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Markets Taking a Breather
April 15, 2026
President Trump continues to dangle the chances of a deal with Iran happening soon and the April 21st ceasefire deadline getting extended. Dual blockades of the Strait of Hormuz are containing shipping traffic through the water body to a minimum but reportedly not zero. After several days with wide swings in financial market values, investors […] More
Oil Price Firms After Trump Lessens Military Threat Against Iran
January 15, 2026
The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil rebounded 4.2% overnight after President Trump withdrew his threat of immediate military action against Iran. Trump did this because info he has received suggests that the killing of protesters in Iran has lessened greatly. In other market developments overnight, The dollar is mostly mostly higher, with gains […] More
Business World Plows On In Spite of Dystopic Newsfeed
December 15, 2025
(161) The coming week will be the last one of 2025 in which financial markets are not heavily affected by year-end factors. A heavy menu of economic data releases, including belated U.S. ones due to the government shutdown. Oftentimes particularly in the early years of the floating exchange rate era, the dollar exhibited a downward […] More
First Day After Shutdown Ends Sees a Softer Dollar and Fresh Uncertainties
November 13, 2025
America’s longest federal government shutdown, 43 days in duration, ended last night, only to leave fresh uncertainties in its wake such as the times when many delayed U.S. data reports get released, what such will show, what now happens to the U.S. president’s approval ratings and other domestic political impacts, the lagged fallout on air […] More
Softer Dollar Again
September 16, 2025
The dollar was nudged lower as the Federal Open Market Committee prepared to begin a 2-day policy review that is likely to cut the federal funds rate target for the first time since last December. President Trump’s newest governor-appointee Stephen Miran and Lisa Cook, whom he tried to prevent from participating in the decision, will […] More
Market’s Attention Pivoting to How Central Banks Might React to Changing Global Outlook
April 15, 2025
Whereas equities mostly rose Tuesday in Asia and Europe, U.S. stock futures are trading slightly in the red. Share prices closed up by 2.1% in India, 1.8% in Taiwan and Singapore, and 0.8% in Japan and have so far advanced 1.6% in Italy, 1.2% in Spain, 0.9% in Germany and 0.8% in the U.K. The […] More
Sour Investor Mood Ahead of U.S. PPI Release
March 13, 2025
U.S. equities got only a dead-cat bounce from Wednesday’s slightly better-than-expected consumer price data and are back showing red ahead of producer price figures due shortly. With his assortment of U.S. policy about-faces, President Trump has acquired a Grinch-like aura in the world financial community. At this writing, The dollar is down 0.2% against the […] More
Another Strong Performance for Crypto and the Dollar
November 14, 2024
Prior to today’s release of U.S. October producer price figures, the weighted DXY dollar index had advanced another 0.3% to a two-year high. There were gains of 0.3% relative to the Swiss franc, sterling and yen and by 0.2% relative to the euro, kiwi and Australian dollars. The dollar got as firm as JPY 156.24 […] More
Failed Assassination Fallout, Soft Chinese Data, and Awaited Comments from Fed Chairman Powell
July 15, 2024
Expectations that Donald Trump will win November’s election got a large additional boost from Saturday’s unsuccessful assassination attempt. The immediate repercussions in world financial markets include A 3.0% jump in the crypto currencies and a modest 0.1% strengthening of the dollar from safe haven-seeking capital flows. A steepening of the U.S. yield curve, reflecting the […] More
Central Bank Decisions and Price Data
June 13, 2024
The FOMC‘s June interest rate decision, updated forecasts, and press conference yesterday left an impression that was not quite as hawkish as feared. The likelihood of three rate cuts that had been signaled as recently as March is now remote, but the possibility of one cut before yearend is still clearly in play, and even […] More
