Market analysis from City Index
The world’s oldest cryptoasset has had a quiet week, with prices consolidating in an abnormally tight $1,000 range centered at the key $20,000 level for the last seven days. In a way, the quiet price action can be viewed as a win of sorts for crypto bulls, given the fact that the typically-correlated Nasdaq 100 index has fallen nearly 3% over the last week, but...
Following the goldilocks jobs report, US stocks rallied and added to their rebound from the second of Thursday's session. However, the markets remain in a longer-term bear trend and are not out of the woods. The Fed is going to be tightening its policy aggressively in coming months, which should put a ceiling on asset prices. The bears must now wait for the...
Gold and silver are both suffering because of similar reasons: rising interest rate expectations from both side of the Atlantic and a strong US dollar . The latter has underperformed lately due to elevated concerns over the health of the Chinese economy where the nation’s zero-COVID policy and energy issues have hit the sector. But overall, it is all about...
Eurozone CPI came in hotter than expected this morning, hitting a record high of 9.1% year-over-year. Despite worries about surging energy prices (up 38% y/y, even before cold winter weather arrives) driving the continent into recession, the ECB will be forced to act aggressively to fight inflation at next week’s monetary policy meeting; indeed, economists at both...
EUR/USD made headlines for briefly dropping below parity (1.00) for the first time in nearly 20 years in mid-July, then again throughout most of last week’s trade, but the pair is starting this week’s trade on a bullish note as it peeks above that key psychological level. Interestingly, the pair’s RSI indicator is showing a bullish divergence with rates over the...