The Japanese yen jumped sharply on Thursday as traders braced for a potential intervention by the Bank of Japan (BoJ). The USD/JPY pair retreated to a low of 160.62 from the year-to-date high of 162.84. US published weak non-farm payrolls data The USD/JPY pair retreated after the US published the latest non-farm payrolls (NFP) report.
The dollar’s rally is running into resistance as traders scale back some of the more aggressive Federal Reserve rate-hike bets that had powered the greenback higher. A softer US labour-market signal helped trigger the shift, but the move is now broader than one data point. The euro and sterling are gaining ground, commodity-linked currencies are
The British pound was on track to record its biggest weekly gain against the US dollar in 12 weeks on Friday. The currency was supported by easing domestic political concerns and weaker-than-expected US labour market data, which weighed on the dollar. Sterling rose 0.1% to $1.3357 during the session. The move brought its weekly gain
Bitcoin cryptocurrency can be expected to rise to the next resistance level 65000.00 (target price for the completion of the active minor correction ii). Bitcoin reversed from support zone Likely to rise to resistance level 65000.00 Bitcoin cryptocurrency is under the bullish pressure after the price reversed up from the support zone located between the
The reflex reaction to a stock that has climbed from $37 in early 2025 to more than $2,000 is that the move is over — that anyone buying SanDisk (SNDK) now is chasing a bubble. That reflex misses what actually changed. SanDisk Corporation (SNDK) trades at $2,023.54 with a market capitalisation of roughly $301 billion
The loudest story on Meta ($META) in mid-2026 is that the company is “incinerating capital” — that a $125 billion-to-$145 billion capital-expenditure bill for AI data centres is value destruction dressed up as ambition. That framing is not just bearish; it is probably backwards. Meta Platforms (META) trades at $612.91 as of July 1, 2026,
USDJPY currency pair can be expected to rise to the next resistance level 164.00 (target price for the completion of the minor impulse wave iii). USDJPY broke multi-month resistance level 160.20 Likely to rise to resistance level 164.00 USDJPY currency pair is under the bullish pressure after the price broke above the strong multi-month resistance
The lazy read on Microsoft (MSFT) in mid-2026 is that it has become a broken AI-capex story: the shares closed at $373.02 on June 30, 2026, well off their old highs, as investors recoiled from a spending bill that hit roughly $37.5 billion in a single quarter (stockanalysis.com; Microsoft FY26 Q2). The overlooked fact is
The USD/ZAR pair was little changed on July 1 as traders reacted to hawkish remarks by South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Lesetja Kganyago, who spoke at the European Central Bank (ECB) forum in Portugal. The pair was trading at 16.40, a few pips below last month’s high of 16.67. SARB may hike interest rates
The bearish read on silver looks obvious: the metal fell from $70.98 on June 15, 2026 to around $59 by June 26 as a US–Iran ceasefire drained the haven bid, and solar demand — silver’s great growth story — just dropped 19% in a single year. Yet that is exactly the misread. The Silver (XAG)