Tag: us dollar

Daily Market analysis
April 07, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The US dollar is losing some of the ground gained over the last few days

EUROPEAN SHARES  All European benchmarks are trading significantly higher on Tuesday, extending yesterday’s gains, as market sentiment strengthened towards risk assets such as stocks and corporate bonds. This revived risk appetite, mainly built on hopes of an easing of the COVID-19 spread, is getting stronger and stronger as new reassuring data confirm the progress we…

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Impeachment aftermath - Facts Vs Trump, what’s the Markets bet?
December 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Impeachment aftermath - Facts Vs Trump, what’s the Markets bet?

The following market analysis was prepared for LeapRate by Ramy Abouzaid, ATFX (AE) Head of Market Research. Faced with a historical impeachment, Trump tweeted “I’m not worried!” Democrats: “We did not choose this impeachment”, Republicans answer “oh come on”. On Wednesday the 18th of December - a Democratic-led US House of Representatives impeached US President Donald…

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Securities and Exchange Organization
December 20, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Are Muslim countries going to have their own crypto?

The President of Iran has proposed that Muslim countries adopt a cryptocurrency. President Hassan Rouhani commented that the domination of the US dollar has allowed economic sanctions to basically weaken economies. Thus, an action must be taken to neutralize this negative effect of the USD. The President of Iran has expressed his wish for a cryptocurrency…

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Daily Market analysis
December 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The US dollar is showing weakness

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 19, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The US dollar is showing weakness in the aftermath of President Trump’s impeachment. The Dollar Index is down by 0.1% this Thursday, following the vote by the House…

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Daily Market analysis
December 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The pound edges up against the US dollar

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 9, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT The pound edged up against the US dollar by 0.2% during early Monday trading. The continuous support found by Sterling, especially over the last two weeks, arises from…

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November 29, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

What lies ahead for the US Dollar in 2020?

The following post was written by Thomas Hall. In October, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time in 2019, with the intention of maintaining the US' longest period of economic growth ahead of the 2020 presidential election. For the incumbent President, those cuts still aren’t enough. Trump has regularly pressured the Fed into…

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