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American mortgage applications to purchase a home and to have it refinanced demonstrated their steepest weekly slump for four months due to the fact some mortgage rates jumped to one-month maximums, in step with higher bond gains…

American labor markets were still tight due to the fact that US businesses struggled to gain skilled employees and wages rallied a bit, as the Fed reported on Wednesday in its latest report on the US economy…

On Wednesday, gold was nearly intact, sticking with a four-month minimum because better-than-anticipated economic data from China kept global appetite for risky assets healthy and also tamed demand for havens…

On Tuesday, the evergreen buck was trading sideways, having slumped on Monday following remarks from the Fed’s Charles Evans suggesting that there won’t be any change in interest rates for more than a year…

On Friday, the evergreen buck slumped in Asia notwithstanding better-than-anticipated labour as well as inflation data published overnight…

On Thursday, the yellow metal has been done in by the key US bank, as anticipated…

On Thursday, Wall Street's key indexes went down, affected by diving healthcare stocks, although gains in financials ahead of big bank yield helped to pare losses…

On Tuesday, Wall Street's key indexes went up because Apple as well as chipmakers spurred tech stocks, while higher crude prices underpinned energy companies…

In February, American homebuilding went down more than anticipated due to the fact that construction of single-family houses went down to an almost two-year minimum, providing more evidence of a steep deceleration in economic activity early in 2019…

On Tuesday, the evergreen buck managed to go up due to the fact that bond gains rebounded, thus soothing fears over the health of the American economy despite dismal housing data…

On Friday, gold jumped due to the fact that dismal data in the euro zone drove traders to the safe-haven asset…

On Thursday, the evergreen buck faced heavy losses in Asia because the key US bank shocked the financial markets by giving up all of its plans to have rates lifted in 2019, which appears to be an indication that its three-year campaign to stabilize its…