Market Sentiments
March 26, 2025
President Trump halted the tariffs on Mexico and Canada for 30 days on February 3, 2025, even while Wall Street was bracing itself for the impact. […]
March 25, 2025
The GBP/USD pair, popularly called the cable, declined 1% through 2024. Most of the decline could be attributed to the pound sterling’s depreciation against the USD […]
March 18, 2025
By February 12, 2025, the Euro STOXX 50 had soared 10% year-to-date. This was after the index had the strongest month (January 2025) in two years. […]
February 26, 2025
“The global economy is forecast to grow solidly in 2025 despite trade uncertainty,” says the November 2024 Briefings report by Goldman Sachs. Analysts at the multinational […]
February 21, 2025
Gold hit a record high of $2,805 a week before the US presidential election on November 5, 2024. However, after Donald Trump’s victory was announced, the […]
February 19, 2025
We’ve had an eventful 2024. Over 60 countries elected their leaders, the third Bitcoin halving took place, central banks worldwide shifted their monetary policies. Plus, escalating […]
February 19, 2025
Joe Biden’s exit from the US Presidential race, Kamala Harris’ nomination and finally Donald Trump’s victory, 2024 was a year of unpredictability for the US political […]
February 17, 2025
For the longest time, the US markets have been considered largely insulated from events happening in the rest of the world. However, traders have also long […]
February 14, 2025
“It is a tangible asset you can touch with your hands,” says Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, when asked the reason he […]
January 22, 2025
Gold price and the strength of the US dollar are inversely correlated. This means that when the US dollar strengthens, gold price declines, and vice versa. […]
January 20, 2025
The World Bank has a bearish outlook for commodities in general for 2025, expecting global commodity prices to fall to a five-year low amid “an oil […]
January 17, 2025
The Australian Dollar (AUD) and the Canadian Dollar (CAD) have not had a good run in 2024. The AUD/USD was down 7.25% YTD by December 18, […]
January 13, 2025
OPEC has made the final and deepest cut to its demand growth forecasts for 2024. It now expects global demand to rise by 1.61 million barrels […]
January 10, 2025
The Hong Kong stock market saw a major turnaround through 2024. This is because the Hong Kong indices broke a four-year losing streak. Rising trading volumes […]
December 18, 2024
It has been a mixed year for the markets in 2024. The global economy recovered through the first half of the year while inflation gradually cooled, […]
December 9, 2024
The Bank of England (BoE) cut interest rates for the second time in 2024 on November 7. The rate was reduced by 25 basis points to […]
December 6, 2024
The Japanese yen dropped to a multi-month low in the second week of November 2024, after outperforming all other currencies in July. The currency has had […]
November 12, 2024
Precious metals have historically exhibited a direct linear relationship with inflation data. The surprise that came in October was the easing of US Inflation still saw […]
November 11, 2024
Wall Street indices hit record highs while the US dollar saw its largest gain in 8 years when Donald Trump was re-elected as the President of […]
November 7, 2024
Gold price has been on a bull run this year, rising around 34% from January through October. According to Goldman Sachs Research, the yellow metal is […]