FX Weekly Recap: March 3 – 7, 2025
It was a jam-packed trading week as top-tier economic data, an ECB rate cut, escalating trade tensions, and Trump’s accusations of currency manipulation fueled volatility across FX markets.
It was a jam-packed trading week as top-tier economic data, an ECB rate cut, escalating trade tensions, and Trump’s accusations of currency manipulation fueled volatility across FX markets.
The British pound declined to around $1.3300 against the US dollar on Wednesday, as UK inflation undershot expectations and reinforced market convictions that the Bank of England (BoE) will cut interest rates on Thursday. The annual Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate slowed to 3.2% in November, missing forecasts of 3.5% and falling below the…
2025.01.17 2025.01.17 S&P 500 Found a Fly in the Ointment. Forecast as of 17.01.2025 Dmitri Demidenkohttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/dmitri-demidenko/ Donald Trump’s policies seem entirely favorable to the S&P 500, but that is not so. Although deregulation and fiscal stimuli will accelerate GDP and boost corporate profits, there is also a fly in the ointment. Let’s discuss it and make…
USD inflation interest rates, and economic policy remain a persistent challenge. As 2024 closes, the interplay of these factors is shaping the USD’s trajectory amid a complex macroeconomic environment.This week, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index, is in focus, with expectations that core inflation will remain sticky. Core Consumer…
Weak U.S. Job Growth Continued But Unemployment Rate Unexpectedly Slipped Back to 4.4% January 9, 2026 In a week full of data releases, the most eagerly awaited report from the get-go had been today’s U.S. December employment situation report from the Labor Department, which presented mixed results relative to market expectations but an overall soft…
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