1998 – Russian Financial Crisis

Financial crisis can be defined as a sharp decline in the value of property, businesses and consumers unable to pay their debts and financial institutions experiencing a liquidity crunch. A financial crisis is often associated with a panic or bank operation, during which investors sell assets or withdraw money from savings accounts because they fear [...]

Weaker consumer report impacts dollar

The USD/JPY is on consolidated downtrend from last week Friday and the catalyst behind it could be weaker-than-expected consumer sentiment report, which drove U.S. Treasury yields sharply lower. It has swiped out all the previous gains of bullish U.S. Non-Farm payrolls report.  According to the University of Michigan, US consumer sentiment fell to its lowest [...]

BTC/USD Weekly Forecast (16th August 2021 – 20th August 2021)

Fundamental view: Bitcoin has shown an uptrend against greenback in the previous week. Despite the recent crashes, Bitcoin adoption continues to progress. The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, expressing his views on how Bitcoin can combat inflation with a local media outlet on August 12, this helps the Bitcoin's uptrend. Singapore’s largest bank - DBS [...]

XAU/USD Weekly Forecast (16th August 2021 – 20th August 2021)

Fundamental view: The yellow metal bounced up and down against the greenback in this week. The unabated USD strength at the start of the week caused the pair to show a downtrend at the beginning of the week. Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic said that the Fed could start to reduce asset purchases [...]