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USD/CHF extends its gains for the second successive day, trading around 0.8320 during European hours on Tuesday. The pair is moving higher as the US Dollar (USD) gains momentum, largely driven by a su…
USD/IDR remains steady after registering minor gains in the previous day, trading around 17,930 during the European hours on Tuesday. However, the pair may further appreciate as the US Dollar (USD) ga…
The Indian Rupee (INR) trades lower against the US Dollar (USD) on Tuesday due to the continuous surge in global bond yields. The USD/INR pair rises to near 96.43, the highest level seen in over two m…
The US Dollar (USD) stays resilient against its peers early Tuesday, with the USD Index staying in positive territory after posting modest gains on Monday. Later in the session, Eurostat will publish …
Alongside a direct – albeit so far relatively contained – build-up of fiscal premium, the euro continues to suffer from an unwinding of ECB rate hike expectations due to French bond turbulence. Risks …
The comments from European Central Bank (ECB) official and Finnish Central Bank Governor Olli Rehn released during the European trading session on Tuesday signal economic warnings due to higher long-t…
Francesco Pesole at ING highlights that the Euro (EUR) is under pressure from French bond market turbulence, which is adding a fiscal risk premium and driving a repricing lower in European Central Ban…
Gold (XAU/USD) stages a modest recovery from the $4,100 neighborhood, or a two-month low touched earlier this Tuesday, though the upside potential seems limited. The US Dollar (USD) pauses for a breat…
AUD/USD remains steady after two days of gains, trading around 0.6970 during Asian hours on Tuesday. The currency pair is hovering in a tight range as the Australian Dollar (AUD) finds support despite…
West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US crude oil benchmark, is trading around $88.60 during the early Asian trading hours on Tuesday. WTI faces some selling pressure as rising Middle East crude exports…
Silver price (XAG/USD) pares its recent gains from the previous day, trading around $60.70 per troy ounce during Asian hours on Tuesday. Silver remains locked near two-month lows as a resilient US Dol…
USD/JPY moves little after posting minor gains in the previous day, trading around 157.90 during Asian hours on Tuesday. The currency pair has steadied into a tight trading range following recent deve…
The NZD/USD pair seesaws between tepid gains and minor losses during the Asian session on Tuesday, trading around the 0.5600 mark, just above its lowest level since November 2025, touched the previous…
The GBP/USD pair extends its consolidative move during the Asian session on Tuesday, trading above the 1.3200 mark and within a familiar range held over the past two weeks or so.
New Zealand's firms are more upbeat and raising fewer prices, and the second half of that matters more for the Kiwi. NZD/USD trades just above 0.5600 after a fresh low beneath it, back near its Novemb…
Reports that Spain's government was preparing an early election pushed EUR/USD to its lowest since May 2025, and hedge-fund selling in Asia set off option barriers that deepened the fall, traders said…
US Treasury yields edged up at the beginning of the week, with the 30- and 10-year yields reaching multi-year highs as inflation expectations rose, as shown in a US Institute for Supply Management (IS…
The odds of an October Fed hike have fallen from about two in three in late September to roughly one in five, and GBP/USD hasn't left the range it has traded in since September 24. Monday's range is e…
The Mexican Peso (MXN) posted back-to-back bullish days as USD/MXN edges lower by about 0.34% on Monday amid softer-than-expected US data and a mediocre Nonfarm Payrolls report last Friday. The exotic…
EUR/CHF holds modest losses on Monday as growing fiscal concerns in France weigh on the Euro (EUR). However, the cross has reversed most of its intraday decline as buying interest in the Swiss Franc (…
Silver (XAG/USD) price drifts higher by over 1.14% on Monday, even as US Treasury yields rise and the Greenback extends its gains by 0.26%, as per the US Dollar Index (DXY). XAG/USD trades at $61.13, …
France's government owes close to 120% of what its economy produces in a year. The gap between what France and Germany pay to borrow for 10 years reached about 1.5 percentage points on Friday, the wid…
AUD/USD advances on Monday, trading around 0.6970 at the time of writing, up 0.34% on the day. The pair manages to gain ground despite persistent strength in the US Dollar (USD), which remains support…