Category: Forexlive
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ForexLive European FX news wrap: Currencies lightly changed awaiting US PCE
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High Risk Warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risks and exposure to loss. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk tolerance. You may lose some or…
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Forexlive Asia-pacific FX news wrap 28 Jun: Presidential debate was a nothing burger
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High Risk Warning: Foreign exchange trading involves a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk tolerance. You may lose some or all…
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ForexLive European FX news wrap: USD/JPY tentative above 160 mark
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High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading involves a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk tolerance. You may lose some or all…
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ForexLive European FX news wrap: USD/JPY trades up to highest since 1990
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Titles: Markets: The Australian dollar advances, and the New Zealand dollar lags during the day European stocks fall; S&P 500 futures fell 0.1% US 10-year bond yields rose 4.9 basis points to 4.286%. Gold fell 0.3 percent to $2,310.84 West Texas Intermediate crude rose 0.7% to $81.38. Bitcoin fell 0.9%…
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ForexLive European FX news wrap: Yen edgy to start the week
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Titles: Markets: Euro advances, US dollar lags during the day European stocks rise; S&P 500 futures rise 0.1% US 10-year bond yields rose 0.8 basis points to 4.265%. Gold rose 0.2% to $2,325.58 West Texas Intermediate crude rose 0.3% to $80.97 Bitcoin fell 4.9% to $61,023 It’s been a quiet…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 21 Jun: The USD moves higher helped better flash S&P
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The week is coming to an end, as the US dollar is the strongest among the major currencies. The Japanese yen is the weakest. The dollar’s gains today were supported by stronger-than-expected Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data, which saw the services index rise to 55.1 versus 53.7 expected, and manufacturing…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap: CPI gives and Powell takes
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Markets: Gold rose $3 to $2,319 The yield on US 10-year bonds fell by 7 basis points to 4.33%. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 46 cents to $82.39 The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.8% to a record high The Australian dollar is advancing, and the dollar is lagging…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 7 Jun”: US adds 272K new jobs but unemployment rate rises
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The US jobs report came out stronger, but again there were some ambiguous/less strong elements. Nonfarm Payrolls rose 272K versus estimates of 185K. Private salaries increased by 229,000 compared to 170,000 according to estimates Average hourly earnings increased by 0.4% versus 0.3% expected Average year-over-year earnings increased by 4.1% versus…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 31 May: US PCE doesn’t scare. Yields lower. US down and up
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The big event this week was the core personal consumption expenditures data in the US. The Core Personal Consumption Expenditures Index is the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation. Expectations were for an increase of 0.3%. The actual increase was approximated to 0.2% for the basic measurement. In fact, the unrounded…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 29 May: The USD moves higher with higher yields.
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The US dollar rose supported by higher yields. For the third coupon auction this week, demand was less than ideal. Yesterday was the 2 and 5 year auction. Today was a 7 year note. For the trading week, the 10-year yield did not come close to 15 basis points while…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 28 May: USD rebounds helped by rising yields &confidence
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US consumer confidence came in much better than expected in the US session. The index moved to 102.00 versus estimates of 95.9 details: The current situation index is 143.1 compared to 142.9 previously Expectations Index 74.6 compared to the previous 66.4 Hard-to-find jobs 13.5 vs. 15.5 previously 16.9% of consumers…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 24 May; USD moves higher. Nasdaq &S&P gain for 5th week
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As the week comes to a close, the Canadian dollar ends the day as the strongest among the major currencies. The Swiss franc is the weakest. The US dollar was mostly lower with modest gains against the Japanese yen and Swiss franc. The Canadian dollar rose despite lower-than-expected retail sales…
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ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: Gold hit a record high, silver and copper surged also
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Speakers at the Fed on Monday included Bostic, Barr, Waller and Jefferson Iranian official media confirmed that there were no survivors from the helicopter crash The Saudi Crown Prince postpones his visit to Japan ICYMI – China’s benchmark lending rates remained steady: 1-year loan coverage ratio at 3.45% and 5-year…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 17 May.The price of the DXY index closes below its 100W MA
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The British pound ended the US session as the strongest of the major currencies today. The Swiss franc is the weakest. The US dollar ended the day mixed with gains against the Japanese yen and Swiss franc and losses against the British pound, Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar. The…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 15 May: Green grass ahead as CPI/spending is tame
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US CPI, retail sales and New York manufacturing data combined with the CPI falling 0.3%, retail sales showed no gains during the month and New York manufacturing had a weaker day. All of this gave the green light to risky assets as yields fell, stocks rose and the US dollar…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap: PPI offers up a headfake
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US Producer Price Index for April +2.2% y/y vs. +2.2% expected Powell: The labor market is as tight as it was before the pandemic in 2019 US credit card balances rose 13.1% year over year in the first quarter Winch from the European Central Bank: Higher interest rates for a…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 13 May: Oh No Roaring Kitty returns and dominates chatter
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As the New York session came to a close to start the new trading week, the markets were highlighted by the first tweets in 3 years from meme king Roaring Kitty. His tweets sent Gamestop shares soaring 74.40% to $30.45 (from $17.46 at Friday’s close). AMC shares also rose sharply…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 10 May: Markets react to lower sentiment/higher inflation
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The US session was further influenced by preliminary consumer confidence data released by the University of Michigan which showed a sharp drop in the confidence index to 67.4 from 76.0. Expectations also fell sharply to 66.5 from 75.0, and current conditions also fell to 68.8 from 79.0. The data was…
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ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: USD higher across the major FX board
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High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading involves a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk tolerance. You may lose some or all…
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Forexlive Americas FX news wrap 7 May: The USD is the strongest of the major currencies.
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The American session was devoid of any American data today. The only economic report was the Ivey PMI from Canada, which came in stronger than expected. Despite the gains, the Canadian dollar weakened and was one of the weakest major currencies. Today the US dollar was the strongest among the…