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Silver (XAG/USD) price erases Wednesday's gains and forms a bearish head-and-shoulders chart pattern on Thursday after the white metal tanks and breaks a support trendline around $64.00-$64.15, exacer…
The British Pound enters 2026 with cautious upside against the US Dollar, but conviction remains limited. Following the Federal Reserve’s December 2025 rate cut to 3.50–3.75%, consensus among major in…
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Oil rallies nearly 5% on Thursday, climbing to its highest level since May 21 as escalating tensions in the Middle East raise fears of further disruption to already tight…
The US Dollar Index (DXY) reclaimed the 99.00 barrier and then some, rebounding firmly as the hot Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 5.4% over the year to August, hardening expectations for a Fed rate hi…
Iranian armed forces launched attacks on U.S. military infrastructure in Gulf states on Thursday following U.S. strikes on Iran's southern coastal and eastern provinces, further straining a three-week…
The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) fails to clear a confluence of key Simple Moving Averages (SMAs) and dives below 0.5800 on Thursday, printing a near two-month low of 0.5797. At the time of writing, NZD/U…
Commerzbank notes USD/MYR has risen to 4.07, marking a fourth consecutive session of Ringgit weakness, weighed by foreign portfolio outflows from Malaysian equities. However, they stress that resilien…
According to Reuters sources, the European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to further tighten monetary policy in the months ahead and could raise rates in October.
Gold price retraces by about 0.90% on Thursday as traders price in a hawkish Federal Reserve (Fed) following the release of the US Producer Price Index (PPI) for August. The risk-off sentiment in the …
Nordea analysts Jan von Gerich and Tuuli Koivu note that the European Central Bank (ECB) delivered a 25bp rate hike and signalled a bias toward further tightening as its projections show Eurozone infl…
USD/JPY advances to around 154.15 on Thursday at the time of writing, up 0.40% on the day. The pair benefits from a rebound in the US Dollar (USD), supported by US data showing accelerating producer p…
The Australian Dollar eased against the US Dollar on Thursday, slipping back below the 0.7200 mark after touching its highest level since mid-May earlier in the week. AUD/USD trades in the 0.7160 area…
TD Securities economists Eli Nir and Oscar Munoz raise their August core PCE forecast after stronger PCE-relevant components in the August PPI report. They now expect core PCE at 0.24% m/m and 3.3% y/…
Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret note USD/CAD is holding a tight sideways range near 1.38 with no domestic data, leaving the Canadian Dollar (CAD) driven by external factors and t…
Gold (XAU/USD) trades with a downside bias on Thursday as a steady US Dollar (USD), rising US Treasury yields and Federal Reserve (Fed) rate-hike expectations weigh on the precious metal, while trader…
In all the turmoil, investors now expect the European Central Bank to hike rates more than once this year at a time when the Federal Reserve is cutting. Does that really make sense? It's not unprecede…
EUR/GBP trades with a modest positive bias on Thursday but stays within the narrow range that has been in place for more than a week.
UOB’s Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann keep a range-trading view on USD/CHF around 0.8100, after the pair held between 0.8065 and 0.8109 and closed near 0.8099. They now expect a slightly narrower 0.806…
AUD/JPY extends its losing streak for the fourth consecutive day, trading around 110.70 during European hours on Thursday. The currency cross depreciates as the Australian Dollar (AUD) faces challenge…
GBP/USD remains stronger for the fourth successive day, trading around 1.3550 during the European hours on Thursday. The pair is maintaining a modest bullish bias as it holds above both the nine- and …
The Euro (EUR) trades in a tight range at around 1.1640 against the US Dollar (USD) during the European trading session on Thursday. The major currency pair consolidates as investors await the Europea…
The Pound Euro (GBP/EUR) exchange rate made modest gains on Tuesday, with higher oil prices and fresh Eurozone inflation data prompting markets to reassess the outlook for monetary policy.
ING’s Frantisek Taborsky expects the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (CBRT) to keep its policy rate at 37% for now, after normalising liquidity and lowering the effective funding rate. Weaker …
The Swiss Franc (CHF) has given back previous daily gains against the US Dollar (USD) in a calm trading session on Thursday, as the USD/CHF pair returned above 0.8100, although it remains halfway thro…