The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) trades just beneath 52,500 on Friday, up around 230 points and roughly 1.6% under the record set early in July. That mild figure covers a session that ran close to 600 points, fro…
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) US Oil trades higher on Friday, rising 0.76% to around $83.30 after staging a sharp rebound from an intraday low below $80.00. The Crude Oil has erased some of its weekly losses and is on t…
AUD/USD trades around the 0.7020 area during Friday's American session. The pair remains under mild pressure as disappointing Chinese business activity data offsets stronger Australian inflation expectations, while rene…
The Pound Sterling retreats some 0.02% on Friday as the Greenback stages a recovery following Thursday’s intervention day, which weakened the US Dollar Index (DXY) to a 30-day low. At the time of writing, the GBP/USD tr…
The head of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has been hired away by one of the world’s largest banks — the latest in a trend of regulators joining entities they formerly regulated.
Apple drew investor attention on Wednesday after Evercore ISI reaffirmed it as the firm’s top stock pick in the technology hardware sector, highlighting robust iPhone demand.
USD/CHF trims part of its earlier gains on Friday as the US Dollar (USD) struggles to regain momentum following Thursday’s sharp sell-off, which was driven by suspected intervention by Japanese authorities to curb exces…
TD Securities’ Robert Both and Emma Lawrence note that stronger-than-expected Canadian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data support a brighter growth outlook but do not materially change their Bank of Canada (BoC) view. Th…
ING’s Chris Turner describes USD/JPY’s rollercoaster, with a 3% drop on reported Japanese intervention followed by a near 2% rebound. He notes that coordinated Fed-Treasury involvement was key in January but now sees th…
NZD/USD trades around 0.5860 on Friday, down 0.33% on the day, as investors react to another deterioration in Chinese business activity. China, New Zealand's largest trading partner, reported that the official NBS Manuf…
Scotiabank’s FX team notes EUR/USD is drifting toward 1.15 after a Fed‑driven rally, with euro area CPI broadly in line with expectations and French data briefly lifting the Euro. Rate expectations are stabilizing, with…
GBP/JPY extends its slide on Friday as suspected intervention by Japanese authorities rattles the FX market and lifts the Yen across the board, pushing the cross further away from the multi-year high of 219.16 touched e…
USD/JPY trades sharply lower near the 159.50 area on Friday as the Japanese Yen (JPY) strengthens following intervention by Japanese authorities and a relatively hawkish Bank of Japan (BoJ) policy announcement.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) economists Abbey Xu and Nathan Janzen note that Canadian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 0.3% in May, with an advance estimate of 0.2% for June, indicating a solid second-quarter rebound aft…
BNY’s Geoff Yu highlights that the Japanese Yen (JPY) entered the latest Bank of Japan (BoJ) decision and suspected intervention with weak flow momentum and lighter positioning, even as investors remained net long JPY a…
Silver price (XAG/USD) is down 1.7% to near $58.00 during the European trading session on Friday. The white metal continues to decline throughout the day as United States (US) Treasury Yields have bounced back amid fear…
Gold (XAU/USD) edges lower on Friday as the US Dollar (USD) stabilizes following the previous day’s sharp sell-off, while hawkish Federal Reserve (Fed) expectations remain a key headwind for the non-yielding metal.
Commerzbank’s Norman Liebke and colleagues highlight that Brent remains volatile as Middle East tensions and shipping disruptions through key chokepoints constrain supply. They note that OPEC+ is expected to raise Septe…
The Japanese Yen (JPY) posts moderate losses against the US Dollar (USD) on Friday, with the USD/JPY pair trading just above 160.00 at the time of writing, after whipsawing within a rough 240-pip range between 158.60 an…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes that the Dollar stabilized after a sharp sell-off linked to suspected USD/JPY intervention, but argues the broader USD rally since May has likely ended, with US Dollar …
AUD/USD trades around 0.7030 at the time of writing on Friday, little changed on the day after Thursday's strong rally. The Australian Dollar (AUD) continues to draw support from the persistent weakness in the US Dollar…
TD Securities strategists expect Canadian real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to rise by 0.2% m/m in May, exceeding the flash estimate and extending April’s 0.5% gain. They highlight balanced growth across goods and servi…
Viridian Therapeutics stock has fallen 37.8% year to date, yet the valuation checks still point to the shares looking expensive rather than like a clear bargain.
Annual Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) in the Eurozone, as measured by changes in the prices of a representative basket of goods and services in the European Monetary Union, rises at a faster pace of 2.9% in …