Thursday, 29 October 2026
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In the Asian trading session on Tuesday, Japan Finance Minister (FM) Satsuki Katayama highlighted the need to communicate to financial and Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) markets regarding the administration’s intentio…
The USD/CAD pair enters a bullish consolidation phase near a two-week high, touched during the Asian session on Tuesday, and currently trades around 1.4120. The fundamental backdrop supports prospects for further upside…
British Pound Sterling trades beneath 1.3300 against the Dollar on Monday, roughly 0.3% lower on the day and back at ground it last held in the opening days of July. It gets there at the end of the strongest run of Brit…
GBP/USD edges lower after opening at a bullish gap, remaining within positive territory and trading around 1.3290 during the Asian hours on Tuesday. The currency pair is under pressure as the US Dollar (USD) stabilizes,…
AUD/USD inches higher after recovering its daily losses, trading around 0.6990 during the Asian hours on Tuesday. Traders are keeping a close watch on scheduled remarks from Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Mich…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes that USD/SGD is consolidating around 1.2900 after pulling back from near 1.3000, as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unexpectedly tightened policy for a second…
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the benchmark US Crude Oil price – is seen consolidating the previous day's heavy losses and trading around the $81.00 mark, just above a one-week high set during the Asian session on Tue…
OCBC’s Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong expect USD/CNH to stay broadly rangebound near term, with the daily People's Bank of China (PBoC) fix clustered around 6.79 and acting as an anchor rather than a directional sig…
Speaking at the Anika Foundation Fundraising Lunch in Sydney on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Michele Bullock said that the “key question is whether tightening already delivered is enough to slow inf…
The Australian Dollar trades just beneath 0.7000 on Monday, up around 0.1%, having covered less than 30 pips between its session high and its session low. For the better part of a fortnight the market has tried to make …
MUFG’s Lloyd Chan notes that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) delivered a second consecutive tightening by slightly increasing the Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) slope, reinforcin…
On Monday, late in the North American session, US President Donald Trump stated that there was a good inflation report recently, adding that costs were falling rapidly and that prices should drop significantly once the …
On Monday, US President Donald Trump grabbed the headlines as investors awaited monetary policy meetings by three of the eight major central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan.
WTI Crude Oil trades just above $81.00 on Monday, down close to 9% from Friday's close near $89.00, having gapped more than $5.00 lower at the open and spent the session extending rather than repairing it. Brent broke b…
The Japanese Yen trades a little firmer on Monday, with USD/JPY down 0.05% and sitting short of 164.00 after last week's high stalled a hundredth of a Yen beneath the figure. Markets have spent a fortnight waiting for T…
Commerzbank’s Charlie Lay notes Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unexpectedly tightened policy for a second meeting, slightly increasing the Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) slope and s…
Jay Clayton, often in circuitous fashion, avoided saying Joe Biden won 2020 race against Donald Trump during his US Senate confirmation hearing.
Silver (XAG/USD) reverses part of its earlier gains on Monday as the US Dollar (USD) rebounds after opening the week with a bearish gap following a temporary pause in attacks between the United States (US) and Iran.
NZD/USD trades near the 0.5790 area on Monday, struggling to extend its recovery despite modest weakness in the US Dollar (USD). The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) receives some support from the sharp decline in oil prices, a…
BNP Paribas strategists see Japan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowing to 0.8% in 2026 from 1.1% in 2025 as higher inflation and energy-related costs weigh on activity, partly offset by fiscal support and AI (A…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) trades near 52,200, up around 250 points, on Monday after a session that handed it the month's cleanest bullish catalyst and then took most of it back. The peace bid carried the i…
Gold price registers gains of 0.58% as Washington pauses attacks on Tehran, while US President Donald Trump opened the door for a resumption in negotiations. This, along with falling US Treasury yields, is a tailwind fo…
The EUR/JPY holds firm around 163.70 on Monday as the Japanese Yen strengthens, with investors cautious about opening fresh hawkish bets amid fears of intervention in the foreign exchange market.
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad reports that the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) and Jakarta equities underperformed after Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo unexpectedly resigned two years before his term ends,…