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Market Watch

Fri June 21, 2024
USD/JPY closed at 158.90 yesterday, a record daily high that surpassed the previous record 158.33 from April 26th. The highest intraday mark for the [...]
Thu June 20, 2024
The Bank of England kept its overnight rate unchanged at its policy announcement today. Overnight index swaps had priced in only a 1.5% probability [...]
Tue June 18, 2024
The dollar index is holding onto a narrow 0.04% gain today at 105.359. The dollar had been higher overnight but cautious trading ahead of [...]
Mon June 17, 2024
The U.S. Dollar Index is trading at 105.556, just below its two-month high at 105.805. With the Fed standing firm on rates (waiting for [...]
Wed June 12, 2024
U.S. May Consumer Prices for May (released today) were lower than forecast and lower than the prior period in all categories. Month-over-month prices were [...]
Tue June 11, 2024
The U.S. Dollar Index is +1.17% over three days, atypical short-term volatility for the leading safe-haven currency. Friday’s Nonfarm payroll blowout (272k jobs added [...]
Fri June 7, 2024
U.S. Change in Nonfarm Payrolls for May were 272k, solidly beating the 180k estimate. But April’s payrolls were revised lower, going from 175k to [...]
Thu June 6, 2024
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims were 229k for the week ending June 1st, just higher than the 220k estimate. And the prior week’s claims were [...]
Wed June 5, 2024
ADP Employment Change for May increased 152k, below the 175k estimate. This is the second piece of soft labor data this week after Monday’s [...]