us dollar

Last month the Russian government missed a payment on a Eurobond because financial sanctions meant that it was unable to service its debt. Russia managed to evade a...

Gold prices eased last week, with a broader pullback in commodity markets seeing the precious metal trade back below US$2,000 per troy ounce. A widely anticipated rate...

There are three prices that ultimately matter for the world, explains Andrew Canobi from Franklin Templeton. The price of oil, the value of the US Dollar, and the US...

When Simon Doyle of Schroders Australia takes a broad view of the recent performance of capital markets and thinks about the undercurrents of shifting geopolitical,...

The investment outlook is about to get murky as we wade into a challenging period for markets. Turbulence from economic activity should start to pick up as the...

The local market started slightly positive before market-level global buying popped it up on another low turnover day. We are on the sixth consecutive week without a...

The consensus is that emerging markets are a potential beneficiary from the US ‘blue wave’ after the Democratic Party won control of all three houses of government...

When investors choose to invest internationally, they need to consider the implications of movements in the Australian dollar relative to the associated foreign...

A downtrend in the US currency is underway, having started after the COVID-19 market sell-off and triggered by the huge amount of quantitative easing (QE) in the US....

One of the more noteworthy developments in financial markets over the past few months has been the precipitous slide of the US dollar. As measured by a basket of major...

The US dollar is on track for its first weekly gain since June. The greenback has been undermined by America’s very patchy coronavirus control policies and political...

The US dollar fell against all G10 currencies in July, in an orderly decline. More dramatic have been the surges in gold, up 10% in July including record highs and...

Many investors view cash as part of the defensive, and somewhat static portion of their portfolios, but in uncertain markets it might also be used as a trading tool...

Here's some of the standout charts on my radar. I aim to pick a good mix of charts covering key global macro trends, and ones which highlight risks and opportunities...

After a recent trip to Argentina over the Christmas break, we couldn't help but notice the relentless rise in prices the country has experienced in recent years. This...

This week it's the US Dollar Index. Unless you've been living under a rock (or maybe that saying should be updated - unless you've been living out of range of wifi),...

Local market fell on the open and then made a slight recovery as North Korean missile test launch through Japanese airspace killed off the weak overnight global market...

As the Fed meets to make its June monetary policy decisions, the consensus (and my view) is that they will hike interest rates again. This will add to the interest...

The New Zealand dollar seems to be defying gravity of late, as the interest rate differential between the RBNZ's OCR and the Fed funds rate continues to move lower. ...