Category: Market Analysis

Market Analysis

Inflation dominates in the week ahead

Equity markets have continued to struggle as we kick off another week afresh, with European and Asian stocks heading lower once again. Friday’s US jobs report brought fresh concerns over the likeliness of the Fed to cut rate in March as markets have been widely anticipating, with a hot payrolls figure coming alongside a higher wage growth reading.
Market Analysis

AUD/USD Outlook: Seems poised to challenge double-top resistance near 0.6900 mark

The AUD/USD pair regains positive traction on the first trading day of 2024 and for now, seems to have stalled a two-day-old corrective slide from its highest level since mid-July, around the 0.6870 region touched last week. A private survey showed on Tuesday that manufacturing activity in China expanded at a quicker pace at the end of 2023 on the back of steady growth in new orders amid continued improvement in local and overseas demand.