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MUFG’s Lee Hardman reports the Australian Dollar (AUD) has been the worst performing G10 currency overnight despite being the best performer year-to-date. Renewed risk-off sentiment tied to an AI-rela…
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) tumbled to a one-month low on Sunday, as persistent global geopolitical tensions continued to erode investor confidence.
Board games are enjoying a resurgence as social entertainment and strategic art converge. The global market continues to expand, driven by new hybrids, cafés, and an appetite for offline connection. I…
Silver (XAG/USD) trades around $57.55 on Tuesday at the time of writing, down 1.45% on the day, as investors remain cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's (Fed) monetary policy decision. A rebound in…
The Indian Rupee (INR) extends its winning streak against the US Dollar (USD) for the third trading day on Tuesday. The USD/INR pair falls to near 95.65 as a further decline in oil prices has strength…
According to a Gulf source, Oman presented a proposal for a joint regional mechanism to Iran to manage the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for almost 20% of the global energy supply, with voluntary …
The Euro (EUR) consolidated gains, just below three-week highs against the British Pound (GBP) on Tuesday, trading sideways at the mid-range of the 0.8550s at the time of writing. The risk-off mood is…
The Japanese Yen (JPY) trades flat against the US Dollar (USD) at around 163.75 during the Asian trading session on Tuesday. The USD/JPY pair struggles for direction as investors have sidelined ahead …
EUR/JPY holds ground after two days of losses, trading around 186.20 during the Asian hours on Tuesday. The currency cross is holding a bullish near-term bias as it trades above both the nine-period a…
AUD/USD inches higher after recovering its daily losses, trading around 0.6990 during the Asian hours on Tuesday. Traders are keeping a close watch on scheduled remarks from Reserve Bank of Australia …
British Pound Sterling trades beneath 1.3300 against the Dollar on Monday, roughly 0.3% lower on the day and back at ground it last held in the opening days of July. It gets there at the end of the st…
In the Asian trading session on Tuesday, Japan Finance Minister (FM) Satsuki Katayama highlighted the need to communicate to financial and Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) markets regarding the admini…
GBP/USD edges lower after opening at a bullish gap, remaining within positive territory and trading around 1.3290 during the Asian hours on Tuesday. The currency pair is under pressure as the US Dolla…
WTI Crude Oil trades just above $81.00 on Monday, down close to 9% from Friday's close near $89.00, having gapped more than $5.00 lower at the open and spent the session extending rather than repairin…
Speaking at the Anika Foundation Fundraising Lunch in Sydney on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Michele Bullock said that the “key question is whether tightening already delivered is…
The USD/CAD pair enters a bullish consolidation phase near a two-week high, touched during the Asian session on Tuesday, and currently trades around 1.4120. The fundamental backdrop supports prospects…
The Australian Dollar trades just beneath 0.7000 on Monday, up around 0.1%, having covered less than 30 pips between its session high and its session low. For the better part of a fortnight the market…
July 27, 2026, 9:40 PM EDT. The U.S. dollar touched a one-month peak as investors weighed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve rate hike, even as softer inflation worries followed lower oil prices. The…
NZD/USD trades near the 0.5790 area on Monday, struggling to extend its recovery despite modest weakness in the US Dollar (USD). The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) receives some support from the sharp decli…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes that USD/SGD is consolidating around 1.2900 after pulling back from near 1.3000, as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unexpectedly tightened …
Jay Clayton, often in circuitous fashion, avoided saying Joe Biden won 2020 race against Donald Trump during his US Senate confirmation hearing.
The Japanese Yen trades a little firmer on Monday, with USD/JPY down 0.05% and sitting short of 164.00 after last week's high stalled a hundredth of a Yen beneath the figure. Markets have spent a fort…
On Monday, US President Donald Trump grabbed the headlines as investors awaited monetary policy meetings by three of the eight major central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and…
MUFG’s Lloyd Chan notes that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) delivered a second consecutive tightening by slightly increasing the Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER…