British GDP and current account
Fed Showing Patience Amid Robust U.S. Economic Data
March 28, 2024
Governor Waller is the latest top Federal Reserve Governor to affirm the prudence to not cutting rates as soon as the FOMC had been signaling earlier this year. This patience in the face of robust U.S. economic data has not adversely affected investor sentiment the way such did not long ago. U.S. equities are so […] More
Monthend, Quarterend, and a Flood of Rain and Data Reported
September 29, 2023
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield was at 4.55% just prior to 08:30 EDT, down from Thursday’s intra-day and 194-month high of 4.68%. This respite was aided by some remarks from Fed officials suggesting that coming rate moves have not been decided yet. German, French, Spanish and Italian 10-year sovereign debt yields are 7-8 basis points […] More
Many Data to Absorb on Final Day of Second Quarter
June 30, 2023
It’s been a good Friday for equities, which closed up by 1.3% in India and 0.6% in China and South Korea. A sharper-than-forecast 1.6% drop of Japanese industrial production in May left the Nikkei with a 0.1% downtick, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index also slipped 0.1% on the day. However, share prices are showing […] More
A Typical Quarter-End Deluge of Economic Data
March 31, 2023
Prior to the U.S. release of personal income and spending, the dollar was showing overnight gains of 0.4% against the Swiss franc, Japanese yen and Australian dollar and of 0.3% versus the euro and on a weighted basis as measured by the DXY index. Nonetheless, the dollar over the whole first quarter lost ground on […] More
Fresh Reality Check Drives Stocks, Bonds and Crypto Lower but Dollar Up
December 22, 2022
The dollar strengthened 0.8% against the New Zealand currency, 0.6% relative to sterling, 0.5% versus the Australian and Canadian dollars, and 0.4% vis-a-vis the Swiss franc but just 0.1% against the euro and not at all versus the Japanese yen or Chinese yuan so far today. Equities had done mighty fine in the Pacific Rim, […] More
Revised U.S. and British GDP Figures, Record High PPI Reports, and a Big Czech Central Bank Rate Hike
December 22, 2021
Market activity so far this Wednesday has been less volatile than in recent days. The weighted DXY dollar index settled back 0.2% and was around overnight lows at the time of the U.S. stock market opening. The dollar has fallen 0.5% against the Australian dollar, Turkish lira and sterling but just 0.2% relative to the […] More
End of Third Quarter 2021
September 30, 2021
The DXY weighted dollar dipped 0.1% overnight but experienced a quarterly advance of around 2.5%. In the Pacific Rim, share prices on the final trading day of the quarter rose 1.9% in Australia, 1.4% in New Zealand, 2.0% in Indonesia, and 0.9% in China but fell by 0.4% in Hong Kong and 0.3% in Japan. […] More
Dollar and Equities Little Changed, but Considerable Data Were Released on this Final Day of 2Q
June 30, 2021
The dollar remained unchanged overnight against its DXY weighted index, the yen, loonie and sterling and shows an uptick of 0.1% relative to the euro and Australian dollar. The dollar nonetheless is headed for a strong advance in the second quarter, reflecting Covid trends and a tweaking of Fed forward guidance toward an earlier tapering […] More
Digesting the Debate and a Slew of Quarter-End Data
September 30, 2020
Last night’s U.S. presidential debate was violently repulsive and leaves an embarrassing after-taste. The dollar hasn’t reacted discernibly, however, with gains of 0.3% against the euro and Swiss franc and 0.2% relative to sterling, no net change relative to the Japanese yen, and dips of 0.1% vis-a-vis the loonie, Aussie dollar and yuan. There have […] More
Some Setbacks, Many Data Reports, and Powell to Testify
June 30, 2020
After a big gain on Monday, U.S. equity futures point to a lower Tuesday open. In Europe so far, share prices have settled back 0.7% in the U.K. and Spain, 0.4% in Italy, 0.3% in Switzerland and 0.1% in France. In the Pacific Rim, markets closed up 1.4% in Australia, 1.9% in New Zealand, 1.3% […] More
