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The US dollar had one of its best weeks in months. Euro: The single currency fell for the second consecutive week, the first back-to-back loss in Q3. Ahead of the weekend, the Australian dollar, like sterling, traded on both sides of the previous day's range. After rallying al...

The US dollar's eight-week slide against the Chinese yuan, the longest in more than 2 1/2 years, ended this week with about a 0.75% advance. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak will replace the furlough job program, which expires at the end of October, with a new program. The Hou...

China continues to harass Taiwan with incursions into its air defense zone. The bullying practice has escalated in the past week or so. European banks took 174.5 bln euros from the ECB's latest Targeted Long-Term Refinancing Operation. In the UK, Chancellor Sunak canceled the fall...

It used to be that central banks heavily influenced inflation through tools such as interest rates, money supply and bank reserves. However, in a post-COVID-19 world with interest rates close to their lower bounds, this balance may be shifting, with fiscal policy now a much more impor...

Japan's preliminary September PMI was little changed from October, and the composite remained below the 50 boom/bust level. The French PMI showed a similar pattern to the German report, but a bit worse. The US preliminary PMI is expected to follow the European pattern of a continu...

The S&P 500 tumbled for its fourth consecutive, the longest losing streak since February. The dollar strengthened broadly. Asia Pacific shares were lower, led by a 2.4% decline in South Korea and around a 1% loss in China and Taiwan. Gold held yesterday's low near $1882.50. La...

Not surprisingly, China's Prime Loan Rate was left unchanged for the fifth consecutive month at 3.85% and 4.65%, respectively, for the one and five-year benchmarks. S&P is concerned that Spain's political climate may struggle to pass the 2021 budget and continue to press ahead wit...

The major central banks have met, and not one announced fresh policy action. All the brouhaha about the rapid rise of the euro misses that it has been moving sideways for nearly two months. With all the commentary on the euro, it was the yen, whose 1.6% gain last week, led the maj...

The EUR/JPY currency pair, which expresses the value of the euro in terms of the Japanese yen, continues to trade above its 2020 opening price. In mid-January, EUR/JPY set a local high at 122.875, prior to the full emergence of COVID-19 pandemic which sent markets tumbling (including the euro ...

The EUR/AUD currency pair, which expresses the value of the euro in terms of the Australian dollar, has fallen significantly from its recent highs of almost 2.00 in March 2020. The euro drifted downward fairly quickly from its high against the Australian dollar, finding its way back to its pre...