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MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   OIL Oil Near $97 as Iran Standoff Hardens and Aussie Rallies Drone strikes on Gulf and Russian energy sites keep crude bid, lift the Canadian dollar and feed Fed hike bets, while a hawkish RBA pushes AUD/USD above 0.70. Followme News Desk  |  October 22, 2

MARKET REVIEW   COMMODITIES   OIL Oil Nears $100 as Iran Threatens Red Sea Shipping Lanes WTI heads for an eighth straight gain on unconfirmed US strike reports, pushing Treasury yields higher, stalling gold and leaving the euro exposed to French unrest. Followme News Desk  |  Oc

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   FED Fed's December Hike Is Locked In. The Peak Isn't Economists now see a December Fed hike as a near-certainty, and a growing camp thinks one more won't be enough. Followme News Desk  |  October 21, 2026 Executive Summary The Federal Reserve's next rate h

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   TREASURIES   FED Yields Surge Past 5.3% as Inflation Fears Roar Back Services surveys show business costs rising at the fastest pace in nearly four years, while a soft jobs report pushes October Fed hike bets aside and leaves the dollar, gold and oil waiting on

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   FED Dollar Caught Between Warsh's Hawkish Pivot And Iran's Renewed Fire A hawkish Fed chair, a record-breaking debt bill, and a shooting war in the Gulf are all pulling on the dollar at the same time and none of them agree on direction. Followme News Desk  |&nb

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   OIL   GOLD Oil Spikes, Gold Slips as Iran Conflict Rattles Markets Six-week highs in crude, a hawkish jobs report, and a wobbling US Dollar collide just as this week's inflation prints loom Followme News Desk  |  September 8, 2026 US markets were shut

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   BOJ Yen Spikes on Generational Wage Data, BOJ Hike Nearly Locked USD/JPY sheds 650 pips in a week as swaps price a 98% chance of a September rate hike Followme News Desk  |  September 9, 2026 USD/JPY has fallen more than 4%, roughly 650 pips, since Septemb

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   US-CHINA Trade Truce Extended, but a Hawkish Fed Keeps the Dollar Bid Washington and Beijing gave themselves two more months before Xi and Trump even sat down. With US yields above 5% and business activity running hot, though, the Fed is still what's moving the doll

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   FED BoC Holds Rates, Fed Beige Book Keeps Hike Bets Alive Two central banks, two different headaches. Oil and tariffs are complicating both playbooks Followme News Desk  |  September 3, 2026 Wednesday gave traders two central bank events, and both came wit

MACRO   ECONOMIC CALENDAR  Weekly Economic Calendar: Week of 21 – 25 September 2026 Followme News Desk  |  September 21, 2026  |  All times GMT+8 This week's economic calendar is focused on U.S. S&P Global Manufacturing and Services PMI, Crude Oil Inventories,

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   OIL Oil Steadies, Diesel Hits Record as Iran Tensions Simmer Fed hawkishness, stalled Iran diplomacy, and record fuel costs collide this week Followme News Desk  |  September 22, 2026 Oil caught a breath on Tuesday after four straight days of losses. WTI c

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   OIL Hormuz Standoff Lifts Oil, Yields and the US Dollar Trump's rejection of Iran's truce offer pushes crude back above $90, sends Treasury yields to 2007 highs and firms bets on an October Fed hike Followme News Desk  |  September 29, 2026 The week opened

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   FED   OIL Soft PCE Fails to Dent Dollar as Iran Tensions Return Cooler US inflation pushed Fed hike bets out to December, but hawkish Fed speakers, a fresh breakdown in US-Iran diplomacy and stubbornly high Treasury yields kept the greenback firm heading into T

MARKET REVIEW   FOREX   RBA RBA Signals More Hikes, but Strong Dollar Caps Aussie Gains Unanimous RBA hike minutes leave the door open to further tightening, but oil-driven US dollar strength and Wednesday’s US CPI are setting the direction for AUD/USD. Followme News Desk  |&nbs