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After shedding 4% last week, greenback was offered support near the 106 level on DXY in the first half of this week and eventually rallied on Thursday: The rally was likely driven by US October retail sales report. Headline reading beat estimates (+1.3% MoM), core sales also rose faster than expected (+0.9% MoM). The solid […]
Oil Traders Increase Longs The latest CFTC COT institutional positioning data shows that oil traders increased their net long positions last week, taking the total upside position to 274k contracts from 254k contracts prior. With this increase, oil upside exposure is now at its highest level since the first week of July. Disappointingly for bulls, […]
The British pound against the US dollar is aiming up high. The current quote is 1.1910. Sky-rocketing of British inflation and verbal interventions of the Bank of England have given the pound a foothold for growth. No one knows whether for long or not, yet for now the GBP is growing. The British CPI in […]
The market major on Thursday starts growing again. The current quote is 1.0390. The evening statistics from the US turned out mixed. Retail sales volume in October grew by 1.3% m/m, while the forecast had been 0.9%. The growth amounted to 8.3% y/y. Industrial production in the US in October dropped by 0.1% m/m upon […]
Biden Offers Reassurance Over China Perhaps the key takeaway from the G20 meetings so far has been the subtle scaling back of tensions between the US and China. Given the geopolitical tensions linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict as well as the situation between China and Taiwan, this development has come at a good time and […]
The October US retail sales report beat expectations, monthly growth in nominal terms amounted to 1.3% against 1% forecast. Excluding volatile components (fuel, cars), growth amounted to 0.9% against 0.2% forecast. The dollar rallied on the news, but trimmed down gains later, as markets apparently priced in a recovery in risk appetite on a favorable […]