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FOMO Friday: GBPUSD Breaks Down To Fresh 2022 Lows

What a week. Feels like I’ve been saying this quite a lot recently, but it’s been another action-packed session for financial traders. We’ve seen rate hikes from the Fed, the SNB, Norges Bank and the...

Rate Differential and Geopolitical Risks Keep Chances Low for a USD Reversal

Greenback continues to gain more ground thanks to a “welcomed” mix of geopolitical instability and increasing policy lag between the Fed and other major central banks. Even though the market...

Rising Geopolitical Risks, Hawkish Fed Fears Drive Greenback to a new High

And finally, the day of the FOMC meeting arrived. Over the past few meetings, the Fed has been raising rates at the fastest pace in decades, but even so, the market is speculating about the...

Markets rebound on profit-taking, dollar stalls

The FOMC meeting is due tomorrow and policymakers are expected to lift interest rate by 75 basis points. The odds of a larger rate hike of 100 bps are estimated at 20%. Hawkish US inflation report for...

The Risk of Fed’s 100 bp Move Drives Stocks and Bonds Lower, Greenback Higher

Greenback retains advantage ahead of the FOMC meeting with DXY consolidating around 110 points while demand for risk assets contracts on the back of two key drivers. First, investors are worried about...

Precious Metals Monday 19-09-2022

Metals Under Pressure Ahead of FOMCIt’s been a soft start to the week for the metals market as fresh strength in USD sees gold and silver both sold over the European open on Monday. Traders’ focus...

Market sell-off ahead of the FOMC increases chances for a dovish policy outcome

Despite mixed data on the US economy released on Thursday (strong retail sales and unemployment claims, weaker-than-expected industrial production), Treasury sell-off gained momentum with two-year...

FOMO Friday: GBPJPY Reverses Heavily Lower

GBPJPY Goes Down It’s been another very interesting week in financial markets. We’ve seen plenty of key data releases with inflation and retail sales readings for both the US and the UK along with...

The Crude Chronicles - Episode 154

Oil Traders Cut Longs AgainThe latest CFTC COT institutional positioning report shows that oil traders reduced their net long positions last week from around 229k contracts to roughly 214k contracts....