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The US dollar edges higher within range-bound holiday markets on Friday in an obviously quiet US trading session following the US Thanksgiving holiday. The American currency is near multi-month lows as the prospect of the Fed’s pace of policy tightening keeps impacting the dollar.Today has all the indicators of another …

Sales of new single‐family houses, in the United States, rose by 7.5% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 632,000, the data published jointly by the US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development showed on Wednesday.Wednesday’s reading followed September’s contraction of 11% and came …

The US dollar capitalized on Monday’s prevalent risk aversion and negative market sentiment to edge higher. Risk aversion dominated markets after China’s National Health Commission reported death cases of Covid-19 patients in Beijing. China also reported over 26,000 new infections on Sunday. Commodity-linked currencies ended the day with losses against …

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 …

US President Joe Biden cautioned on Friday that ““it’s going to take time to get inflation back down to normal levels.”, but he assured that legislation he signed earlier this year will help limit costs for health care and energy. However, he said that “in six short weeks, Americans are …

Thursday’s market sentiment was negative, providing boosting factor for the US Dollar to recover some of the ground lost earlier during the week. The US dollar maintained mixed performance between ups and downs, but tended to advance.The gloomy market sentiment was partly a result of concerns related to the Ukraine-Russia …

WTI is currently changing hands at around $86.40 a barrel. The US Dollar fell on Thursday against all major rival currencies, yields plunged, as market participants rushed to bet on US Fed’s less hawkishness on monetary policy next December. Optimism returned to most assets. US Stocks soared. US indexes are …

The dollar falls sharply on Thursday after US consumer prices for October rose less than expected and pointed to underlying inflation having peaked, this reading has been the sort of data that markets cheered for as it could allow the Fed to ease up on aggressively hiking interest rates.The consumer …

The AUD/USD pair has jumped following the key inflation data in the United States. The CPI figures came below expectations. Speculation above smaller rate hikes from the Fed impacted the US dollar, so, the pair hit at 0.6564, the highest level since late September.Pre-CPI Versus Post-CPIThe US Consumer Price Index …

Wall Street’s major indices opened sharply higher on Thursday. At the same time, data showed consumer prices rose less than expected in October, raising hopes that the US Federal Reserve may ease the pace of future interest rate hikes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 749.97 points, or 2.31 percent, …