Overview: Concerns that the Delta mutation will slow or even reverse the recovery efforts appear to be sapping risk-taking appetites. Equities are under pressure. Nearly all...
Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF's Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy Authored by Whitney Webb via TheLastAmericanVagabond.com, With many focusing on the recent Cyber...
After the June CPI and PPI surge, the Federal Reserve does not appear to have changed its tune. The price pressures are temporary, and the labor...
Financial markets want to know if the Fed is committed to a sustained inflation overshoot. The bond market flattener trade suggests many market participants think we...
US dollar steady despite fall in yields Despite another fall by US long-dated bond yields and a retreat by tech stocks, the US dollar continues to...
A working paper released in English by the People’s Bank of China cites cryptocurrencies as an important context for the digital yuan’s development and reveals that...
The Federal Reserve Chairman steadied the post-US-inflation ship overnight, reiterating that virus-disrupted price increases among the CPI components would ease in the coming months. Regarding the...
Overview: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand jumped to the front of the queue of central banks adjusting monetary policy by announcing the end of its...
I do take pleasure in being a kiwi on many levels, one of which is the refreshing habit kiwis have of telling it like it is....
Currency markets wait for cue from CPI With a comparatively light news flow overnight, currency markets are also in wait-and-see mode ahead of US inflation this...
There has been a fair bit of catching up to do after the past week spent outside of the financial market’s matrix. The biggest takeaways appear...
Global stocks are all over the place as some indexes fall into correction as others continue to extend higher into record territory. The bond market volatility...
"There is also no doubt in our mind that a major central bank will soon launch a digital currency and we expect this to happen within...
Stocks Soar To All Time High As Bonds, Bullion And Bitcoin Bounce Thursday's mini rout, which started with one of the ugliest market opens in history...
From being labeled impractical to nearing mainstream deployment, the digital yuan can transform the global economic landscape. With each passing day, the list of nations actively...
While Fed Mulls Tapering, China Prepares To Cut Rates As Economy Stalls With the Fed debating whether to keep talking about tapering or finally do something...
Overview: Follow-through dollar selling stalled as key levels were approached, including $1.19 in the euro, $1.3900 in sterling, $0.7600 in the Australian dollar, and CAD1.2300. Sentiment...
The dollar's bounce extended further than we expected, helped by an aggressively hawkish view of the Fed, which has seen the market price in more than...
When looking at cryptocurrencies from a marketing perspective, they present a significant paradigm shift in branding. In the whirl of excitement and debate over where cryptocurrencies...
Here’s what crypto and blockchain experts think about Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s announcement that Bitcoin is now legal tender. Wouter Witvoet, CEO of DeFi Technologies:“In the...
After falling in April and May, the US dollar rebounded in June, gaining against all the major currencies. The move appeared to begin as a technical adjustment...
The US dollar pushes higher The US dollar continues to consolidate its post-FOMC gains, with virus concerns globally also providing some safe-haven support. However, forex markets...
Overview: The dollar is finishing the quarter on firm footing, gaining against most of the major currencies today. The euro is straddling the $1.1900 area, having...
US stocks rallied to record highs and dollar weakness returned as investors shrug off the hawkish tilt given at last week’s FOMC policy decision. A wrath...
The Bank for International Settlements starts backing central bank digital currencies after it gave full approval to the development of the CBDCs because they are aiming...
S&P Futures, Global Stocks Rebound From Friday's Rout Ahead Of Fed Speaker Parade US equity futures and global stocks recovered some of their Friday losses after...
Dollar gains ground on FOMC aftershock The US dollar recorded another impressive rally overnight. The dollar index rose through its 200-DMA at 91.50 on its way...
Overview: A more hawkish than expected Federal Reserve sent the US dollar and interest rates higher and spurred an equity sell-off. The knock-on effect sent ripples...
Futures Coiled Ahead Of Fed Decision, Biden-Putin Summit US equity futures rebounded from a modest overnight drop in a rangebound session, coiled as investors turned cautious...
Overview: The short squeeze that lifted the US dollar ahead of the weekend has seen limited follow-through buying, and instead a consolidative tone emerged. Europe is...