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West Texas Intermediate (WTI) US Oil declines 1.21% on Friday and trades around $88.55 per barrel at the time of writing. The Crude Oil remains close to its recent highs and is still heading for a strong weekly gain as …
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MUFG’s Michael Wan highlights a sharp strengthening in the Japanese Yen, with USD/JPY dropping from 160 to around 155.30 as the Dollar broadly weakened and Asian FX gained. The report notes uncertainty over any Bank of …
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Sam Azzarello: What's next for markets and the global economy after a year defined by escalating tariffs, persistent geopolitical tensions, and the rise of artificial intelligence across industries?
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Gold (XAU/USD) falls sharply on Friday, snapping a two-day recovery after the US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report surprised strongly to the upside. The metal briefly climbed above $4,500 on Thursday, gaining nearly 2%, but…
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On January 3, 2026, the United States launched a special operation to exfiltrate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Caracas. Below, Brookings experts consider the immediate implications of this operat…
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The USD/JPY pair stages a modest intraday recovery from the vicinity of the August monthly low and climbs back to the 156.50 area during the Asian session on Friday. Spot prices, for now, seem to have snapped a two-day …
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The Indian Rupee (INR) opens on a flat note against the US Dollar (USD) on Friday, but is close to its two-month high of 94.29 posted the previous day. The Indian currency strengthens due to strong inflows of foreign fu…
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Gold (XAU/USD) remains on the defensive below the $4,500 mark through the Asian session on Friday, snapping a two-day winning streak amid a modest US Dollar (USD) uptick. The commodity, however, remains close to the wee…
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The GBP/USD pair edges higher to around 1.3530 during the early European trading hours on Friday. Hawkish rhetoric from a Bank of England (BoE) policymaker provides some support to the British Pound (GBP) against the US…
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USD/IDR gains ground after two days of losses, trading around 17,670 during the Asian hours on Friday. The currency pair is pushing higher as the US Dollar (USD) holds onto its recent gains after rebounding from intrada…
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West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the benchmark US Crude Oil price – trades below the $90.00 mark during the Asian session on Friday and remains close to its highest level since July 24, touched earlier this week. The com…
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USD/CHF gains ground after registering losses in the previous day, trading around 0.8080 during Asian hours on Friday. The pair appreciates as the US Dollar (USD) holds gains after recovering daily losses; however, the …
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The AUD/JPY cross trades in positive territory near 112.80 during the early European trading hours on Friday. However, the potential upside for the cross might be limited as traders ramped up bets on a Bank of Japan (Bo…
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The GBP/JPY tanks amid speculation of intervention by Japanese authorities in the FX markets, driven by a rate check by Tokyo. The cross-pair drops more than 300 pips, trades at 210.92, down by more than 1.40%.
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The New Zealand Dollar trades just under 0.5900 into the New York afternoon, up roughly half a percent, after a session that retraced most of Wednesday's decision-day slide without a single New Zealand input. NZD/USD cl…
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The Australian Dollar rises against the US Dollar on Thursday as Fed Governor Waller turns moderately dovish ahead of the September meeting, even as Oil prices rise due to a resumption of hostilities in the Middle East.…
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UOB economist Jester Koh highlights that Singapore’s electronics PMI rose in August, with broad-based gains in new export orders, output and backlogs. Koh argues recent softness in electronics NODX and IP likely reflect…
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Geoff Yu at BNY highlights CNY as the main outlier in the U.S. trade-weighted basket, showing behavior opposite to other key currencies. CNY failed to react positively to July–August Fed and Treasury decisions, with wea…
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The Yen has produced in two sessions what the largest intervention on record could not, and it did so without a single reported purchase. USD/JPY trades just under 156.00 after a session that ran from a high just under …
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Last chance to short $OSE:NK2251! OSE:NK2251! formed top 73000 at 23 June, move downward and formed wave 1 & 2. The key point to confirm downtrend is 66500. If drop below, the 1st target is 63000 (wave 3) and rebound to…
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The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) Deputy Governor Jonathan Heath said that the central bank can wait to reduce interest rates, signaling that further easing is possible but in about a year or more, as he qualified the curren…
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The Mexican Peso appreciates against the US Dollar on Thursday, with the latter weakening amid a dovish tilt by Fed Governor Waller and speculation about an FX market intervention to boost the Japanese Yen. The USD/MXN …
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USD/CAD extends its decline for the second consecutive day on Thursday as broad US Dollar (USD) weakness and the Bank of Canada’s (BoC) hawkish message at its September policy meeting support the Canadian Dollar (CAD). …
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Scotiabank’s Global FX Strategy team reports the British Pound (GBP) is flat versus the US Dollar (USD) but softer on crosses, with UK PMI data offering little new insight. Markets price minimal tightening for the Septe…