Next Week’s Menu: December 13-19, 2025 December 12, 2025 Central Banks: Monetary policy stances will be reviewed at the European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, and also in Norway, Sweden, Indonesia, Hungary, Thailand, Mexico, Russia, Czech Republic and Jamaica. Fed officials speaking publicly during the period include Miran, Waller, Williams, and Bostic….
Central banks took center stage this week, delivering a quick lesson on how shifting policy divergence can send currency traders scrambling to adjust positions. The Federal Reserve’s Wednesday rate cut became the week’s defining moment—not just for the quarter-point reduction itself, but for Chair Powell’s surprisingly characterization of inflation as primarily tariff-driven and transitory. That…
The currency markets finished the week on a mixed note. While the US Dollar found support against risk-sensitive currencies like the Australian and New Zealand Dollars—mirroring the sell-off in the Nasdaq—it struggled to gain ground against the Euro and Canadian Dollar. The greenback’s performance reflects a market caught between “safe-haven” flows and specific regional strength….
Log in to today’s North American session Market wrap for December 12 When you thought things were going to be straightforward at least until NFP, you were wrong. Fed speak can have immense effects after Rate Decisions, as seen with today’s action. Austan Goolsbee and Jeffrey Schmid, the two dissenters from Wednesday’s decision, expressed their…
United States CFTC Oil NC Net Positions up to 692K from previous 74.9K Source link
Eurozone CFTC EUR NC Net Positions up to €990K from previous €91.8K Source link
United States CFTC S&P 500 NC Net Positions fell from previous $-163.9K to $-1474K Source link
Australia CFTC AUD NC Net Positions fell from previous $-71.6K to $-759K Source link
Japan CFTC JPY NC Net Positions up to ¥312K from previous ¥51.3K Source link
End of Day Market Summary: Tech Sector Weighs on Wall Street US stocks closed lower to end the trading week, as a sharp selloff in the technology sector dragged down the broader market. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to secure a gain for the week, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq succumbed to profit-taking…