February 2021

Why Do Most Currencies Trade Against the Dollar?

US and European markets rally on Tuesday, USD continues its current momentum trend versus its main peers

European markets rallied from the London open during Tuesday’s sessions. The latest GDP figures for the Eurozone and individual countries provided investor optimism that if the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts are successful, growth will quickly re-appear. GDP for the Euro Area beat forecasts coming in at -0.7% for Q2 2020 after a revision for Q3 revealed […]

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US Dollar Stabilizes as Focus Shifts to Thanksgiving, Data Releases

Dollar bears start weakening!

The U.S. Dollar moved near a seven-week high on Tuesday, capitalizing on a sell-off in the Euro. The day before, the single currency fell after bans imposed to fight the coronavirus reduced consumer spending in Germany. The squeezing of short positions on the U.S. Dollar also played a role since their number was too large.

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Silver Begins To Outshine Gold

Silver prints an eight-year high, US factory growth slows, oil rebounds from early session losses

Silver’s market price rose to an eight-year intraday high of just over $30.00 per ounce during Monday’s trading sessions, breaching R3 before slipping under that critical psyche handle, ending the day trading close to R2 and at $28.78, up 6.79%. Analysts and market commentators suggested that the cohort of Reddit activist traders, who allegedly helped

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Nervous investors and traders will look for monetary policy instructions from the Fed, BoE and RBA to underpin sentiment

Last week’s trading sessions ended with many global equity markets selling off as the risk-on sentiment dominating investor thinking over recent months suddenly evaporated. The SPX 500 closed Friday’s New York session down –2.22% on the day and –3.58% weekly and the NASDAQ 100 –2.36% down during the Friday session and –3.57% weekly. The NASDAQ

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