Asian equities trade mixed on Wednesday. Oil prices and Treasury yields dropped as crude flows through the Middle East improved, adding to risk appetite. Furthermore, a senior Iranian official said that Tehran can reope…
The USD/JPY pair gathers strength to around 157.60 during the early Asian trading hours on Wednesday. The Japanese Yen (JPY) extends the decline due to a lack of explicitly hawkish guidance from the Bank of Japan (BoJ) …
The Indian Rupee (INR) trades lower against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday after rising in the past few trading days.
The US Dollar reflects strength on Wednesday amid firm expectations that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will deliver more interest rate hikes this year.
The preliminary reading of Australia's S&P Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) eased to 49.3 in September versus 52.0 prior, the latest data published by S&P Global showed on Wednesday.
Cheaper Crude Oil should help the Yen, since Japan buys almost all of its Crude Oil abroad, and on Tuesday it helped only briefly. USD/JPY dropped close to 157.00 after reports that Iran has offered to reopen the Strait…
The USD/CAD pair attracts buyers for the third straight day and trades around the 1.4070-1.4075 area during the Asian session on Wednesday, near its highest level since July 29, touched the previous day. Moreover, the f…
OCBC strategists Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong note that the Renminbi (RMB) has extended gains, with USD/CNY breaking below 6.70 as the People's Bank of China (PBoC) strengthened the fix for nine straight sessions …
Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and fiance of Taylor Swift, sparked jokes and hopes this week when he announced his investment in the embattled amusement park company Six Flags Entertainment.
About 80% of the Euro's August rally is gone. EUR/USD climbed from near 1.1350 at the end of July to just above 1.1700 in the second half of August, and on Tuesday it dipped under 1.1450 to its lowest since late July be…
Four weeks of selling have taken NZD/USD from just under 0.6000 to its lowest since early July. On Tuesday the pair dipped under 0.5700, then climbed back into the 0.5700 to 0.5800 range it has traded in since September…
The Aussie Dollar is poised to end Tuesday’s session unchanged versus the Greenback amid renewed hopes for an end of the Middle East conflict, while Federal Reserve officials struck a hawkish tone in their speeches. The…
The Dollar Index trades near 100.70, its highest level since late July. It has climbed through five straight sessions of falling Crude Oil, the opposite of how the war has moved it for most of this year. The Fed is the …
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Oil extends its decline on Tuesday as traders assess fresh Middle East developments, keeping energy prices under pressure for a fifth straight day. At the time of writing, WTI trades around…
1.3400 has capped GBP/USD in every session since the Fed raised rates on September 16. The pair went through that level on the day of the decision and has failed to get back above it four times since. On Tuesday it fell…
Japan’s Yen Battle Takes Another Unexpected TurnThe BoJ just hiked rates, yet the yen moved lower. The disconnect highlights a bigger problem: a rate hike means little if markets see the path ahead as too cautious. With…
Richmond Federal Reserve (Fed) President Thomas Barkin said on Tuesday that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to raise interest rates last Wednesday because inflation risks outweighed those to maximum emp…
United Overseas Bank (UOB) strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann expect USD/CNH to edge lower intraday but stay confined to a narrow 6.6890–6.6960 range, with a clear break below 6.6890 seen as unlikely. Over one t…
US President Donald Trump is figuring out a solution to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Furthermore, he added that Russian President Vladimir Putin is …
Deutsche Bank Research’s UK economists Sanjay Raja and Maui Brennan have shifted their BoE base case from no hikes to two 25bp moves, in November and February. They argue Bank Rate is already restrictive, inflation is l…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad highlights that GBP/USD remains under 1.3400 as United Kingdom (UK) fiscal policy turns more restrictive. Rising borrowing has eroded fiscal headroom, pressuring Chancellor J…
ING’s Francesco Pesole notes the Dollar started the week strongly despite lower Oil prices and firmer global equities, helped by hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve officials Austan Goolsbee and Alberto Musalem that su…
OCBC strategists Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong argue that intervention risks and a more hawkish Bank of Japan (BoJ) are key for the Japanese Yen (JPY). They see faster BoJ policy tightening gradually supporting JPY…
AUD/USD trims part of its earlier losses on Tuesday as traders assess fresh diplomatic signals surrounding the war between the United States (US) and Iran, weighing on the US Dollar (USD). Meanwhile, a hawkish Reserve B…
