Forex News
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China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday (Jun 2), overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere. The landing elevates China's space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries including the United States are hoping to exploit ...
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A Tesla shareholder filed a lawsuit on Thursday (May 30) accusing CEO Elon Musk of insider trading when he sold over US$7.5 billion of shares of the electric car maker in late 2022, saying the billionaire entrepreneur sold the shares before potentially disappointing production and delivery numbers were made public. Shareholder Michael Perry, in the lawsuit ...
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Inflation and wages are kind of a chicken or egg issue. Do higher prices cause higher wages or do higher wages cause higher prices? I suppose it’s probably a little of both. There is an obvious relationship when you look at the data. Here’s a look at year-over-year wage growth versus trailing twelve-month inflation going back to 1965: chart Wages grow ...
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The main drivers behind the remarkably resilient American consumer are losing steam at the same time, suggesting a recent pullback in household demand may be more than just a one-off. Real disposable incomes have risen only modestly over the past year. The saving rate now stands at a 16-month low as households have mostly exhausted the extra pile of cash ...
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Q1 figures for Australian GDP are released on Wednesday, and if Q4 figures are anything to go by, it could be a lacklustre affair. If growth continues to soften, it further cements the case for the RBA to not hike, but we still seem no closer to them discussing cuts unless we see a material breakdown of incoming data. AUD/USD went on to rally 1.8% over the ...
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At the time of writing, the GBP/EUR exchange rate traded at around €1.1731, virtually unchanged from Friday’s opening levels. The Euro (EUR) began the week undermined by European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate cut bets, as ECB policymaker Klaas Knot echoed his colleagues recent sentiments that the ECB will begin unwinding its monetary policy in June. ...
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The main drivers behind the remarkably resilient American consumer are losing steam at the same time, suggesting a recent pullback in household demand may be more than just a ...
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Two interest rate moves are up for decision this week, US jobs data for May, Chinese trade data (also for May), and Australian economic growth for the first quarter. Additionally, ...
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At the time of writing, the GBP/EUR exchange rate traded at around €1.1731, virtually unchanged from Friday’s opening levels. The Euro (EUR) began the week undermined by European ...
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post: FED'S KASHKARI: LIKELY WE HOLD RATES FOR QUITE A WHILE: FT FED'S KASHKARI: SHOULD ERR ON TAKING OUR TIME TO CUT RATES: FT FED'S KASHKARI: US RESILIENCE REQUIRES HIGH RATES FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD: FT FED'S KASHKARI: COSTS OF PREMATURELY DECLARING VICTORY ARE HIGH: FT
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post: *OPEC+ AGREES TO EXTEND GROUP-WIDE AND VOLUNTARY CUTS: DELEGATES post: No objections by any member states to the extension of the group cuts to the 3rd quarter of 2025 (the cut amounts to around 2.2 million bpd) #OOTT #Opec post: under this agreement the UAE will be getting a higher baseline #OOTT #Opec 37th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting In light of the continued commitment of the OPEC and non-OPEC Participating Countries in the Declaration of Cooperation (DoC) to achieve and sustain a stable oil market, and to provide long-term guidance and transparency for the market, and in line with the approach of being precautious, proactive, and pre-emptive, which has been consistently adopted by OPEC and non-OPEC Participating Countries in the Declaration of Cooperation, the Participating Countries decided to: 1. Reaffirm the Framework of the Declaration of Cooperation, signed on 10 December 2016 and further endorsed in subsequent meetings; as well as the Charter of Cooperation, signed on 2 July 2019. Extend the level of overall crude oil production for OPEC and non-OPEC Participating Countries in the DoC as per the attached table starting 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2025. Extend the assessment period by the three independent sources to the end of November 2025, to be used as guidance for 2026 reference production levels. Reaffirm the mandate of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) to closely review global oil market conditions, oil production levels, and the level of conformity with the DoC, assisted by the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) and the OPEC Secretariat. The JMMC meeting is to be held every two months. Hold the OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting (ONOMM) every six months in accordance with the ordinary OPEC scheduled conference. Grant the JMMC the authority to hold additional meetings, or to request an OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting at any time to address market developments, whenever deemed necessary. Reaffirm that the DoC conformity is to be monitored considering crude oil production, using the average of the approved seven secondary sources, and according to the methodology applied for OPEC Member Countries. Reiterate the critical importance of adhering to full conformity and compensation mechanism.Production table - 37th ONOMM table Notes: (1) UAE required production has been increased by 300 kbd. This increase will be phased in gradually starting January 2025 until the end of September 2025. (2) The required production level is before applying any additional production adjustments.
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Business conditions in the Chinese manufacturing sector improved at a more pronounced rate midway into the second quarter of 2024. Production growth accelerated amid rising new ...
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WTI Crude Oil: chart The West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil market has been all over the place during the trading week, and even sold off quite violently on Friday. However, we remain in the same general vicinity that we have been in for a while, and I think at this point we are more likely than not to continue to see a lot of volatility and of course a ...
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