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The charts that matter: the Fed puts the cat right in among investors’ pigeons
With the US Federal Reserve signalling its relaxed attitude to inflation, markets went a little haywire towards the end of this week. Here’s what happened to the charts that matter the most to the global economy.
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Gold continues to meander along, picking up slightly from its recent lows, seemingly oblivious to all that’s going on in the world around it.
(Image credit: Gold price chart)
(Gold: three months)
The US dollar index (DXY – a measure of the strength of the dollar against a basket of the currencies of its major trading partners) is having a rather volatile time of things, dipping after the Fed’s Jerome Powell said interest rates would be going nowhere, but rallying since.
(Image credit: US dollar index chart)
(DXY: three months)
The Chinese yuan (or renminbi) continued its drift upwards against the dollar (when the red line is falling, the yuan is strengthening).
(Image credit: USD/CNY currency chart)
(Chinese yuan to the US dollar: since 25 Jun 2019)
The yield on the ten-year US government bond was back on the rise, reacting to Jerome Powell’s pronouncements in the week.
(Image credit: US Treasury bond yield chart)
(Ten-year US Treasury yield: three months)
The yield on the Japanese ten-year bond bounced a little.
(Image credit: Japanese government bond yields chart)
(Ten-year Japanese government bond yield: three months)
And the yield on the ten-year German Bund was back on the rise, too.
(Image credit: German Bund yield chart)
(Ten-year Bund yield: three months)
Copper continued to consolidate after its recent big drop.
(Image credit: Copper price chart)
(Copper: nine months)
The Aussie dollar traded in sympathy with the copper price.
(Image credit: AUD/USD currency chart)
(Aussie dollar vs US dollar exchange rate: three months)
Cryptocurrency bitcoin had a little scare, but continues its seemingly unstoppable climb higher –though it remains just off its recent $60,000-plus high.
(Image credit: Bitcoin price chart)
(Bitcoin: three months)
US weekly jobless claims rose by 45,000 to 770,000, compared to 725,000 last week (revised up from 712,000). The four-week moving average fell to 746,250 from 762,250 (which was revised up from 759,000) the week before.
(Image credit: US jobless claims chart)
(US jobless claims, four-week moving average: since Jan 2020)
The oil price (as measured by Brent crude) took a big hit.
(Image credit: Brent crude oil price chart)
(Brent crude oil: three months)
Amazon –along with the wider tech-heavy Nasdaq index –sold off heavily too after the Fed signalled its indifference to rising inflation, something that bodes ill for the growth stock boom.
(Image credit: Amazon share price chart)
(Amazon: three months)
Tesla joined in the general tech-induced panic, too.
(Image credit: Tesla share price chart)
(Tesla: three months)
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