Thursday, 22 October 2026
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The EUR/USD pair faces some selling pressure to near 1.1215 during the early Asian trading hours on Monday. The Euro (EUR) weakens against the US Dollar (USD) amid fiscal risks in France after the French debt risk premi…
The USD/JPY pair reverses a modest Asian session dip on Monday and climbs back above the 158.00 mark in the last hour, though it remains confined in a familiar range.
US President Donald Trump said he cut a diesel export deal with Russia and blocked numerous sanctions because he doesn’t want to drive Vladimir Putin away from peace talks with Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Assistant Governor Chris Kent said on Monday that reasonable indication neutral rates are increasing domestically and globally, adding that it’s difficult to pinpoint neutral rate amid hi…
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The dollar starts the final week of September regaining ground against the yen. USD/JPY trades at 157.746, up 0.4985 or 0.32% on the session, after bouncing from a Monday low of 156.95. The pair printed 157.79 during As…
GBP/USD is trading at 1.3366, up 0.69% on the day. Other quotes put the pair at 1.3369, up 0.70%, or 93 pips. The pound has moved steadily higher through the European session. At 6:15 a.m. ET it was at 1.3341, up 0.51%.…
Gold (XAU/USD) price retreats about 0.10%, trading at $4,163 on Friday, poised for a weekly loss as traders assess recent US inflation data, which, although hotter than foreseen, led investors to trim their hawkish bets…
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) strategis Claire Fan and Abbey Xu expect Canada’s headline Consumer Price Index to remain at 3% year-over-year in September, supported by higher gasoline and furnace Oil prices. They see moder…
OCBC strategists Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong highlight that Taiwan Dollar (TWD) has extended losses on heavy foreign equity outflows, partly retracing into the Asian close amid talk of CBC leaning against depreci…
Royal Bank of Canada economists Claire Fan and Abbey Xu assess upcoming Canadian inflation data and the Bank of Canada’s Q3 Business Outlook Survey ahead of the Oct. 28 policy decision. They highlight persistent energy-…
Standard Chartered’s Chong Hoon Park expects the Bank of Korea to keep its base rate at 3.00% through October and November, despite a less favourable inflation-growth mix. The report highlights sticky underlying inflati…
The US dollar fell 0.25 per cent to 101.77 on Friday. The drop puts the greenback on course for a 0.45 per cent weekly decline as debt strains across the tech sector rattled global markets.
EUR/USD struggles to extend its gains on Friday as the US Dollar (USD) steadies after coming under heavy pressure on Thursday. At the time of writing, the pair trades around 1.1230, below an intraday high of 1.1269, but…
The Pound Sterling (GBP) advances against the US Dollar (USD) on Friday after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Kevin Warsh didn’t provide forward guidance on interest rates, while expectations that the Bank of England (BoE) …
Scotiabank’s Global FX Strategy team notes EUR/USD is supported by modest narrowing in front-end Eurozone–US spreads following dovish-leaning comments from Fed Chair Warsh. French OAT/Bund spreads remain wide but are se…
EUR/USD extends its recovery on Friday, trading around 1.1255 at the time of writing, up 0.32% on the day. The Euro (EUR) continues to strengthen against the US Dollar (USD), rebounding from a 16-month low of 1.1113 rea…
Fed Chair Warsh's last word before the quiet period was that he doesn't prejudge meetings, and the Dollar Index is lower on it, though the drop stalled near 101.60 twice. It fell from just above 102.00 to about 101.85 i…
USD/CAD extends its decline on Friday as broad US Dollar (USD) weakness lifts the Canadian Dollar (CAD) to its highest level in more than two weeks. At the time of writing, the pair trades around 1.4138, after reaching …
The Mexican Peso (MXN) losses ground against the Greenback on Friday amid broader US Dollar (USD) weakness, as Mexico’s economic docket is absent, leaving traders leaning into US dynamics. At the time of writing, USD/MX…
ING’s Chris Turner notes that the Dollar is benefiting from a flatter US yield curve as hot inflation data keeps short-dated rates elevated while long-dated Treasuries recover. He argues this backdrop typically favors t…
The US Dollar (USD) has depreciated sharply against most of its major peers over the last two days, hammered by a mix of lower US Treasury yields and dovish comments by Federal Reserve (Fed) officials. The US Dollar Ind…
Commerzbank’s Volkmar Baur describes a double bind for the New Zealand Dollar as rising monthly price indices signal higher CPI, while electronic card data show stagnating retail spending and likely negative real consum…