Many are still expecting a Fed pause next month but the jobs market isn't cooperating as it record a 13th straight month of non-farm payrolls beating the consensus estimate. A crisis of confidence among regional and mid-sized U.S. banks, which first broke out in March, has also resurfaced, and adding to these concerns is the potential U.S. debt default, the...
The U.S. dollar rose against the Pound Sterling on Friday and was on track for its biggest weekly gain since February despite concern about the U.S. debt ceiling and monetary policy. The aftermath of the consumer sentiment data is rippling a mixed reaction across the market ahead of the new week. Participants continue to digest features from the U.K economic...
Despite Friday's report that showed U.S. consumer sentiment slumped to a six-month low in May, the US dollar rose. The Gold commodity has been a popular inflation edge, but the sentiment in the market is looking "mixed" as worries that political haggling to raise the borrowing cap could trigger a recession in the US. In this regard, the XAUUSD chart reflects an...
Gold tumbles from the previous session’s record high of above $2,080 to clings at the key level at $2,000 as data from the US Labor Department on Friday suggests no pausing of rate hikes in June. As market participants settle down to digest the latest development in the market, close attention will be on the consumer price index data for April and May ahead of the...
GBPUSD price moved 0.45% higher hereby closing the previous week at the 1.26550 zone, hitting a new one-year high amidst the Bank of England battle with inflation. Consumer price inflation in the UK came in at 10.1% - five times the BOE’s mandate. The incoming week is laced with a handful of high-impact economic events from both the UK and US economic docket to...
Driven by worries about demand linked to recession risks and the strain in the US banking sector, the oil prices experienced a dramatic decline in the previous week (6.5% drop). However, Oil prices received a boost after Friday’s robust US jobs report which eased concerns over the prospect of a downturn in the economy as strong jobs growth is often a plus for oil,...
The Japanese Yen advanced during the most part of the previous week, capitalizing on sustained weakness in the US Dollar as markets bet on a Fed Reserve's hint on a potential pause in the Federal Reserve’s rate hike cycle making it one of the viable safe-havens. However, the employment expansion in April was 73,000 beyond expectations, moving the jobless rate a...
Weekly momentum may suggests that intraday momentum is bullish. Last week closed out a very strong bullish engulfing from the low of a weekly range. However The Daily is currently at a key reversal area despite its attempt to create a higher high. The 4 hour has been uptrending with high highs and higher lows despite many weak bullish candles. I believe price is...
The previous week witnessed a risk-averse market atmosphere that helped the US Dollar find demand at the 1,970 area as a safe haven ahead of the FOMC. Economic data from the previous week reveals that though inflation is falling, it still remains well above the Federal Reserve's annual goal of 2% hereby increasing the expectations of another 25 basis-point...
The previous month witnessed a 4% drop in oil prices despite the OPEC+ member's decision to cut a further 1.7 million barrels from its daily output, adding to an earlier pledge from November to take off 2.0 million barrels per day. The implementation of this pledged cut is supposed to begin next month - May 2023 and this could result in some interesting market...
Gold prices continue to trade below the 2,000 level for the second week straight hereby maintaining its choppy situation on the charts which has been attributed to the uncertainty over the path of interest rates decision by May 3rd; It is expected that events in the coming week should make things much clearer. Economists project that the Federal Reserve will agree...
British consumers remain affected by an elevated inflation rate, which stayed in double digits in March. Comments from a couple of Fed policymakers pointed to the US central bank raising interest rates by 25 basis points in early May, judging that inflation is still at problematic levels and monetary policy needs to be tightened. The market's immediate reaction to...
Though within a range, the US dollar was able to incite bullish traction last week as the 131.000 level remains a zone for buying power and a strength for the Dollar is likely following the Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller's comment on more monetary tightening despite evidence of a steady drop in inflation figures. Higher interest rates tend to benefit...
Following a profitable week for us, the US Oil prices rose for a fourth consecutive week, riding on global energy agency IEA’s upgraded demand prospects for 2023 to break out of the $82.00 level for the first time in 5 months, but a resurgent of the US dollar on Friday following Fed Governor Waller’s remarks favoring more rate hikes; shook up some of the gains as...
Economists see a roughly two in three chance that the BoE will raise its interest rate next month to 4.5% from 4.25%, which would be its 12th consecutive rate rise since December 2021. With a week laced week series of high-impact macroeconomic events, the consumer price index will be the centre of focus as expect data on Wednesday to show a fall in consumer price...
Despite US job growth slowing down, the economy still added 236,000 jobs in March though below expectation and has averaged gains of 345,000 per month during the first quarter, well above the level the central bank sees as consistent with its 2% inflation goal. An immediate reaction resulted in the dollar strengthening on Friday hereby suggesting that the Federal...
Gold prices sliced through the key HKEX:2 ,000 level on Tuesday after a sharp drop in U.S. job openings in February. The yellow metal touched its highest in one year on Wednesday as recent U.S. economic data fanned fears of a slowdown and spurred bets the Federal Reserve may ease up on rate hikes. Following the public holiday on Friday, we were not able to see...
Economic data coming out of the US economy has pointed to slowing economic growth, as the increased sentiment that the Fed may pause its tightening policy lingered across the market. The market sentiment is clearly attaching more recessionary risks to the dollar, but when we look at the charts from a technical standpoint, price action is currently sitting in a...