Saturday, 19 September 2026
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West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the benchmark US Crude Oil price – is seen consolidating the previous day's heavy losses and trading around the $81.00 mark, just above a one-week high set during the Asian session on Tue…
Speaking at the Anika Foundation Fundraising Lunch in Sydney on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Michele Bullock said that the “key question is whether tightening already delivered is enough to slow inf…
Gold (XAU/USD) maintains its offered tone through the Asian session on Tuesday and currently trades just below $4,050, down 0.85% for the day. This follows the previous day's failure to find acceptance above the $4,100 …
On Monday, late in the North American session, US President Donald Trump stated that there was a good inflation report recently, adding that costs were falling rapidly and that prices should drop significantly once the …
The USD/CAD pair enters a bullish consolidation phase near a two-week high, touched during the Asian session on Tuesday, and currently trades around 1.4120. The fundamental backdrop supports prospects for further upside…
AUD/USD inches higher after recovering its daily losses, trading around 0.6990 during the Asian hours on Tuesday. Traders are keeping a close watch on scheduled remarks from Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Mich…
OCBC’s Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong expect USD/CNH to stay broadly rangebound near term, with the daily People's Bank of China (PBoC) fix clustered around 6.79 and acting as an anchor rather than a directional sig…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes that USD/SGD is consolidating around 1.2900 after pulling back from near 1.3000, as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unexpectedly tightened policy for a second…
WTI Crude Oil trades just above $81.00 on Monday, down close to 9% from Friday's close near $89.00, having gapped more than $5.00 lower at the open and spent the session extending rather than repairing it. Brent broke b…
British Pound Sterling trades beneath 1.3300 against the Dollar on Monday, roughly 0.3% lower on the day and back at ground it last held in the opening days of July. It gets there at the end of the strongest run of Brit…
Jay Clayton, often in circuitous fashion, avoided saying Joe Biden won 2020 race against Donald Trump during his US Senate confirmation hearing.
The Japanese Yen trades a little firmer on Monday, with USD/JPY down 0.05% and sitting short of 164.00 after last week's high stalled a hundredth of a Yen beneath the figure. Markets have spent a fortnight waiting for T…
Commerzbank’s Charlie Lay notes Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unexpectedly tightened policy for a second meeting, slightly increasing the Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) slope and s…
The US Dollar (USD) traded mostly unchanged on Monday as a temporary pause in hostilities between the United States and Iran reduces demand for safe-haven assets. The US Dollar Index (DXY) traded lower earlier in the se…
Silver (XAG/USD) reverses part of its earlier gains on Monday as the US Dollar (USD) rebounds after opening the week with a bearish gap following a temporary pause in attacks between the United States (US) and Iran.
On Monday, US President Donald Trump grabbed the headlines as investors awaited monetary policy meetings by three of the eight major central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan.
MUFG’s Lloyd Chan notes that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) delivered a second consecutive tightening by slightly increasing the Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) slope, reinforcin…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) trades near 52,200, up around 250 points, on Monday after a session that handed it the month's cleanest bullish catalyst and then took most of it back. The peace bid carried the i…
The Pound Sterling retreats by 0.13% even though the Greenback is flat during the day. Risk appetite shifted sour on news that a Chinese state-backed company is producing chipmaking machines, prompting a sell-off in ASM…
Geoff Yu at BNY sees Latin American (LatAm) assets benefiting again from improved terms of trade for energy and soft commodity exporters, with strong real-rate anchors supporting currencies and duration. However, he war…
Commerzbank’s Dr. Jörg Krämer argues that high energy prices will continue to weigh on the German economy in the second half of 2026, limiting full-year growth to 0.6%. He notes that the strong Ifo business climate read…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad reports that the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) and Jakarta equities underperformed after Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo unexpectedly resigned two years before his term ends,…
The EUR/JPY holds firm around 163.70 on Monday as the Japanese Yen strengthens, with investors cautious about opening fresh hawkish bets amid fears of intervention in the foreign exchange market.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) US Oil extends its decline on Monday, trading around $82.60 per barrel at the time of writing, down 7.4% on the day. Crude Oil opened the week with a sharp bearish gap after the United Stat…