U.S. producer prices
Mideast Tensions Flare and Long-Term Interest Rate Spreads Widen
January 12, 2024
As warned previously, U.S. and British retaliatory air strikes on Houthis targets in Yemen were carried out to avenge previous Houthis attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. The price of WTI oil leaped 3.6% overnight on fears of a widening war in the Middle East. While the 10-year U.S. treasury yield climbed three […] More
Risk Aversion Persists as Investors Get Ready for U.S. PPI Release
August 11, 2023
Any sense of investor complacency after Thursday’s CPI figures was squelched by San Francisco Fed President Daly’s cautionary remarks that sustainable price stability will remain elusive without less labor market tightness than exists currently. An enduring impact of former Fed Chairman Volcker’s victory over inflation forty years ago is that higher-than-desired U.S. inflation provides support […] More
Dollar Marking Time as Two-Day FOMC Meeting Commences
December 14, 2021
The dollar remained unchanged on balance overnight against the euro, Swiss franc, kiwi, yuan and versus its weighted DXY index. The greenback ticked 0.1% higher relative to the yen and loonie and 0.1% lower vis-a-vis sterling. A two-day meeting of the FOMC began in which policymakers are expected to accelerate previously signaled plans to taper […] More
Additional Leap in U.S. Covid Cases; Euroland 3Q GDP and U.S. PPI Headline Data Menu
November 13, 2020
The dollar is slightly weaker today, with overnight losses of 0.4% against the peso, 0.3% versus sterling, 0.2% vis-a-vis the yen and Australian dollar, and 0.1% relative to the Swiss franc. The dollar is also unchanged against the yuan and euro. Covid News continued to weigh on Asian equities, which dropped 0.9% in China, 0.7% […] More
Softer Dollar as Second Week of July Draws to a Close
July 12, 2019
The dollar fell overnight by 0.5% against the Swiss franc, 0.4% versus the yen, 0.3% relative to the Australian dollar, and 0.2% vis-a-vis the loonie, peso, and sterling. EUR/USD is unchanged, however. The S&P 500, Hang Seng, Nikkei, and German Dax are barely changed, but Chinese equities rose 0.5% after release of Chinese data showing […] More
Declines in Kiwi, Ruble and Turkish Lira
August 9, 2018
The dollar advanced overnight by 1.6% against the New Zealand dollar, 0.9% versus the Russian ruble, and some 2.5% vis-a-vis the Turkish lira. Not only did the latest review of New Zealand monetary policy end with leaving the Official Cash Rate at 1.75%, half its level prior to the June 2015 first of 7 reductions, […] More
Markets React as Trump Stirs Pot of Global Disorder Further
July 11, 2018
Share prices dropped 1.8% in China, 1.4% in Hong Kong, 1.2% in Japan, and 0.7% in Taiwan and Australia. In European markets, equities today are down over 1.0% in Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland, and the DOW dropped some 160 points in the first quarter hour of U.S. trading. There have also been outsized […] More
Mixed Dollar, Higher Sovereign Debt Yields, and Big Jump in Price of Oil
May 9, 2018
In the wake of the U.S. pull-out from the multinational Iran nuclear deal, the dollar has fallen 0.7% against the loonie, 0.2% versus the kiwi and 0.1% relative to the peso, yuan and sterling. The greenback has risen 0.3% against the Swiss franc and 0.1% versus the euro, and it is unchanged relative to the […] More
Risk Off Investor Mood
August 10, 2017
Gold has inched closer to $1,300 per ounce, climbing 1.0% overnight to $1,292.60 per ounce. The dollar fell another 0.6% against the yen, touching an 8-week low against that currency. The dollar also dropped 0.4% relative to the yuan but booked marginal gains versus the euro, Swissy, loonie, and Aussie dollars. A bigger advance was […] More
