
Last week, there were sharp swings in USDJPY, a decline in oil prices, and a surge in Tesla stock. What's next?
On Friday, the greenback kept to its lowest value for October versus its key opponents because diving American treasury gains as well as further dips on Wall Street affected market sentiment.
Assessing the purchasing potential of the major American currency against a number of its primary counterparts the USD index kept to 95 on Friday, declining from its monthly maximum of 96.15 recorded on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average concluded at a two-month minimum of 25,052l, losing 2.13%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 concluded 2.05% down. As for the Dow, it declined by nearly 7% from an all-time maximum of 26,951 reached on October 3.
A weaker-than-predicted ascend in American consumer prices undermined the evergreen buck because market participants cut back their wagers on the key US bank increasing the tempo of its planned rate lifts.
The previous months Fed representatives told that they hoped for up to three rate lifts next year, and some told that they are ready for a rate lift already in December that would be the fourth in 2018.Additionally, the benchmark 10-year Treasury gain went down to 3.1705% having slumped to a seven-year maximum of 3.261% on Tuesday.
The common currency happened to be the key beneficiary of broad-based US dollar weakness, reaching a new weekly maximum at 1.1611 due to a weakening greenback and an upbeat tone in minutes of the recent European Central Bank gathering.
According to the minutes, the ECB was on track to have its ultra-loose monetary policy normalized in 2018 notwithstanding fears about decelerating surge in the EU.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar ended up with 1.3024.
In October, the evergreen buck has rallied nearly 1% against its Canadian counterpart.
As for the New Zealand dollar, it was nearly intact sticking with 0.6518.
Last week, there were sharp swings in USDJPY, a decline in oil prices, and a surge in Tesla stock. What's next?
Geopolitical factors and inflation remain the main drivers of financial markets. Let’s see how to use that in trading!
Have a look at the key financial instruments on Monday, February 28. Geopolitics is currently on all news frontlines. Western nations escalated sanctions on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics will announce the updated Unemployment Rate and Employment Change data on Thursday, May 19, at 04:30 MT.
The UK Office for National Statistics will publish Consumer Price Index (CPI) data on Wednesday, May 18, at 09:00 MT.
The US Census Bureau will announce Core Retail Sales and Retail Sales on Tuesday, May 17 at 15:30 MT.
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