Friday, 18 September 2026
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The Australian Dollar began the week on a lower note, trading with a 0.28% loss against the Greenback as risk appetite soured after the US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Iran-linked entities. At the tim…
Gold (XAU/USD) stabilizes below $4,650 heading into the European session, stalling its intraday retracement slide from the $4,700 neighborhood, or the highest since May 14, touched earlier this Tuesday. Despite tamer Ju…
OCBC’s Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong note that South Korean Won (KRW) has extended its rally, with USD/KRW briefly touching 1380 on exporter and corporate US Dollar (USD) selling and a softer USD backdrop. While th…
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Can Japanese Yen Futures Survive the 160 Threshold?Macroeconomic Pressures and the 160 Defense Line Japanese Yen futures are testing critical technical levels once again. Speculators are actively pushing the exchange ra…
FluidStack, the AI cloud startup founded in 2017 as an “Airbnb for GPUs,” is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation – more than doubling its $7.5 billion valuation from just months earlier. The round, …
The GBP/JPY consolidates near familiar levels around 217.00 on Monday, as risk aversion dominates markets, with flows moving into haven assets like the US Dollar and Gold amid uncertainty over the Middle East conflict.
The EUR/JPY trades horizontally on Monday as market participants remain reluctant to push the cross higher amid fears of potential intervention by Japanese authorities, even though they have remained shut following the …
The shared currency registers minimal losses of 0.13% versus the US Dollar as EUR/USD fails to surpass 1.1700, exacerbating the drop towards the 1.1660 area, despite retaining its current neutral-to-upward bias.
The Euro (EUR) treads water against the Pound Sterling (GBP) on Monday, holding in the mid-0.8500s after struggling to sustain its push toward 0.8580 last week.
The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) is holding firm against the US Dollar (USD) at the time of writing, with NZD/USD consolidating near its recent multi-month highs, just south of the 0.6000 handle. The Kiwi has barely budged …
Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret note that the Japanese Yen (JPY) is slightly softer versus the US Dollar (USD), with USD/JPY trading between 158.00 support and resistance in the upper‑159s. Market …
The same department that spent the morning telling the bond market it has roughly 950 billion Dollars available to hold long yields down will spend the afternoon announcing sanctions designed to tighten the oil chokepoi…
The Pound Sterling (GBP) holds firm against the US Dollar (USD) at around 1.3640 on Monday, with traders eyeing speeches by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran’s sanctions later in the day and by Federal Reserve…
GBP/USD is trading at 1.3675 in the early London session, holding the midrange of the 1.3600s and sitting just beneath six-month highs. That marks the fourth consecutive session of gains for sterling against the dollar,…
A currency whose central bank has held five times, prices no cut this year and still carries an increase by December should not be sitting at the bottom of its three-month range. The Dollar Index trades near 99.00, up 0…
USD/CHF edges higher on Monday as the US Dollar (USD) steadies after last week’s sell-off sparked by the US Treasury’s announcement to increase longer-dated bond buybacks. Market attention has now shifted back to US-Ira…
Gold (XAU/USD) price resumes its advance on Monday and refreshes three-month highs at $4,681 as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent crosses the wires to reveal sanctions on Iran-linked entities, while investors await a …
Gold (XAU/USD) extends its advance on Monday, building on the strong rally seen last week following the US Treasury’s buyback announcement. At the time of writing, XAU/USD trades around $4,644, up nearly 0.90% on the da…
Societe Generale analysts highlight that Gold has broken out of a small base formation, reclaimed its 200‑DMA and is enjoying an extended rebound. The move is framed within broader Dollar debasement concerns and rising …
Gold (XAU/USD) maintains a bullish bias on Monday and trades near its highest levels since mid-May. The precious metal remains supported by fading expectations of an imminent interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve (F…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad highlights that New Zealand retail sales volumes unexpectedly fell in Q2, driven by fuel and motor-related categories, while core sales still rose, showing resilient domestic…
ING’s Chris Turner highlights futures data showing asset managers and leveraged funds adding Euro exposure, leaving speculators underweight. He notes recovering German IFO and Eurozone PMIs, and sees limited need for EU…
The Australian Dollar (AUD) ticks lower against the US Dollar (USD) on Monday, but maintains its broader bullish tone, with the AUD/USD pair trading at 0.7164, a few pips shy of the 12-week high of 0.7180 hit last Frida…