
Read More »US: International trade deficit declines to $83.3 billion in November
International trade deficit of the US declined by $15.5 billion in October while the US Dollar Index is hovering around 104.22 after the data, showing no immediate reaction to this report. The data published by the US Census Bureau revealed on Tuesday that the US international rate deficit declined by …
Read More »Stability of dollar with the tightening of Covid restrictions in China
The price of the dollar stabilized on Tuesday after rising the previous day, as investors flock to the safe-haven currency in light of fears of an increase in Corona infections in China, while the Bitcoin currency is under pressure after fears related to the repercussions of the collapse of the …
Read More »Dollar rises after purchases on concern
The US dollar rose strongly against major currencies on Monday, November 21, at a time when the Chinese yuan fell as sentiment deteriorated due to the rise in coronavirus infections and the tightening of restrictions in some cities in the second largest economy in the world. The Chinese capital, Beijing, …
Read More »US Dollar Index hovers around 106.80, economic data in focus
The US Dollar index trades within a tight range near 106.80 on Friday as US bond yields reverse direction and now slip back to the red territory.The US dollar exchanges gains with losses in the 106.70 region when gauged by the USD Index amid the generalized lack of direction in …
Read More »Fed’s Harker: Not worried about inflation expectations
On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker said “My best guess is we will remove about $2.5 trillion from the balance sheet overall but data will guide us,”.“We want to reduce the balance sheet methodically until we start to see where we need to stop,” Parker added …
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