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NEW DELHI: Gold futures prices in the domestic market continued to slide in the morning trade for another day on Monday as a stronger US dollar made bullion expensive for other currency holders, despite expectations of a large Covid-19 relief package in the United States. US President-elect Joe Biden said on Friday that he wants

Dollar opens the week generally higher, as supported by comments from former Fed chair Janet Yellen. Though, at this point, Yen mildly stronger while Swiss Franc is also firm. The triple argues that there is some underlying cautiousness in investor sentiments, despite solid Q4 China data. That’s also reflected in the general weakness in commodity

What the turn lower in UK cases means The UK reported 38,598 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, which is the lowest since December 27 and the clearest sign yet that the UK has gotten the upper hand on the worrisome variant that caused the latest round of lockdowns. It’s a sign that either the variant

BOC is widely expected to leave its overnight rate at the effective lower bound of 0.25% in January. The size of asset purchases will also stay unchanged at CAD4B/week. Over the past month, there has been market speculations about the possibility of a micro rate cut since November. While such a move is unlikely at

As suggested in the CFTC Commitments of Traders report in the week ended January 12, NET SHORT of USD Index futures fell -1 045 contracts to 14 952. Speculative long positions dropped -941 contracts, and short positions decreased -1 986 contracts. USD rebounded as talks about Fed’s balance sheet tapering rekindled. However, we do not

CFTC commitments of traders: EUR longs move back up to December highs Coming Up! Title text for next article LON SDNY+11 NY -5 TYO +9 GMT Weekly forex futures positioning data from the CFTC EUR long 156K vs 143K long last week. Long increased by 13K GBP long 13K vs 4K long last week. Longs

Media reports on moves from the European Union to lay out plans to limit its reliance on the USD Citing a draft policy paper from the European Commission that will be adopted on January 19. The paper points to the EU’s vulnerability to US sanctions and to financial risks. Measures proposed include tighter controls on

Gold prices gained Rs 286 to Rs 48,690 per 10 gram in the national capital on Friday following recovery in international price of the precious metal and rupee depreciation, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yellow metal had closed at Rs 48,404 per 10 gram. Silver prices also jumped Rs 558 to

Sterling ended the week as the best performing one. But the late selloff, and rejection by resistance against Dollar and Yen, suggest that the latter too were in the driving seat. Weakness was apparently see in Euro, New Zealand Dollar, and to a lesser extent Australian. Dollar could be further building up the case for

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By Swansy Afonso, Haslinda Amin and Rishaad Salamat Gold demand in the world’s second-biggest user will rebound this year after collapsing in 2020 as the rollout of vaccines pushes life back closer to normal, according to the World Gold Council. Some of the weddings and festive buying that had been postponed because of the pandemic

Dollar at the best levels of the day The US dollar has climbed to the best levels of the day as broader selling seeps into equities. The commodity currencies are particularly hard hit with AUD/USD down 92 pips to 0.7687. The low of the week was 0.7666. The bond market will act like an automatic

Market regulator Sebi has relaxed the computation of gross exposure norms for mutual funds which trade on exchange traded commodity derivatives (ETCDs) contracts. The regulator clarified that hedged or offsetting positions taken during the course of trade will not be considered while computing the gross exposure of ETCDs for the funds. For eg, if a

Yen and Swiss Franc are trading stronger together with Dollar today, as stock markets are pulling back slightly. On the other hand, New Zealand Dollar is leading other commodity currencies lower. US President-elect Joe Biden’s new spending package was generally ignored by investors. Instead, worse than expected US data is weighing sentiments down slightly. For

Forex news for Asia trading for Friday 15 January 2021 The main points of incoming US President Biden’s coronavirus economic rescue plan were reported a couple of hours ahead of his scheduled speech. The response of markets was underwhelming with not a lot of movement. Biden’s speech later was a little more impactful, but not

The need for effective hedges and the low-rate environment will keep investment demand for gold well supported this year, and the precious metal could mimic the strong growth seen in 2010 just after the global financial crisis, an outlook on the industry published by World Gold Council (WGC) said. The COVID-19 pandemic raised uncertainty by

Euro’s broad based decline continues today, dragging down the Swiss Franc, and to a lesser extent Sterling too. Italy bench yield jumps sharply on increasing risk of fresh elections in the summer. On the other hand, commodity currencies continue to be strong, as supported by overall solid risk sentiments. Global equities are clearly just taking