Marketwatch North America

Daily Insights
April 24, 2024

U.S. Durable Goods Orders for March were +2.6%, above the 2.5% estimate. And Durable Goods excluding transportation were +0.2%, matching the survey estimate. Today’s better-than-expected data offsets yesterday’s drop in manufacturing and services inflation, giving a lift to the dollar and treasury yields.

The U.S. dollar index is +0.10%, primarily due to a 0.50% gain vs. SEK, 0.30% gain vs. CAD, and sub-0.10% gains against JPY, CHF & EUR. At 105.788, the dollar index is on the low side of its 105.75/106.50 2-week range.

U.S. Treasuries are higher in all tenors, the widest gains concentrated in the far tenors, and the 10-year yield leading +0.039% at 4.643%.

USD/JPY reached a fresh multi-year high today at 155.17 as dollar bulls continue to pile into the short JPY position despite a steady stream of intervention warnings from Japanese finance officials. The Japanese yen has now weakened 50.10% since year-end 2020 and is down 9.85% just this year against the dollar.

Oil prices are -0.72% today, in-line with the entire energy sector. Natural gas prices are leading declines, down 3.75%.

Gold is -0.04% today vs. yesterday’s close, currently $2,321.20/oz. Gold is now 4.53% below its all-time record high set on April 12th.

Economic Calendar

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CAD - Core Retail Sales m/m
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CAD - Retail Sales m/m
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USD - Core Durable Goods Orders m/m
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AUD - CPI q/q
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AUD - CPI y/y
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AUD - Trimmed Mean CPI q/q
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USD - Durable Goods Orders m/m
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EUR - German Buba President Nagel Speaks
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USD - Crude Oil Inventories
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CAD - BOC Summary of Deliberations
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CHF - Credit Suisse Economic Expectations
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EUR - German ifo Business Climate
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EUR - German 10-y Bond Auction
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NZD - Bank Holiday
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AUD - Bank Holiday
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GBP - CBI Industrial Order Expectations
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EUR - Belgian NBB Business Climate
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CNY - CB Leading Index m/m

Market Indicators

Currency Pairs
Pair High Low
usd/jpy 155.167 154.739
eur/usd 0.9365 0.93331
gbp/usd 0.80497 0.80223
aud/usd 1.54166 1.53062
usd/cad 1.37221 1.36545
eur/gbp
usd/mxn 17.071 16.9084
Equities and Commodities
S&P 500 5078.81
NASDAQ 17573.7
DOW 38475.1
GOLD 2319.89
SILVER 27.22

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