China’s trade surplus
Temporary Reciprocal Tariff Pause on Tech Lifts Equities But Dollar Continues to Weaken
April 14, 2025
(196) The dollar fell overnight by 0.9% against sterling, 0.8% versus the Mexican peso and New Zealand’s currency, 0.6% relative to the Aussie dollar, 0.2% vis-a-vis the loonie, and 0.3% against the Japanese yen and euro. Intra-day lows of 1.1424 per euro and JPN 142.2 constituted the dollar’s lowest value in 39 and 6 months, […] More
Specter of a Looming U.S. Public Debt Default Looming Higher
May 9, 2023
Investors are finding it harder and harder to dismiss the U.S. debt ceiling standoff as a future danger but not a present influence on market behavior. President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy will hold talks at 20:00 GMT today at the White House in search of a compromise, but high political stakes will almost surely […] More
Released Data in the Spotlight
February 14, 2019
Thursday figured to be a day of data watching with the scheduled release of both Euroland and Japanese GDP figures, plus China’s trade balance. But it was much weaker-than-anticipated U.S. retail sales in December that caught the market’s attention, giving greater credence to recent warnings from several economists that U.S. recessionary risks seem to be […] More
Bond Yields, Oil and Dollar Down, Equities and Gold Up
July 13, 2017
The dollar depreciated 0.7% against the Australian dollar, 0.3% relative to sterling, and 0.1% vis-a-vis the yen, yuan, peso, kiwi and loonie. Exceptions to this downtrend were daily dollar rises of 0.3% against the euro and 0.1% relative to the Swiss franc. West Texas Intermediate crude oil fell 0.7% to $45.19 per barrel. Ten-year German […] More
