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US equity markets drifted lower, as did the US Dollar, as analysts await the impending announcements of trade deals with the US. Promises of looming trade deals have led to high expectations and a failure to deliver, could cause instability on global markets.
Read more →Markets opened the trading week flat, but confidence is slowly returning, allowing a recovery in equities and the US Dollar. The EUR slipped back to 1.1300, while the GBP dropped back to 1.3250.
Read more →Markets in the US rallied strongly to close out a week of strong gains, brushing off a shock headline US GDP number. US equities rallied into the close for the week, opening the month of May on a positive note.
Read more →May Day went by on a positive note, with markets shrugging off the sharp contraction in US GDP growth, attributing this to an abnormally high jump in imports and cuts in Government expenditure.
Read more →A shock US GDP reading, for Q1, initially put a panic into markets. US equities plummeted on the open, only to recover later in the day, as the numbers were digested. The Q1 US GDP number collapsed into negative territory, reading minus 0.3%, sending shockwaves into markets on the open.
Read more →The market rally was moving on as confidence slowly creeps back. Trade deals with India and Japan appear to be on the near horizon, according to Treasury Secretary Bessent, although the all-important Chinese trade deal, was noticeably not confirmed or discussed.
Read more →Markets opened the week on a cautiously optimistic note, with equities posting small gains across the board. The US Dollar remained soft, with the EUR regaining 1.1350, while the GBP pushing back towards 1.3400.
Read more →Markets in the US rallied to close out a strong week of gains on equity markets and in the US Dollar. Trade talks, between China and the US. were denied by China, but the Trump administration is talking compromise and negotiations.
Read more →The recovery in US equities and the US Dollar continued, boosted by further conciliatory comments from President Trump. Trump assured markets that tariffs imposed on China would not be anywhere near the current 145% and they would have a very good trade deal with the USA.
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