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Confidence in a continued gold price rally has enticed hedge funds back into hybrid options trades, after erroneous bets on US equities led to a pause in activity. Hybrid options, which use correlation between two or more assets to cheapen the cost of convex bets, have become a hedge fund staple for trading macro events.
India’s consumer price inflation increased for the first time in ten months in August, official data revealed on Friday. Consumer price inflation climbed to 2.07 percent in August from 1.61 percent in July, which was the lowest inflation since June 2017. The Reserve Bank of India aims to keep inflation in a 2-6 percent tolerance band.
Unprecedented rally drives gold to record territory The price of gold prices has surged to unprecedented levels in recent days, with spot gold climbing to $3,674.00 per ounce earlier this week, marking a gain of nearly 40% so far this year. The rally reflects a powerful combination of monetary policy expectations, a weakening US dollar, persistent
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2025.09.12 2025.09.12 Short-Term Analysis for BTCUSD, XRPUSD, and ETHUSD for 12.09.2025 Roman Oneginhttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/roman-onegin/ Dear readers, I’ve prepared a short-term forecast for Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum based on the Elliott wave analysis. Bitcoin may rise even higher than previously anticipated. The article covers the following subjects: Major Takeaways BTCUSD: the quotes will likely rise in correction
Prior +1.0% HICP +0.8% vs +0.8% y/y prelim Prior +0.9% The good news for France is that core annual inflation is seen easing further from 1.5% in July to 1.2% in August. That owes to a further moderation in services inflation, which is down from 2.5% in July to 2.1% in August. Food prices held
The rally seen in the Australian dollar in the past two weeks has been more attributed to external economic forces (the US and China). On the US side of the equation, more evidence that the deterioration of the US labour market (weaker-than-expected non-farm payrolls data for August, unemployment rose to almost a 4-year high of
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While much of the focus was on the US CPI report yesterday, the weekly initial jobless claims arguably stood out more. The headline figure was the highest since October 2021 and provides further evidence of a weakening labour market. At the balance, traders are working with that to push the Fed narrative as the inflation
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The US and Japan finance ministers reaffirmed their G7 commitments on currency policy, stressing exchange rates should remain market-driven, with intervention limited to disorderly markets and operations disclosed monthly. Japan’s Finance Minister Kato said the joint statement was especially significant in light of the new US tariff order, while noting there were no talks with
GBPUSD rallied after US CPI data all but confirmed a rate cut next week. At least that is the view of market participants who actually priced in as much as 75 bps of cuts through December 2025, according to futures pricing. For more on the US CPI release, please read A hesistant FX Market after
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Canada is in talks with Alberta and energy firms about dropping its planned federal cap on oil and gas emissions in exchange for new commitments to cut the industry’s carbon footprint, according to sources. Reuters reporting. In summary: The cap, drafted under former PM Justin Trudeau but not yet legislated, aimed to slash sector emissions
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