Market Recap of clients are net long. of clients are net short. Change in Longs Shorts OI Daily 0% -5% -2% Weekly 39% -21% 5% Wall Street managed to stabilise overnight from its recent sell-off, despite another climb in Treasury yields and a pull-ahead in the US dollar (+0.4%). The US 10-year yields were up
Share: USD/JPY has broken above the 149 level. Economists at MUFG Bank analyze Yen’s outlook. Opposition to currency weakness remains firm We continue to see a high chance of intervention but only after a break above the 150 level when there is a higher chance of stops fuelling volatility and ‘disorderly’ price action
Share: USD/JPY experiences upward support due to the US economic data. Momentum indicators suggest a predominant bullish sentiment in the market. The psychological level at 148.00 could emerge as a key support aligned with the 14-day EMA. USD/JPY hovers slightly below the high since November, trading around 149.10 psychological level during the Asian
© Reuters. U.S. Dollar banknote is seen in this illustration taken July 17, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photo By Harry Robertson and Tom Westbrook LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar rose to a new 10-month peak on Tuesday as U.S. bond yields hit their highest level since October 2007, while the Japanese yen recovered from an early
Major US indices attempted to bounce off their respective near-term support last Friday, but gains failed to sustain into the latter half of the session as selling pressures dominate. This came as the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) recent hawkish hold remains the overarching theme for the risk environment, which was further followed up by hawkish Fed
Fed’s Collins FOMC member Susan Collins is speaking and says: “Optimistic” inflation can fall with only a “modest” rise in unemployment, sees a “widened” pathway to that outcome. Current policymaking requires “considerable” patience to get the right signal from data. Despite “encouraging” recent data, inflation remains too high. Key elements of inflation, such as core
Share: Further interest rate increases will likely be appropriate, with inflation still being too high, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said on Friday, per Reuters. Key quotes “Fed policy will need to be held at a restrictive level for some time to return inflation to 2% ‘in a timely way.” “Continued risk of a
A second Fed governor is speaking. FOMC member Bowman is on the wires saying: Further interest rate increases likely appropriate with inflation “still too high.” Fed policy will need to be held at a restrictive level “for some time” to return inflation to 2% “in a timely way.” Continued risk of further increase in energy
© Reuters. The dollar reached a 6.5-month peak on Thursday, September 21, 2023, after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled a continuation of its restrictive policy, even as it held rates steady. This comes as the Swiss franc fell following the Swiss National Bank’s decision to maintain unchanged rates, marking the first time it has not
Share: Gold price hit a two-week high at $1937.35 before retreating to $1931.77, down 0.06%. US 10-year Treasury bond yield reaches a 16-year high at 4.367%, weighing on gold. Investors keenly await the Federal Reserve’s ‘dot plots’ and updated economic projections for rate hike clues. Gold price retreats after hitting a two-week high
