Market Overview - Page 51

Disappointing economic data from the UK prevented the Pound from rallying despite the Dollar’s weakness. Statistics for July showed that the economy’s volume was almost unchanged from the previous month, much weaker than the expected 0.2% m/m growth. The biggest.

In the UK, jobless claims rose by 23.7K in August, much better than the 95.5K expected and the 102.3K rise in the previous month. This is relatively positive data as it suggests that the rate of deterioration in the UK.

Oil pressure shows no sign of easing, with the price of a barrel of Brent touching lows of $70.50 last Friday and on Monday. The oil price has approached the psychologically important level, as it has traded consistently below $70 for more.

After an initial decline, the USD began to rally on the back of US employment data that dampened expectations of a 50-basis point rate cut by the Fed in September. The US employment data, which triggered a fall in the.

The unwinding of the carry trade in the FX market continues, with the major safe havens returning to the extremes seen against the dollar in early August. A new wave of risk aversion has been synchronised across currency and equity.

Fresh signs of a cooling labour market are boosting confidence in the Fed’s policy turnaround but have so far had a mixed effect on the dynamics of major markets. The labour market is in the spotlight this week as it.

Perhaps disinflationary trends in the eurozone are giving way to pro-inflationary ones. The eurozone’s producer price index rose 0.8% in July after rising 0.6% in the previous month. Prices are still lower year-on-year for the fifteenth month, with a reading.

US equity markets have been hit by a sell-off, with the Nasdaq100 down more than 3% and the S&P500 down more than 2%, the biggest drop in almost a month. Nvidia’s share price fell more than 10% as the antitrust.

Swiss inflation slowed to 1.1% y/y in August from 1.3% the previous month, below the 1.2% expected. In April and May, the rate of price increases rose to 1.4% y/y but later started to fall again, losing 0.2% in the.

The US dollar’s recovery continues, and other markets are starting to notice. The dollar index is up 1.4% to 101.7, having found support twice in the first half of last week before falling to 101.4. The bounce has seen the.

Often the release of fundamental data such as oil inventories and production or economic activity influences the market, although sometimes the price behaves independently, as was the case last week. The cost of a barrel of WTI fell by 2%.

Gold has hit a glass ceiling at $2525 an ounce on the spot market, which it has been battling against for the past two weeks. A series of smaller and smaller pullbacks and more frequent rallies to the resistance indicate.