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As the week is coming to an end we have a look at next week’s calendar. On Monday, we get from the UK April’s CBI distributive trades while on Tuesday we get Germany’s forward looking GfK consumer sentiment for May, Sweden’s preliminary GDP rate for Q1, Euro Zone’s business climate for April, the US

Important News for the day Current affairs With only limited data on the economic calendar this week, financial markets continue to focus on a potential recession in the US as well as geopolitical tensions. Several politicians from around the World will also take part at the funeral of Pope Francis.

Risk assets have come under added pressure following President Trump’s Truth Social post demanding “preemptive” Federal Reserve rate cuts, accusing the Fed Chair of lagging and politicizing monetary policy. This has translated to three-year lows for the US Dollar against outperforming peers. Share:

In classic holiday drift mode, Asia opened with all the spark of an Energizer Easter bunny that forgot its batteries — listless, directionless, and running on fumes. Stocks bounced between minor gains and losses as traders stayed sidelined, waiting for something real to emerge from the tariff trench

And here we go sports fans…JPM Crushes IT! BLK, WFC and BK beat on earnings too. China raises tariffs on the US in a Tit for Tat reaction. US futures are higher. – but the day is young. Try the Pasta All’ Assassina – straight from Bari. So, on Wednesday – Stocks came ‘roaring back’ in that historic

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European natural gas prices haven’t escaped the broader risk-off move, ING's commodity experts Ewa Manthey and Warren Patterson note. Tariffs cloud global LNG outlook "Title Transfer Facility (TTF) is down almost 13% so far this month, trading at its lowest level since September. While investment fu

Euro (EUR) is quietly consolidating within a relatively tight range around the mid-1.09s and strengthening modestly vs. the USD, outpacing all the G10 currencies apart from the havens JPY and CHF. Sentiment continues to dominate as markets focus on trade tensions and assess the risks and implication

Precisely as I flagged over the weekend, we’re entering phase two of the trade war narrative in FX — and this is where the lines blur fast. Traders are staring down the barrel of a binary bet: is the dollar still the last port in the storm… or has it quietly become the storm itself? The macro backdr