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Dollar Trading at Highest Level Since the First Week of January
February 7, 2023
The softening dollar trend in the final quarter of 2022 had extended into January, but that month’s losses have been mostly reversed in recent days by heightened geopolitical strains between the U.S. and China and even more so by a rise in expectations about how high the federal funds rate will need to be raised […] More
Investors Treading Water Ahead of U.S. Monthly Release of Jobs Data
August 5, 2022
Market movements: U.S. stock futures and the dollar are barely changed. Likewise, the prices of gold and West Texas Intermediate crude oil have dipped just 0.2% and 0.3%, although the latter has now retreated roughly 29% from its 52-week high set in early March. Bitcoin rallied 3.4%. The Reserve Bank of India engineered a third […] More
Continuing Shift into Riskier Assets
February 5, 2021
It’s been another up-session for equities. Markets closed up 1.5% in Japan, 1.1% in South Korea and Australia, and 0.6% in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Market gains today so far exceed 1.0% in France, Italy, and Spain, and U.S. futures are up about 0.4% following yesterday’s senate partisan vote supporting President Biden’s $1.9 trillion proposed […] More
U.S. Jobs Day but That’s Been Overshadowed by Re-escalating Trade Tensions
April 6, 2018
Forecasters anticipate the U.S. March labor market data will show creation of almost 200K jobs, a further small dip in the unemployment rate, and a pickup of hourly wage earnings growth. Share prices and commodity prices fell overnight in response to fresh concern that the U.S.-Sino trade dispute cannot be negotiated away. President Trump has […] More
