Sterling fell to $1.3479 on Thursday, August 13, down 0.12% against the previous session, after touching an intraday high just above $1.3500 in the immediate aftermath of the UK second-quarter GDP release. The pair has …
UOB economist Enrico Tanuwidjaja reviews Indonesia’s 2027 State Budget, highlighting a calibrated balance between growth and fiscal discipline that matters for the Rupiah and local bonds. The budget assumes a Rupiah exc…
USD/JPY holds modest gains near the 159.60s on Tuesday, edging higher on the day. The pair has clawed back ground after a recent sharp pullback and is grinding back toward the upper end of its recent range.
Yen is under broad-based pressure again, barely 10 days after joint US-Japan intervention forced traders to retreat. That does not mean intervention has failed. It means intervention solved only one part of the problem.…
The USD/CHF pair recovers some ground on Tuesday after testing the 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) of 0.7866 along with the bottom trendline of the ‘bearish flag’, which so far contained price action amid the lack of…
USD/CAD trades little changed on Tuesday as rising long-term US Treasury yields lift the US Dollar (USD), while elevated Oil prices underpin the commodity-linked Canadian Dollar (CAD). At the time of writing, the pair t…
Rabobank’s Mauricio Une and Renan Alves note softer United States (US) inflation and cooling labor data, giving the Federal Reserve (Fed) more time to assess policy. Domestically, the central bank of Brazil's (BCB) mone…
BNY’s Geoff Yu highlights that foreign holdings of New Zealand government bonds rose to 58.9% in July 2026, while NZD/USD trades slightly above its 12‑month average. Despite robust domestic activity, Yu doubts current m…
Commerzbank’s Norman Liebke argues that European gas storage will depend on higher LNG imports over winter, as current inflows of 8 bcm per month would see storages trend toward 0% by March. He considers 10 bcm realisti…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes Brent crude has rallied above $91 as the US–Iran Strait of Hormuz standoff persists. Haddad argues crude Oil is driving the war narrative and expects price swings to st…
At its meeting on 19 March 2026, the Governing Council decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. It is determined to ensure that inflation stabilises at the 2% target in the medium term. The war in the…
Gold (XAU/USD) remains on the back foot at the start of American trading hours on Tuesday, snapping a two-day winning streak as a firmer US Dollar (USD) and rising long-term US Treasury yields weigh on the precious meta…
The United Kingdom’s (UK) ILO Unemployment Rate stayed at 4.9% in the three months to June after reporting 4.9% in the previous reading, data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed on Tuesday. The …
The British Pound weakened against the US Dollar in Asian trading on Wednesday, with GBP/USD easing toward 1.3355. The pair lost momentum as the Dollar gained ground amid renewed geopolitical uncertainty following US mi…
The Swiss Franc (CHF) trades marginally lower against the US Dollar (USD) in the early European trading session on Tuesday, with the USD/CHF pair edging up to near 0.8116. The Swiss Franc pair rises as the US Dollar bou…
The AUD/USD pair turns lower following a modest Asian session uptick on Tuesday, awaiting a break below the 0.7100 mark before extending the previous day's retracement from the highest level since June 5.
United Overseas Bank’s (UOB) Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann report that EUR/USD briefly broke above major resistance at 1.1610 to 1.1614 before fading, leaving the Euro in a near-term consolidation between 1.1560 and 1.…
The Aussie Dollar trades near two-month highs of 0.7129, supported by a weaker US Dollar, amid a scarce economic docket in the US, following last week’s softer Retail Sales data. The AUD/USD trades at 0.7106, up 0.32%.
Gold (XAU/USD) sticks to modest intraday losses below the $4,400 mark heading into the European session on Tuesday and, for now, seems to have snapped a two-day winning streak. The US Dollar (USD) builds on the overnigh…
The shared currency clings to minimal gains versus the US Dollar on Monday, edging up by some 0.08% after reaching a month-and-a-half high at 1.1614, then reversing course and falling beneath 1.1600, poised to end the s…
US President Donald Trump said that he is not interested in renewing the expiring agreement with Iran, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
USD/JPY sat near 159.50 through Monday inside a 75-pip range for a net gain of 10 pips, on the day the Dollar Index broke beneath its 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) to its weakest level since June. Every other…
GBP/USD cleared 1.3550 on Monday for the first time in three months, printed the highest level of the window just above it and handed the entire advance back within hours for a net gain under 10 pips. Sterling did none …
US Treasury yields advance on Monday during the North American session after reversing their course following the release of US Retail Sales data last week, which disappointed investors. Meanwhile, the lack of news from…
