{"id":64120,"date":"2022-04-20T05:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=64120"},"modified":"2022-04-20T05:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:14:57","slug":"market-drivers-us-session-19-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/market-drivers-us-session-19-april\/04\/20\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Drivers \u2013 US Session \u2013 19 April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Money flowed out of bonds again, sending the 10-year Treasury yield higher by 4 basis points to 2.9%. The bond market continues to price in aggressive rates by the Federal Reserve this year.<br><br><strong>Economic Data<br><\/strong>Housing Starts rose by 0.3% in March, taking the rolling 12-month number of starts to 1.793M, above expectations for a drop to 1.745M from 1.788M in February, data released by the US Census Bureau on Tuesday showed. Meanwhile, Building Permits rose by 0.4%, taking the rolling 12-month number of permits to 1.873M, above expectations for a drop to 1.825M from 1.865M in February. The economic calendar had no other remarkable releases during the North America trading session on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Other Developments<br><\/strong>The current battle by central banks worldwide to curb inflation continued to boost bond markets, where U.S. Treasury yields continued to move upward.<br><br>The Federal Reserve looks all but certain to raise its interest rate by 50 basis points when it meets next month and a 75 basis point hike has not been ruled out as Fed officials work to curtail inflation.<br><br>St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard repeated his case for raising rates to 3.5% by the year-end on Monday, adding a 75 basis point hike should not be discounted, although this was not his base case. <br><br>There is growing speculation the Federal Reserve will look to ramp up the rate it is tightening its monetary policy. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was last at 2.9051%, down slightly after hitting its highest levels in three years.<br><br>The dollar index (DXY) rose above 101 for the first time since March 2020, as the greenback hit a 20-year high against the yen and tested a two-year peak on the euro. The index was last up 0.1% to 100.88.<br><br>Growth concerns weighed on oil markets Tuesday, reversing recent gains in the commodity amid some concerns about global supply.<br><br>Brent crude was last down 4.87% at $107.65 a barrel, while U.S. crude was last down 4.91% at $102.9 per barrel. <br><br>Gold prices were lower after coming close to reaching $2,000 an ounce during Monday&#8217;s session. Spot gold was last at $1,955.22 an ounce, down 1.17% on the day.<br><br>WTI crude oil futures fell sharply, down around 5% to $102.90 a barrel. 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The bond market continues to price in aggressive rates by the Federal Reserve this year.Economic DataHousing Starts rose by 0.3% in March, taking the rolling 12-month number of starts to 1.793M, above expectations for a drop to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":52794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,39,36],"tags":[6885,9538,7132,8143,9539,6909],"class_list":["post-64120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-commodities-news","category-forex-markets","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-fed","tag-growth-concerns","tag-housing-starts","tag-interest-rate-hikes","tag-recessi","tag-wti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64139,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64120\/revisions\/64139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}