Week Ahead – Inflation and Recession Risks
US While Europe appears at great risk for a recession as traders bet on aggressive rate rises by all...
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Podcast – Tightening to a recession
OANDA Senior Market Analyst Ed Moya joins Jonny Hart and Trader Nick to analyze the flash global PMI...
Weak Global PMIs trigger risk aversion, Bostic favors no more hikes,
Stocks tumble on fears monetary tightening will trigger a recession Fed rate hike bets still only pr...
Economic jitters hurt oil and boost gold, Crypto unfazed
Recession risks drive safe-haven flows gold’s way Oil has worst weekly decline since May Bitco...
Euro skids after soft PMI data, markets eye ISM Mfg. PMI
Eurozone and German PMIs weakened in June EUR/USD fell as much as 110 pips on Friday EUR/USD has tak...
GBP/USD shrugs after solid UK retail sales report
UK posts better-than-expected retail sales, consumer confidence British pound shrugs after BoE’...
USD/JPY rallies, Japanese inflation remains above target
USD/JPY climbs above 143 Japan’s core CPI remains above 3% The Japanese yen has stabilized on ...
USD/JPY surged to a 7-month high but fundamentals diverge
USD/JPY rallied by 100 pips and broke above 142.50 resistance in yesterday’s NY session. Japan’s...
Oil and gold tumble as central bank tightening threatens global outlook, Bitcoin at $30k
Oil Oil prices are going to remain heavy as central bank tightening will kill the global growth outl...
USD/CHF – SNB hikes rates and warns more may follow
OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses today’s interest rate decision from the Swis...
Canadian dollar gets boost from sizzling retail sales
Canada’s retail sales higher than expected Fed’s Powell stays hawkish, signals two rate ...
Podcast – BoE, SNB and CBRT raise rates, bitcoin hits $30,000
OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam joins Jonny Hart and Trader Nick to discuss the latest inter...
Hawks in charge of Central Bank-a-Palooza (BOE, CBRT, Norges)
BOE raises rates by 50bps to 5.00% (not expected) CBRT raises rates 650bps to 15.00% (less-than-expe...
BoE slams on the brakes again, CBRT a step in the right direction
The Bank of England accelerated its tightening efforts after meeting this week, hiking rates by 0.5%...
SNB opts for smaller hike but signals it isn’t done yet
The Swiss National Bank slowed the pace of its tightening cycle on Thursday, in line with market exp...
British pound steady ahead of BoE rate decision
BoE expected to raise rates at Wednesday’s meeting Powell signals two more rate hikes this yea...
GBP/USD Technical: Looking to resume minor up move
Recent drop of 156 pips from the current 52-week high of 1.2848 has not damaged GBP/USD minor uptren...
Hawkish Powell weighs on stocks, 50 basis points on the table for the BoE
European stocks are poised to open a little lower on Thursday, tracking moves we saw in the US on We...
Oil remains choppy, gold eyes BoE decision
Oil remains choppy but edging towards the upper end of its range Oil prices remain very volatile as ...
Powell’s higher for longer interest rates spook risk assets and USD
High-duration US stocks underperformed, Nasdaq 100 on track for worst weekly performance since 6 Mar...