Oil prices fell on Monday as a stronger dollar, fears over soaring COVID-19 cases around the world and the slow pace of vaccination against the virus outweighed a better-than-expected quarterly rebound for China’s economy. Brent crude was down 16 cents, or 0.3%, at $54.94 per barrel at 1445 GMT, and West Texas Intermediate U.S. crude
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Commodity currencies remain generally weak today on mixed market sentiments. On the other hand, Yen, Swiss Franc and Dollar are the strongest. Euro remains soft too, but recovery in crosses, in particular against Sterling, is limiting its downside for the moment. Gold also stabilizes back in prior range after initial selloff. With US markets on
The EU looks to extend the deadline from the end of February to some time in April instead, according to RTE News RTE’s Europe editor, Tony Connelly, tweets on the matter: The EU will seek an extension to the deadline by which the free trade agreement with the UK must be ratified, @rtenews has learned.
Been a hodler? My BTCUSD longs were sold well before the $20,000 peak was hit last year on a trend line break. See here and here. However, I have had a number of questions posed to me about BTCUSD. Some folks have bought in at very low prices and are sitting pretty with some hefty
Soybean prices on Monday fell by Re 1 to Rs 4,749 per quintal in futures market as participants cut down their positions on weak spot demand. On the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, soybean contracts for January delivery declined by Re 1, or 0.02 per cent, to Rs 4,749 per quintal with an open interest
Dollar opens the week generally higher, as supported by comments from former Fed chair Janet Yellen. Though, at this point, Yen mildly stronger while Swiss Franc is also firm. The triple argues that there is some underlying cautiousness in investor sentiments, despite solid Q4 China data. That’s also reflected in the general weakness in commodity
What the turn lower in UK cases means The UK reported 38,598 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, which is the lowest since December 27 and the clearest sign yet that the UK has gotten the upper hand on the worrisome variant that caused the latest round of lockdowns. It’s a sign that either the variant
Selloff in Euro against commodity currencies appear to be a main theme today, in otherwise mixed markets. Dollar seems not too bothered by the pull back in treasury yields overnight and stays generally inside last week’s range. Sterling is struggling to extend gain despite staying as the strongest one for the week. Yen and Swiss
16 Republican Senators could ban Trump from running again Pelosi said she will send the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week. I had thought that the idea would die with Biden’s inauguration but that’s not going to be the case. A big reason is because if he’s convicted, Schumer now says they will
BOC is widely expected to leave its overnight rate at the effective lower bound of 0.25% in January. The size of asset purchases will also stay unchanged at CAD4B/week. Over the past month, there has been market speculations about the possibility of a micro rate cut since November. While such a move is unlikely at
CFTC commitments of traders: EUR longs move back up to December highs Coming Up! Title text for next article LON SDNY+11 NY -5 TYO +9 GMT Weekly forex futures positioning data from the CFTC EUR long 156K vs 143K long last week. Long increased by 13K GBP long 13K vs 4K long last week. Longs
Gold prices gained Rs 286 to Rs 48,690 per 10 gram in the national capital on Friday following recovery in international price of the precious metal and rupee depreciation, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yellow metal had closed at Rs 48,404 per 10 gram. Silver prices also jumped Rs 558 to
Sterling ended the week as the best performing one. But the late selloff, and rejection by resistance against Dollar and Yen, suggest that the latter too were in the driving seat. Weakness was apparently see in Euro, New Zealand Dollar, and to a lesser extent Australian. Dollar could be further building up the case for
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By Swansy Afonso, Haslinda Amin and Rishaad Salamat Gold demand in the world’s second-biggest user will rebound this year after collapsing in 2020 as the rollout of vaccines pushes life back closer to normal, according to the World Gold Council. Some of the weddings and festive buying that had been postponed because of the pandemic
As suggested in the CFTC Commitments of Traders report in the week ended January 12, NET SHORT of USD Index futures fell -1 045 contracts to 14 952. Speculative long positions dropped -941 contracts, and short positions decreased -1 986 contracts. USD rebounded as talks about Fed’s balance sheet tapering rekindled. However, we do not
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Market regulator Sebi has relaxed the computation of gross exposure norms for mutual funds which trade on exchange traded commodity derivatives (ETCDs) contracts. The regulator clarified that hedged or offsetting positions taken during the course of trade will not be considered while computing the gross exposure of ETCDs for the funds. For eg, if a