Japanese trade balance
Risk Aversion Subsiding for Second Straight Day
July 21, 2021
U.S. share prices have risen somewhat more than 0.5% this Wednesday after Yesterday’s strong resurgence. European stock markets have recorded even sharper gains of 1.7% in the U.K., 1.9% in France, 1.4% in Germany and 2.7% in Spain. Second-quarter corporate earnings reports are dominating financial market sentiment. The dollar is currently trading around today’s lows […] More
Dollar Close to a Two-Month Low
April 19, 2021
The dollar kicked off this third week of April with a 0.5% decline on a weighted basis overnight. The U.S. currency lost 0.7% against the Swiss franc, 0.6% versus the yen, Australian and New Zealand dollars, 0.5% relative to sterling, and 0.4% against the euro and Mexican peso. To some extent, the dollar’s slippage may […] More
Awaiting Today’s Fed Forecasts and Powell’s Press Conference
March 17, 2021
Against the backdrop of a significantly improved U.S. economic growth outlook this year and rising U.S. and global inflation lately, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed from 0.89% in mid-December to 1.01% when the FOMC last met to a 13-month high of 1.67% today, the second scheduled FOMC meeting of 2021 figures to be the […] More
Covid News Proceeding on Two Tracks, While Dollar Slipping but Slows
November 18, 2020
There’s been more good news regarding Covid vaccine developments as Pfizer’s product, like Moderna’s, has been shown to be 95% effective. Before vaccines can be distributed widely, however, current spikes in cases and deaths point to a very difficult winter ahead for public health and economic activity. New U.S. cases and deaths yesterday approached 160,000 […] More
And the Dollar Downbeat Goes On
September 16, 2020
FOMC Day in America finds the dollar struggling to tread water. The U.S. currency slipped further to a 16-month low against the Chinese yuan and a 7-week low relative to the yen and is hovering near a 5-year low against the Swiss franc and a 2-1/2 year low against the euro. Overnight losses in the […] More
A Relatively Steady Dollar This Monday
July 20, 2020
This will be a light week from a data release standpoint, but many other factors are vying for investor attention as the period commenced. European Union leaders are in their fourth day of talks to find common ground on shared fiscal support against the Covid-19 recession. The U.S. congress returns from two weeks of recess […] More
Dollar Little Changed Overnight
June 17, 2020
The dollar is narrowly mixed this Wednesday. In spite of concerns that attempts to reopen social activities could intensify the Covid-19 pandemic, stock markets mostly rose, with the notable exception of a 0.6% slide in Japan’s Nikkei-225. New Zealand’s market shot up 3.9%, and European bourses show gains today so far of 1.3% in Switzerland, […] More
Disturbing News on Market, Economic, Medical and Social Fronts
April 20, 2020
The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil collapsed under the weight of exhausted storage capacity and plunging demand. At its overnight low of $11.04 per barrel, the price was down 39% on the day and by more than 80% from its 52-week high. It’s also the lowest since the first quarter of 1999 during […] More
Stocks and Bond Prices Tumble, and the Dollar Keeps Strengthening
March 18, 2020
Fear deepened on Wednesday. The number of covid-19 cases worldwide rose over 15,000 in the last 25 hours to 203,612, and 730 more reported deaths brings the pandemic total to 8,229. The U.S. senate continues to obstruct, even though Treasury Secretary Mnuchin reportedly made the prediction of 20-plus unemployment in the United States without passage […] More
China Uncertainty Weighing on Stocks
November 20, 2019
For some time now, much of the day-to-day swings in financial market sentiment has been attributed to shifting perceptions about U.S.-Sino trade talks, and oftentimes in the absence of concrete understanding of how those talks are really progressing. It makes one wonder if the trade talks have been a convenient excuse for explaining away normal […] More
