© Reuters Investing.com – The U.S. dollar traded largely unchanged in early European hours Wednesday, adopting something of a holding pattern ahead of the release of key inflation data as well as the minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting. At 03:20 ET (07:20 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Four thousand U.S. dollars are counted out by a banker counting currency at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar was largely rangebound on Wednesday, though remained weighed down by dovish Federal Reserve comments, as traders awaited the central
It’s been quite a while since geopolitics, or in this case an outright war, in the Middle East stole the spotlight in markets. But that is the case today as the world is honed in on the Hamas attacks on Israel on Saturday. That is seeing markets adopt a more risk-off approach today with the
Mon: EZ Sentix Index (Oct) Tue: Nil Wed: EIA STEO, US PPI (Sep). FOMC Minutes Thu: ECB Minutes, OPEC MOMR, IEA OMR, UK GDP (Aug), US CPI (Sep) Fri: Chinese Inflation (Sep), Chinese Trade Balance (Sep), EZ Industrial Production (Aug), US University of Michigan Prelim Note: Previews are listed in day order FOMC Minutes (Wed):
Article by IG Senior Market Analyst Axel Rudolph FTSE 100, S&P 500, Russell 2000 Analysis and Charts FTSE 100 tries to recover from one-month low The FTSE 100 is seen heading back up towards its 55-day simple moving average (SMA) at 7,521 while awaiting key US employment data.If overcome, another attempt at reaching the
© Reuters Investing.com – The U.S. dollar traded higher Friday, on course for another positive week, ahead of the release of the monthly U.S. nonfarm payrolls which could influence Federal Reserve thinking. At 03:40 ET (07:40 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.2% higher at
SILVER PRICE OUTLOOK: Silver prices fall modestly despite U.S. dollar softness. Traders remain cautious ahead of key U.S. labor market data. The September NFP report, due out on Friday, will be key for financial markets. Most Read: US Jobs Report Preview – What’s in Store for Nasdaq 100, USD, Yields, and Gold? Silver prices fell
Share: EUR/GBP oscillates around the 0.8647-0.8661 region in a narrow trading band on Thursday. Eurozone Retail Sales came in at -2.1% YoY in August vs.-1%, worse than expectation. UK’s S&P Global/CIPS Composite PMI and Services PMI for September came in above the market consensus. Traders will monitor the German Trade Balance for August
Last week’s decline in gold prices accelerated after the break of the current downtrend channel support. The last time Gold traded at such a low was six months ago, when the US regional banking crisis triggered an influx of buyers, pushing prices away from support around $1809. The biggest weekly loss in the last two
The announcement is coming at 0100 GMT, which is 2100 US Eastern time. The RBNZ is widely expected to leave its cash rate target on hold, but: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is likely to want to see Q3 inflation data, which will be released on 16 October, and labour market data on the
