Europe’s new car registrations grew at a slower pace in April amid heightened geopolitical risks, data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, showed Wednesday.New car registrations grew 5.1 percent year-on-year in April, slower than the 12.5 percent increase in March. Italy registered a strong sales growth of 11.6 percent, followed by an 8.4 […]
Bitcoin technical outlook From a technical perspective, Bitcoin remains within a broader medium-term recovery structure despite recent weakness. Last week the cryptocurrency successfully rebounded from its mid-to-late April lows at $74,931-to-$73,304.40 and has since reclaimed the $78,000 region before slipping back to $76,000. Nonetheless Bitcoin has continued forming a sequence of higher lows since April,
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EUR/CAD extended its near term rally today as increasingly hawkish rhetoric from senior European Central Bank officials continued pushing markets toward pricing a June rate hike, while falling oil prices added renewed pressure on Canadian Dollar. The pair resumed its rebound from 1.5941 and is now approaching the key 1.6148 resistance zone, with broader momentum
French consumer confidence tumbled lower in the latest month to 82, that being the weakest such reading since March 2023. Since the start of the US-Iran conflict, consumer confidence has fallen by 9 points in the past three months. That marks the steepest decline over the same period since 2022. The details reveal a further
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand maintained its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday and signaled rate hikes at coming meetings.The Monetary Policy Committee, governed by Anna Breman, voted to hold the Official Cash Rate at 2.25 percent. The bank has lowered its benchmark rate by 325 basis points since August 2024, bringing it to the
AUD/NZD may finally be running into a wall. After months of powerful upside momentum, today’s combination of a hawkish RBNZ shock and softer Australian inflation data delivered the strongest challenge yet to the pair’s medium-term uptrend. The correction risks are clearly growing — but markets still are not fully convinced the reversal has truly started.
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RBNZ Governor Breman says the Middle East conflict drove today’s rate hold, MPC disagreement was over timing of the first hike, and future increases remain data-dependent with multiple policy paths open. Summary: RBNZ Governor Anna Breman, post-decision press conference, May 27, 2026 Breman said the Middle East conflict was the direct prompt for today’s decision
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2026.05.26 2026.05.27 Weekly Economic Calendar for 01.06.2026–07.06.2026 Jana Kanehttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/jana-kane/ Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East continue to send shockwaves through global markets, while the White House and President Trump remain a constant source of headline-driven volatility. A stream of unexpected remarks, abrupt policy signals, and unpredictable moves has left investors navigating an increasingly fragile and
Producer prices in Japan were up 3.0 percent on year in April, the Bank of Japan said on Wednesday – beneath expectations for 3.3 percent, which would have been unchanged from the March reading.On a monthly basis, producer prices were up 0.5 percent – slowing from 1.3 percent in the previous month.Excluding international transportation, producer
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda opens the two-day IMES conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, with Fed, RBA, IMF and BIS representatives among speakers across sessions on price shocks, trade and monetary imbalances. Programme: Day One, May 27 — Times in JST / GMT / US Eastern 9:00 JST / 00:00 GMT / 20:00 ET
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Several foreign exchange traders and salespeople have left Societe Generale over the past five months, FX Markets understands. Among the most recent senior departures is London-based Ruchir Sharma, co-head of FX options trading, one source close to the matter says. He joined in the summer of last year from Nomura, having previously been global head of
The AUDUSD pushed higher today, but the rally once again stalled near a key technical ceiling. The price tested the 50% retracement of the move down from the May high at 0.71774, and sellers leaned against that level to keep the upside capped. That area also lines up with prior swing highs, making it a
