Share: GBP/JPY looking down a steep hill as the pair loses ground near 183.00. Data-packed economic calendar for the UK in the bottom half of next week. GBP struggles to find a floor on mixed UK data souring investor appetite. The GBP/JPY has struggled to develop meaningful momentum in recent weeks, and the
Challenger is reporting that they see the labor market starting to cool as the holiday season kicks off. They add: Employers are hiring at a slower clip Retailers have announced 55,755 job cuts through August US retailers will add 410K seasonal positions, which represents the lowest number of jobs added in the 1st quarter since
Share: USD/NOK saw green on Friday, rising 0.50% above 10.788. Investors expect the NB to deliver a 25 basis point hike to 4.25% next week. The Fed decision will likely be a pause next Wednesday. On the last day of the week, the USD/NOK gained additional traction, rising to multi-month highs above 10.788. On the NOK’s
Baker Hughes US oil rig count There’s about a 12 month lag from US drilling to production. I suspect we’ve bottomed here but it’s tough to say how quickly it will rebound. Yes, oil is at $90 but OPEC+ has 4 million barrels per day in spare production and oil company shareholders are trying to
Share: S&P 500 closes down at 4450.32, losing 1.22%, as Technology, Consumer Discretionary, and Energy sectors led the decline. Upbeat US economic data, including a rise in the Empire State Manufacturing Index, fuels optimism that the Fed may achieve a soft landing. US 10-year Treasury yields climb to 4.334%, adding to market jitters,
The price action in the Nasdaq is worrisome. TSLA started the week off with a 10% rally and hasn’t given any of it back yet the Nasdaq is now lower on the week and in danger of closing at the lows of the week. Maybe I’m reading too much into what’s largely been a lackluster
Share: USD/JPY advances to fresh multi-month highs near 147.85 US Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment came in lower than expected. The US DXY index reached its highest point since March 9 at 105.43 and then settled at 105.23. All eyes are now on the Fed’s decision next week. Ahead of the weekend, the USD/JPY pair resumes its
Risk currencies were strutting their stuff like they just won a Super Bowl thanks to positive economic updates from the U.S. and from China pulling out fresh ways to stimulate their economy. We guess that traders are all in for that “soft landing” touchdown! Unfortunately for European currencies, traders were unloading as data from the
Not just China and the US, but Europe too The great scramble for the global car market is underway and it looks like China will win. Last year China unleashed a carefully planned ramp up in EV production from the ground up, including an entirely domestic battery industry that also holds 70% of global market
EUR/USD: ECB Triggers Euro Collapse ● The past week was marked by two significant events. The first was the release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data in the United States on September 13. The second was the meeting of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Governing Council on September 14. Regarding the first event, the annual
