Close: London Session | Forex, Metals, Oil, Agriculture March 15, 2021

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Agriculture

Commercial and social avenues opened also, with Britain establishing trading empires in tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, and chocolate that were to revolutionize British tastes, world markets, and state finances. Over two decades ago Jay got his start at the Kansas City Board of Trade in the Wheat Futures pit.

Currencies

The U.S. dollar gained as rising bond yields forced traders to cut their bearish dollar bets to four-month lows while gold prices edged higher on prospects of higher inflation. The dollar gained as rising bond yields forced traders to cut their bearish dollar bets to four-month lows while gold prices edged up on prospects of higher inflation. In FX markets, the cyclically-sensitive New Zealand Dollar and Canadian Dollar climbed higher alongside the haven-associated US Dollar and Swiss Franc.
FOREX: The dollar gained for a second consecutive session as rising U.S. Treasury yields forced traders to cut their bearish dollar bets to four-month lows. POINT: The Fed’s choice is to trash the dollar to save the economy, or trash the economy to save the dollar. Smaller gains were seen in the Australian dollar (+1.02%), the British pound (+0.58%), the euro (+0.36%), the New Zealand dollar (+0.23%), and the Swiss franc (+0.08%). less Nearly all major currencies closed the week higher against the US dollar.
The dollar index opened Asian trading with a decline amid falling US10Y yields. The US Dollar is supported by rising bond yields a ahead of President Joe Biden’s speech at 17:45 GMT (UUP). At this point, as long as the US dollar (UDN) continues to get sold, it makes sense that Bitcoin would continue to gain.

Metals

Subsequent rebounds in stocks, bonds, and real estate took valuations to levels as high or higher (much higher for stocks and gold) than before the turbulence took hold. less Gold and crude oil prices traded modestly higher during Monday’s APAC morning session following Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s comment on inflation over the weekend. While stocks and real estate continued their climb to lofty levels, gold began a seven-month slide back to its pre-pandemic price.
Gold prices have fallen 6.3% since February 10th, while crude oil prices have climbed 13.3% during the same period. Gold traders will closely watch this week’s announcement alongside the BoE and BOJ meetings for clues about global central banks’ take on inflation and economic recovery. After falling sympathetically with other markets, gold’s price began an aggressive climb of more than 40% in just four months’ time. S&P 500 futures pointed to a small gain at the open, the 10-year Treasury yield was at 1.616%, oil held close to $66 a barrel and gold rose slightly.
Gold drifted lower, while silver traded unchanged, as yields on US 10-year Treasuries climbed 1-basis point higher (UUP, FXF, GLD,SLV, SPTL). Gold prices are trading up by 0.3% at Rs 44,865 per 10 grams. In his writing and research, Sumner specializes in monetary policy, the role of the international gold market in the Great Depression, and the history of macroeconomic thought.

Oil

Oil prices rose as data showed China’s economic recovery accelerated at the start of 2021, boosting the energy demand outlook at the world’s largest oil importer. Oil prices advanced as data showed China’s economic recovery accelerated at the start of 2021, boosting the energy demand outlook at the world’s largest oil importer. Crude oil and condensates in floating storage peaked at 215 million barrels last June according to oil analytics firm Vortexa. Saudi seaborne crude exports for last week were seen at 38.4 million bbl (5.5 million bpd) compared to the revised 49.6 million bbl (7.1 million bpd) the week prior.
Image Source: Pixabay China’s oil demand continues to support the global oil market. Both China’s demand and Indian demand for oil are exceeding pre-COVID levels and now in the U.S., gasoline demand is also recovering to almost normal levels. Strengthening crude oil prices and colder weather forecasts would lend further support to rest of energy complex including carbon.
As the world went into lockdown with planes grounded and cars parked in driveways, demand for crude oil plunged even as it kept bubbling up out of the ground.
In the past month, we have seen higher US rates having an adverse effect on stocks and thereby also on NOK, even though oil prices have risen. China’s oil demand increased 17% in January-February from a year earlier, to 13.326 million barrels a day, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

United States

The Fed is widely expected to leave its target rate unchanged at the current 0%-to-0.25% target range. Inflation is still below target, but that will likely change fairly soon during Q2, why the Fed will be forced to clarify its acceptance of a “moderately overshooting” inflation. Bond yields are still at a historically low level, and the Fed Funds Rate remains 0%. “The Fed is aiming for higher inflation, which means higher interest rates,” predicts Steven Ricchiuto, chief U.S. economist for Mizuho.
Fed officials are also not expected to alter their interest rate outlook and may stick to the plan of keeping rates this low through 2023. At Wednesday’s meeting, the Fed must find a way to communicate to markets that, while remaining accommodative, it still accounts for stronger economic growth. With the Fed meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, bond yields could take their cue from what they say. US stock futures are trading higher today indicating a positive opening for Wall Street indices.
It was more or less what was expected for February, and on an annualized basis stands at 1.3%…well within the Fed’s target. 3) Will the Fed try to contain long bond yields?

China

Beijing sees orange as sandstorm brings worst air since 2017. Shifting winds out of Beijing could blow that out of reach for quite a while.

Europe

Separately, the bloc is planning to begin legal action against the U.K. over the government s decision to unilaterally change parts of the Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland. EU considers getting a vaccine boost from Russia’s Sputnik Publicly, the European Union has dismissed Russia’s global coronavirus vaccine supply campaign as a propaganda stunt by an undesirable regime. Following last week’s promise to increase the pace of bond purchases, ECB Governing Council member Martins Kazaks warned that higher yields won’t always spur a similar move.
An EU official close to EMA’s decision-making told Reuters that a decision “might perhaps” come at the end of March. The numbers show a hefty drop in shipments to and from the EU in January, the first month after the transition period ended. By now, I have built up excellent skills and experience in analyzing macroeconomic and political developments in Europe, the Eurozone and Germany, including ECB watching.
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