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Oil prices traded in a volatile range on Thursday as markets balanced signs of improving Middle East crude flows against lingering uncertainty surrounding diplomatic efforts to end the conflict with Iran. Brent crude, the global…
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Gold prices fell below the key $4,000-an-ounce threshold on Thursday, extending the previous session’s losses as markets continued to absorb stronger inflation data and increasingly hawkish signals from Federal Reserve officials.…
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BTC/USD remains under heavy pressure for a second consecutive session, extending its decline below the key psychological 80,000 level and falling to its lowest point in six weeks on Friday. The latest wave of weakness has been fueled…
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GBP/USD extends its advance for a third consecutive session, once again testing the key resistance area around 1.3406, which marks the 50% Fibonacci retracement of the 1.3675–1.3136 decline, and 1.3418, the October 22 high. A softer…
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The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged within the 3.75%–4.00% range, in line with market expectations, as policymakers opted to pause while awaiting greater clarity from incoming economic data and ahead of next week’s U.S.…
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The New Zealand dollar came under heavy selling pressure on Wednesday after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand unexpectedly left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, defying widespread expectations for a 25-basis-point increase.…
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EUR/GBP remains pinned near the lower end of a four-day consolidation range, hovering just above the multi-month low at 0.8361, its weakest level since May 2025. The near-term outlook continues to favor the downside after Monday’s…
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The dollar extended its recovery for a third straight session on Tuesday, retracing more than half of the decline from the 102.72 peak to the 101.24 low. Improving risk sentiment, particularly stabilization in AI-related stocks,…
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Brent crude opened Monday with a bearish gap, pulling back from the nearly seven-month high reached last Friday, as renewed optimism over a potential easing of tensions between the United States and Iran weighed on prices. Despite…
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The preliminary Eurozone Composite PMI, which measures activity across both the manufacturing and services sectors, slowed more sharply than expected in October, falling to 51.9 from 53.1 in September and missing market forecasts of…
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