Thursday, 17 September 2026
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The AUD/JPY cross trades in positive territory around 110.90 during the early European session on Thursday. Elevated energy prices due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East weigh on the Japanese Yen (JPY) against t…
The price for Gold stood at 13,226.30 Indian Rupees (INR) per gram, up compared with the INR 13,139.72 it cost on Wednesday.
The NZD/USD pair gains some positive traction during the Asian session on Thursday in reaction to New Zealand's better-than-expected GDP print, snapping a three-day losing streak to its lowest level since July 9, touche…
United States (US) Treasury Yields erase an earlier decline during the early European session on Thursday. Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate hike and escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East could lift US T…
Japanese Finance Minister (FM) Satsuki Katayama said on Thursday that official will review budget requests, control debt issuance at a level that can gain market credibility. Katayama also expect the Bank of Japan (BoJ)…
Shares edged higher in Asia on Thursday, tracking US stock futures, as traders digest the Federal Reserve's (Fed) hawkish tilt ahead of other key central bank events. The Bank of England (BoE) is scheduled to announce i…
EUR/JPY declines after three days of gains, trading around 178.90 during Asian hours on Thursday. Technical analysis of the daily chart shows the currency cross trading within a descending channel, keeping the overall b…
Gold (XAU/USD) sticks to its modest recovery gains through the Asian session on Thursday, though it lacks bullish conviction and trades below the $4,300 mark. The US Dollar (USD) touches a fresh high since late July ami…
The Bank of Japan meets on Friday, and the market has a quarter-point hike to 1.25% priced at 100%. The Yen has been falling anyway. USD/JPY is up three sessions in a row, Wednesday's gain was the biggest of the three, …
Trump posted on Wednesday that US rates should be 1% or less and that the country has the strongest credit anywhere. He also wrote that cutting off trade with every nation the US runs a deficit with would earn at least …
New Zealand reports second-quarter growth later on Wednesday, or early on Thursday depending on where you are relative to the international date line, and the forecast is 0.1% for the quarter, down from 0.8% in the firs…
The European Central Bank (ECB) raised its deposit rate to 2.50% on September 10, and the Euro has fallen every session since. The Fed raised its own rate to 3.75-4.00% on Wednesday, by the same quarter point, and the d…
NZD/USD has dropped in six straight sessions. The run started near 0.5900 on September 8, went through both long-run averages near 0.5850 early in the run, and the last three sessions have been the biggest of the lot. T…
Crux AI, the new cloud computing venture tied to Blackstone and Alphabet, is lining up a $22 billion loan from a group of 10 banks to finance purchases of Google’s custom artificial intelligence chips, according to Bloo…
Australia's central bank pays more than the Federal Reserve (Fed) does. The cash rate is 4.35%, the Fed's new range is 3.75-4.00% after Wednesday's quarter-point hike, and most of the big Australian banks expect the RBA…
On November 3, 2025, both the U.S. Department of Justice and Google filed their final post-trial briefs and proposed remedies in the Eastern District of Virginia antitrust case, setting up a critical showdown over how t…
Spot Gold (XAU/USD) is closing Wednesday with losses, trading around $4,250 after hitting an intraday high of $4,366. The bright metal came under strong selling pressure after the United States (US) Federal Open Market …
The Dow Jones Industrial Average trades just above 52,100 and has spent the morning going nowhere, on the day the Federal Reserve is expected to raise its rate for the first time since 2023. That is not indifference. A …
Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret note the Euro (EUR) is consolidating in a tight range around the mid-1.15s as markets await the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). They note Eurozone Industrial P…
Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret report USD/CAD is steady near 1.39 as markets await the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of Canada’s (BoC) summary of deliberations. They note the BoC is likely to…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes GBP/USD is trading heavy near its 200-day moving average as United Kingdom (UK) gilts stabilize. August Consumer Price Index (CPI) slightly exceeded the Bank of England…
Rabobank’s Senior FX Strategist Jane Foley notes the US Dollar (USD) has outperformed G10 peers on expectations the Fed will deliver around 100 bps of tightening over 12 months, but warns this may be excessive. They see…
Robusta coffee prices rose by $82/ton for November 2026 delivery, reaching $3,554/ton with a trading volume of over 15,600 contracts. This upward trend in robusta prices stems from concerns about short-term supply const…
AUD/USD trades in a narrow range on Wednesday as investors hold back from taking strong positions ahead of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy announcement. At the time of writing, AUD/USD trades around 0.7134, …