A Weak NFP Won’t Delay Fed’s Taper Plan, But Who Will Benefit?
A higher interest rate environment is expected, as the Fed has set the tapering timeline to happen within this year. If anyone were to benefit from such an environment, it would have to be the...
Watch Dollar’s Upside After Jobs Report This Friday!
As the Fed has made the message very clear that tapering is going to happen within the year, the payroll data this Friday will become a crucial gauge. Any weaker-than-expected reading may not trigger...
Why Wall Street Loves Dollar Now?
The road to higher Treasury yields finally appears to be clearing up as the Fed edges closer to ending emergency pandemic policies. This is certainly good news to the greenback.
Dollar to Move Higher Amid Risks and FOMC
Stocks and US equity futures fell Monday, hurt by a slump in Hong Kong property developers and jitters ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting that’s expected to hint at moving toward paring stimulus....
US CPI Data This Week Hints at Tapering in December
Fed is expected to begin tapering in December at a pace of $15 billion a meeting, with a $10 billion and $5 billion split between Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.
What US Jobs Report Can Tell Us About Fed and Dollar’s Direction?
Last week’s price action was all about the US payrolls report, which turned out to be a massive miss. The S&P 500 fell, but later climbed back to almost unchanged on thin pre-holiday volume, while...
Will Jackson Hole Become a Dovish Event?
Chair of Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, speaking on the economic outlook at the upcoming central bank’s Jackson Hole economic symposium, will dominate market direction. Fed officials appear on track...
Dollar May Still Face Downward Pressure Ahead of Jackson Hole
Markets appear to have decided that Jackson Hole will be the next key event in gauging the Fed’s path, in a week filled with a slew of US policy makers’ hints on US monetary policy’s next step....
Jobs Report Signals Fed’s Tapering Is Near
The jobs data beat expectations last week, which led to both gold and silver selling off into the close. This morning we are seeing the overhang of that as perhaps those traders, who are a bit late...
Downside Risk to Spike During NFP This Week Amid Delta Variant Spread
August has a history of sudden spikes in volatility. Think back to the sell-off in August 2011, or the drama of 2015. With many areas of the world now experiencing an uptick in Covid and the CBOE’s...
Prepare for High Volatility as the Fed Meeting Is Coming!
It’s a currency seasonality thing for sure: the market gets calmer in June, only for price action to turn more volatile in July to August. It seems like 2021 could be another year that the Fed is...
Oil Supply & Risk Sentiment Suggest More Upside for Dollar
There is more upside for the dollar in the near term as the OPEC+ agreement, to increase oil supplies, weigh on energy companies in Asia and add to the negative tone from last week’s equities close....
Healthy NFP Data May Cause Dollar’s Uptrend to Pause
The dollar’s recovery from its May low could be over, after Friday’s drop in US payrolls data.
Dollar Bulls May Continue as Inflation Rises
A key inflation indicator that the Federal Reserve uses to setA key inflation indicator, that the Federal Reserve uses to set policies, rose 3.4% in May, from a year ago. This has been the fastest...
Dollar to Continue Its Bullish Run as Fed Signals Tightening
The US dollar has been on fire since last Thursday, extending gains one day after an unexpected shift in the Federal Reserve’s inflation and interest-rate outlook, and raising doubts about the...
Dollar Could Dive Below 90-Level If Fed Ignore Tapering Discussion
If the Federal Reserve’s view on inflation prevails, a few key things must change, particularly when it comes to getting people back to work. Having said that, the Fed is unlikely to discuss about...
US NFP Will Pressure Dollar Before Fed Meeting This Month
US Treasury yield dropped on Friday amid signs of investors covering short positions in the wake of weaker-than-anticipated US jobs data, putting downward pressure on dollar.
US NFP Will Pressure Dollar Before Fed Meeting This Month
US Treasury yield dropped on Friday amid signs of investors covering short positions in the wake of weaker-than-anticipated US jobs data, putting downward pressure on dollar.
Dollar Expected to Rebound from Jobs Data This Week
Currency traders are watching this week’s US unemployment rate for cues on the greenback’s path after it retreated from a two-month high against the yen. The currency pair declined as...
