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From vtmarkets.com | 33 hr ago USD/JPY edged lower on Thursday, with a softer US Dollar supporting the Japanese Yen. The pair traded around 162.45, staying close to 40-year highs, as the market remained sensitive to the risk of Tokyo acting in the foreign exchange market. Prior episodes of suspected support were short-lived, with the currency still weighed down by structural pressures …

The US Dollar to Canadian Dollar (USD/CAD) exchange rate continues to trade near 1.4210, with the Canadian Dollar struggling to recover despite some easing in US-Canada interest-rate differentials.

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A week of revamped Middle East tensions has left the dollar broadly unchanged. Oil prices have come back lower, allowing risk sentiment and high-yielding EM FX to rebound. The risk is clearly that markets are too sanguine, but fading has been the successful strategy so far, and markets understandably remain laser-focused on front-end rate differentials USD: Stuck as Markets Fade Geopolitical Risk Markets are taking a decisively optimistic stance on fresh US-Iran tensions. Multiple reports indicate traffic in Hormuz has dropped to almost zero in the past couple of days, and we have seen effectively no intent of de-escalation from…

DBS economists Radhika Rao and Mo Ji project China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to slow from 5.0% year-on-year in Q1 to 4.8% in Q2. They note resilient industrial production and strong export growth driven by AI-related electronics, but highlight weak retail sales, subdued household sentiment, and continued drag from declining property prices and falling fixed asset investment.AI exports offset weak consumption”Economic growth is expected to decelerate from 5.0% yoy in Q1 to 4.8% in Q2, amid uneven domestic momentum.””Industrial production is expected to improve from 4.5% in April to 4.6% in June, amid resilient external demand.””Exports growth should have…

From vtmarkets.com | 21 hr ago USD/JPY edged lower on Thursday, with a softer US Dollar supporting the Japanese Yen. The pair traded around 162.45, staying close to 40-year highs, as the market remained sensitive to the risk of Tokyo acting in the foreign exchange market. Prior episodes of suspected support were short-lived, with the currency still weighed down by structural pressures …

By Glen Hallick, Reporter The Canadian dollar was little changed on Thursday, as crude oil pulled back from yesterday’s hikes. The loonie finished at US$0.7058 or US$1=C$1.4169 compared to Wednesday’s close of US$0.7055 or US$1=C$1.4174. On the U.S. Dollar Index, the greenback shed 0.034 of a point at 100.725. Benchmark crude oil prices stepped back on Thursday afternoon, as reports indicated the military exchanges between the U.S. and Iran will be short-lived. West Texas Intermediate gave up US$1.68 at US$71.84 per barrel, and Brent crude retreated US$1.94 at US$76.08. The TSX Composite Index improved 264.65 points on Thursday, to close…

Oil heads for weekly gain as Middle East supply risks persist

The AUD/USD pair attracts some buyers to near 0.6950 during the Asian trading hours on Friday. The Australian Dollar (AUD) strengthens against the US Dollar (USD) on hawkish rhetoric from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).RBA Assistant Governor Sarah Hunter said on Wednesday that the board will act as needed to return inflation to its target, warning some tightening may be required if the oil shock lifts inflation expectations, per Reuters.The Australian central bank has implemented three interest rate increases of 25 basis points (bps) so far this year, lifting the Official Cash Rate (OCR) to 4.35%. Current ASX 30-day…