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Oil Rises In Price Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions In The Middle East. Bitcoin Has Reached The $70,000 Mark

Oil Rises In Price Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions In The Middle East. Bitcoin Has Reached The $70,000 Mark

On Friday, the Dow Jones (US30) Index gained 1.64% (for the week +0.43%), while the S&P 500 (US500) Index gained 1.11% (for the week -1.54%). The NASDAQ Technology Index (US100) closed positive at 1.03% (for the week -3.16%). Market sentiment was fueled by new data showing weakening inflation, which heightened expectations of a potential interest rate cut in September. The PCE, the Federal Reserve’s preferred […]
Asia-Pacific Markets Rebound As Inflation Eases And Yen Strengthens

Asia-Pacific Markets Rebound As Inflation Eases And Yen Strengthens

Asia-Pacific markets rebounded on Friday after Thursday’s sell-off. Tokyo’s July inflation data showed a slight slowdown, and the yen strengthened against the dollar. The Nikkei 225 was nearly flat and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.92%. The Hang Seng Index and mainland China’s CSI 300 were nearly flat. Singapore’s monetary policy remained steady. In the […]
USD/JPY Forecast: US Dollar Continues To Look For Momentum Against The Yen

USD/JPY Forecast: US Dollar Continues To Look For Momentum Against The Yen

The first thing that I notice is that we are stabilizing. This is exactly what we needed to see. And while Friday was a somewhat neutral candlestick, what I’m really paying close attention to is the way we behaved on Thursday. We broke down to the 200-day EMA and then shot straight up in the […]
US Fed Meeting This Week: What To Expect On Interest Rate Cuts As Inflation Cools

US Fed Meeting This Week: What To Expect On Interest Rate Cuts As Inflation Cools

 Image source: Pixabay   Federal Reserve expected to hold rates steady at 5.25-5.5% during this week’s meeting. Easing inflation and a softening labor market provide scope for future interest rate cuts. Analysts anticipate potential rate reductions by September, with further cuts likely in November and December. As the Federal Reserve convenes for its two-day Federal Open […]
US Ethereum spot ETFs off to rough start: $1.5B left Grayscale fund, BlackRock led first-week inflows

US Ethereum spot ETFs off to rough start: $1.5B left Grayscale fund, BlackRock led first-week inflows

Key Takeaways Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust has experienced $1.5 billion in net outflows since it was converted into an ETF. BlackRock’s Ethereum Trust has attracted $442 million, leading the net inflows among new US Ethereum ETFs. Newly launched US spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were off to a rough start as investors pulled approximately $1.5 billion […]
Sensex Today Hits Record High; Nifty Above 24,900

Sensex Today Hits Record High; Nifty Above 24,900

Asian shares snapped three days of losses to rise on Monday, before a week of key central bank decisions in Japan, the US, and the UK, as well as some big tech earnings releases.Stocks rose in Australia, Japan, and South Korea while Hong Kong futures edged higher.US stocks closed a volatile week with a flash […]
EUR/USD Hovers Near 1.0850 With Focus On Eurozone Inflation And Fed Policy

EUR/USD Hovers Near 1.0850 With Focus On Eurozone Inflation And Fed Policy

EUR/USD trades back and forth near 1.0850 ahead of crucial Eurozone/US events. The ECB may cut interest rates two more times this year. The Fed is expected to openly endorse rate cuts in September. EUR/USD trades in a tight range near 1.0850 in Monday’s European session. The major currency pair struggles for direction as investors have […]
The Commodities Feed: Speculators Head For The Exit

The Commodities Feed: Speculators Head For The Exit

The complex came under pressure last week as speculators headed for the exit. The oil market will be keeping a close eye on the OPEC+ meeting later this week in case there are any signals of a change in output policy following the more recent price weakness. depositphotosEnergy – Speculators dump oilOil prices traded lower for […]
Mapped: How Many Hours Europeans Work Each Week

Mapped: How Many Hours Europeans Work Each Week

There’s an old joke: are you working hard, or hardly working? “Hard work” is difficult to measure, but it is possible to know who’s working the longest.  This heatmap visualizes the average hours Europeans work each week by country, as sourced from Eurostat’s Labor Force Survey (2023). The dataset covers employed persons aged 20–64 in a “main occupation” and […]
Investors Hoping For A Better Week – Monday, July 29

Investors Hoping For A Better Week – Monday, July 29

Image Source: Pixabay  Global markets will try their best to get into a better mood after contending with a tough wave of risk off flow in the previous week. Key standouts on Monday’s calendar come from UK consumer credit, mortgage approvals, and CBI trades, along with Dallas Fed manufacturing.Video Length: 00:00:47More By This Author:Will Financial Markets […]