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Concerns Over Delta Covid Strains Weigh on European Equities
June 28, 2021
Net overnight movements in the dollar have been marginal and mixed, with dips of 0.5% versus the Turkish lira and 0.2% relative to sterling and upticks of 0.3% verus the Mexican peso, 0.2% against the Swiss franc and 0.1% vis-a-vis the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars. The U.S. currency is unchanged against the yen, […] More
Across-the-Board Strength in the Dollar Early this Friday
May 28, 2021
Prior to today’s release of U.S. data, the dollar had advanced 1.3% against the Turkish lira, 0.6% versus the Swiss franc and Australian dollar, 0.4% vis-a-vis the loonie, peso and weighted DXY index, 0.2% versus the yen, and 0.3% against the euro and sterling. U.S. stock futures had extended yesterday’s gain by around 0.5%, and […] More
Dollar Firms…. Trump Wants Big Changes in Pandemic Relief Bill
December 23, 2020
The dollar rose overnight by 0.5% against the Swiss franc, 0.4% versus the euro, Aussie and New Zealand currencies and Mexican peso, and 0.2% relative to the yen, loonie, and sterling. Stocks also rebounded, with Asian gains of 1.0% in India and South Korea, 0.9% in Hong Kong, 0.8% in China, 0.3% in Japan, and […] More
Sterling Looking a Touch Fragile
December 23, 2019
The weakest major currency this Monday has been sterling, which has slipped below $1.30 and by 0.4% in all from Friday’s close. The U.S. dollar otherwise has been mixed, dipping 0.2% against both the Australian and New Zealand dollars and 0.1% relative to the yen and euro. The dollar alternatively shows slight gains of 0.2% […] More
Tariff War Concerns Rattle Investors
May 28, 2019
President Trump’s predisposition to fight a tariff war that he believes is winnable depressed the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield below 2.30% to its lowest level since October 2017 and weighed on European and Asian share prices. Equities fell 1.1% in Indonesia, 0.4% in New Zealand and 0.2% in Taiwan and Singapore. Stocks in Europe have […] More
Trump Dangles Possibility of Trade Deal with China Before Market Ahead of Mid-Term Election
November 2, 2018
U.S. President Trump claimed trade talk progress after phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping and instructed his cabinet to frame a possible trade deal with China before the G20 summit November 30-December 01 in Buenas Aires. The timing of this development four days ahead of U.S. mid-term elections is conspicuous. Stock markets around the […] More
Dollar, U.S. Stocks, and Treasury Yields Little Changed After Strong U.S. GDP Report
July 27, 2018
U.S. GDP expanded 4.1% last quarter at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate. That was the fastest quarterly pace since the third quarter of 2014, but analysts had anticipated such a figure. Personal consumption, non-residential investment and government spending climbed 4.0%, 7.3% and 2.1%, respectively. Net foreign demand augmented the growth rate by 1.1 percentage points […] More
Monday Rebound of Stocks Extended and Dollar Higher Too
March 27, 2018
Share prices closed up 2.7% in Japan, 1.2% in in Hong Kong, 1.4% in Taiwan, 1.1% in China, 1.0% in New Zealand, 0.8% in Singapore and 0.7% in Australia. In European trading, equities have risen between 1.5% and 2.0% in the U.K., Germany and Switzerland and between 1.0% and 1.5% in France, Spain and Italy. […] More
10-Year U.S. Treasury and German Bund Yields Each Five Basis Points Higher
January 29, 2018
The 10-year Treasury yield exceeds 2.70% for the first time since mid-April 2014. The German 10-year bund yield matched the rise of its U.S. counterpart and has already climbed 25 basis points since end-2017 to 0.67%. Ten-year British gilt and Japanese JGB yields edged a basis point higher overnight as well. President Trump made a […] More
Only Marginal Net Dollar Movement on a Newsworthy Friday
December 22, 2017
The approaching Christmas holiday, which has some markets closing early today, appears to have muted changes in the dollar, which has moved up 0.3% against the loonie, 0.2% relative to the euro, Swissie, and peso, and 0.1% vis-a-vis the yen and kiwi while slipping 0.2% relative to the Aussie dollar, 0.1% against the yuan and […] More
