Risk-on sentiment continues to dominate global financial markets today, driven by widespread monetary easing and a significant boost from China’s latest stimulus measures. US equities finished strong overnight, with all major indexes posting gains. S&P 500 hit a fresh record for the third consecutive time this week. Meanwhile, Germany’s DAX also surged to an all-time
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Fundamental Overview The USD remains under pressure amid the aggressive market pricing for rate cuts and better global growth expectations following the recent huge Chinese easing measures. It’s now a battle between global growth supporting the risk sentiment and weighing on the greenback and the aggressive rates pricing which could be scaled back if the
Headlines: Markets: JPY leads, GBP lags on the day European equities higher; S&P 500 futures down 0.1% US 10-year yields down 0.4 bps to 3.784% Gold down 0.1% to $2,667.98 WTI Crude up 0.2% to $67.82 Bitcoin up 1.1% to $65,410 Shigeru Ishiba finally won Japan’s top job, as he won the LDP leadership race
Speaking on the occasion, Manish Sarda, Chairman, IFAPA, said, “India is the largest exporter of manganese alloys and the third-largest exporter of ferrochrome. However, the industry’s global standing and foreign exchange generation potential is constrained due to high domestic power prices compared to other exporting geographies, tariffs on key imports, etc. For instance, the current
Costco on Thursday reported ho-hum quarterly results, with a small topline miss being more than offset by strong profitability to deliver an earnings beat. The report didn’t blow us away, but it still offered plenty of reminders on why Costco investors should stick around. Total revenue in its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter totaled $79.7 billion,
Gold price climbed to a fresh all-time peak on Thursday amid dovish Fed expectations. The USD languished near the YTD low and shrugged off Thursday’s upbeat US data. The upbeat market mood caps the XAU/USD ahead of the key US PCE Price Index. Gold price (XAU/USD) extended its record-breaking run for the fifth straight day
Swiss Franc remained relatively stable today following SNB’s decision to cut its policy rate by 25bps, bringing it down to 1.00%. This move defied some market speculations that anticipated a larger 50bps reduction. Despite opting for a smaller cut, SNB issued a decidedly dovish statement, sharply downgrading its inflation forecasts. The central bank signaled a
In this video, I take a look at the three major commodity currency pairs vs the USD: The AUDUSD, USDCAD and NZDUSD. The AUDUSD has been testing swing highs going back to June and July 2023 both yesterday and today. Yesterday the price moved above does highs between 0.68947 and 0.68997, but could not sustain
Headline CPI 2.2% y/y, in line with expectations but down from August expected 2.2%, prior 2.6% Core 2.0% y/y, and ditto, in line with expectations but down from August expected 2.0%, prior 2.4% this is ex food Core-core 1.6% y/y, in line with expectations and an unchanged rate from August expected 1.6%, prior 1.6% this
Gold prices on Thursday jumped by Rs 400 to breach a record Rs 78,000 per 10 gram level in the national capital on sustained buying by jewellers as well as strong trends in global markets. Maintaining its record-breaking run for the second day, gold spurted by Rs 400 to a fresh lifetime high of Rs
AUD/USD recovers sharply from 0.6820 as the Australian Dollar strengthens. Investors await Fed Powell’s speech for fresh interest rate guidance. The core PCE inflation is expected to have accelerated to 2.7% in August. The AUD/USD pair bounces back strongly from Wednesday’s low of 0.6820 to near the round-level resistance of 0.6900 in Thursday’s North American session.
Asian markets are maintaining a risk-on tone today, despite the lackluster US market performance overnight. Sentiment remains buoyed by China’s recent monetary stimulus measures, even as doubts linger about their overall effectiveness due to the absence of significant fiscal support. Nevertheless, stocks in Hong Kong and China continue to trade higher. In Japan, Nikkei is
Fundamental Overview The US Dollar came under renewed pressure recently following the surprisingly weak US consumer confidence report on Tuesday. The labour market data in the report softened a lot and it generally leads the unemployment rate. The market responded by raising the probabilities for the Fed to cut by 50 bps in November to
The gains picked up during the handover from Asia to Europe, following comments from China’s Politburo here. That amplified Beijing’s commitment from all of the measures announced this week and also drove Chinese equities to surging gains on the day. S&P 500 futures were already up 0.3% at the time but extended that to 0.8%
The initial reaction to the gold import duty cut in the July Budget was short-lived as prices of the yellow metal surged Rs 76,000/10 gms to new record highs in just 2 months. Amid positive global cues and the festive season around the corner, analysts now see gold prices surging further to as high as
A view of the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), before a press conference in Zurich, Switzerland, March 21, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The Swiss National Bank on Thursday took a third step to loosen monetary policy this year, bringing its key interest rate down by 25 basis points to 1.0%. The trim,
The logo of Swedish clothing retailer H&M hangs over one of its stores on March 28, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Shares of H&M tumbled 7% on Thursday after the world’s second-largest listed fashion retailer posted a miss on operating profit and abandoned its earnings margin target.
The Australian Dollar gains ground as the RBA and Fed adopt different policy outlooks. The Reserve Bank of Australia is highly expected to keep interest rates unchanged in the near future. The US Federal Reserve may deliver more rate cuts by the end of this year. The Australian Dollar (AUD) retraces its recent losses against
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