Open: London Session | Forex, Metals, Oil, Agriculture October 07, 2022

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Currencies

Amid times of global slowdown and a strong dollar, it s the part of the world that usually takes it in the neck. It closed Thursday up 11.4% for the week in dollar terms and is now up 20% for the year, while global stocks as a whole have dropped by 23%. Apple Win | Apple won a 728 million-euro reduction to the record 1.1 billion penalty it was hit with in 2020 for anti-competitive agreements with two favored distributors.

Metals

This may be good or bad, but copper has lost its ability to drive Brazilian stocks.

Oil

Such a move would almost certainly cause oil prices to surge higher. Kamakshya Trivedi of Goldman Sachs also points out that inflation surprises in EM have become more two-sided on a combination of a more favorable oil and currency impulse. US probes whether London-based oil trader manipulated prices.

United States

Source: Deutsche Bank Research Meanwhile, the median 3 million average change to non-farm payrolls one year after tightening was similar to when the Fed started, Ruskin said. Fed s drumbeat is going strong, nuclear Armageddon, banks meet with UK s Kwarteng, Credit Suisse eyes outside investor and Elon Musk must make good on his Twitter agreement. In many ways, markets are making a pivot from the widespread bet earlier this week that the Fed would pivot.
Fed s drumbeat is going strong, nuclear Armageddon, banks meet with UK s Kwarteng, Credit Suisse eyes outside investor and E View in browser Good morning. Fed forecasts show an additional 25 basis-point increase next year, with policy staying at restrictive levels until at least 2024. This is why even with a soft report for September, many in Wall Street doubt the Fed will turn around. It would be hard to use such an outcome as any reason for the Fed to relent. Despite negative GDP growth, the US economy has added more than 3.5 million jobs.
The relative performance of MSCI s indexes for Brazil and for the US (which is in practice almost identical to the S&P 500) is extraordinary to behold. BOE Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden and the Fed’s John Williams speak at events.

Europe

EU justice ministers may agree to the extension at an Oct. 13 meeting. An overwhelming majority of EU members are in favor of giving Hungary more time.

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