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Oil and gold head lower January 14, 2021SharePrint Profit-taking hits oil prices Oil prices beat a modest retreat overnight with official US Crude Inventory data broadly neutral. Headline crude inventories fell more than expected, but distillate and gasoline inventories rose more than expected. That was enough to spark speculative longs to lock in some profits with Brent crude and WTI’s relative strength indices (RSIs) having been in overbought territory for most of this week. Brent crude eas...

The return of the Queen January 14, 2021SharePrint The Trump impeachment vote was overshadowed by momentous scenes at 0530 this morning in South Jakarta, as Queen Cricket returned to her palace. The unannounced royal trip, lasting two nights, led to frantic searches of the wider realm by her servants. Her feline highness announced her arrival loudly at the front door of the palace in the early hours. In other news, financial markets diverged once again overnight. US equities traced out a modest...

Asia stocks boosted by Wall Street January 13, 2021SharePrint Wall Street comeback lifts Asian equities The range-trading nature of this week saw Wall Street rise modestly overnight, mostly because US yields remained unchanged. There is nervousness out there in the equity markets, with its stretched valuations on traditional methodologies. Three Federal Reserve officials spoke overnight, and from what I can tell, all were very dovish. All were optimistic for an acceleration of the US recovery ...

Bitcoin fell as far as $33,447, its lowest since Jan. 6. Ethereum which often moves in tandem with bitcoin, fell as much as 20% to a one-week low of $1,007.51.

Canadian dollar starts week with slide January 11, 2021SharePrint The Canadian dollar is deep in red territory in the Monday session. Currently, USD/CAD is trading at 1.2767, up 0.63% on the day. On the fundamental front, it’s a quiet start to the week, with no economic data out of the US or Canada. The Bank of Canada released its Business Outlook survey, which is released on a quarterly basis. US dollar rebounds The US dollar is showing some newfound strength and this has continued on Monday...

Higher US yields boost dollar January 11, 2021SharePrint The US dollar continues to squeeze higher Rising US yields saw the US dollar continue to squeeze higher on Friday, with the dollar index rising 0.30% to 90.10. That theme has continued today, with the dollar index marching another 0.35% higher to 90.40 in Asia. The dollar index has critical resistance at 91.00. A daily close above that level signals that the US dollar short squeeze had the potential to extend much further. The pro-cyclica...