Online Forex broker
On Thursday, the evergreen buck managed to ascend versus its counterparts. A weakening euro enabled market participants to purchase the evergreen buck after ECB Governor Mario Draghi repeated that interest rates would be left intact until 2019.
Estimating the purchasing power of the US currency against a bunch of its major rivals, the USD index managed to add 0.46% trading at 94.41.
On Thursday, Draghi confirmed the major bank’s intention to keep interest rates intact at least until the summer of next year.
He also told that market expectations of rate lifts turned out to be aligned enoug with the ECB’s own projections.
It actually confirmed investors’ hopes that the EU’s key financial institution is reluctant to have interest rates lifted until October 2019, thus making the common currency sink versus the US dollar.
The currency pair EUR/USD went down 0.54% reaching $1.1665.
The reports disclosing poor American economic data were unable to tame the greenback's leap due to the fact that market participants were still optimistic on domestic economic surge ahead of second-quarter GDP data.
On Wednesday, the Commerce Department told that core durable goods orders ascended by 0.4% in June, confounding experts’ forecast for a 0.5%.
Meanwhile, the US Department of Labor informed that initial jobless claims soared by 9,000 hitting 217,000, ruining experts’ forecast for a drop to 215,000.
In June, the goods trade deficit of the United States extended to $68.33 billion in June.
The evergreen buck was also underpinned by a sink in the British pound because Brexit-related angst kept putting pressure.
The currency pair GBP/USD headed south by 0.48% trading at $1.3127. The currency pair is still above the minimums observed the previous week, when it slumped below $1.30.
The currency pair USD/JPY soared 0.16% trading at Y111.16, USD/CAD added 0.09% hitting C$1.3059.
On Thursday, the major US currency rebounded from its unexpected dive following dismal economic data that sparked fears about the strength of the American economy and also backed the Fed’s intention to leave rates on hold in the nearer future…
On Thursday, Bitcoin was still below the psychologically crucial $4,000 mark without any clear driver…
Having hit $4,000 for the first time for six weeks on expectations that the US Securities and Exchange Commission will soon approve investment vehicles, which would broaden Bitcoin’s appeal, the number one crypto assets rebounded on Wednesday…
Safe havens such as gold and Japanese yen declined as investors sentiment was boosted by eased geopolitical tensions…
On Tuesday, the euro tacked on because market participants waited for reports on inflation and growth in the euro zone, while the Japanese yen went down after Japan’s major bank told it would be more flexible in its huge stimulus program…
On Tuesday, the evergreen buck dived because the common currency bounced off and the UK pound managed to ascend to the day’s maximums reacting to reports that British Prime Minister Theresa May is going to take control of Brexit talks…
Your request is accepted.
A manager will call you shortly.
Internal error. Please try again later
We've emailed a special link to your e-mail.
Click the link to confirm your address and get Beginner Forex book for free.
|
