World Markets
25 June 2021
World Markets at a glance for Currency, Equity, Commodity, Bonds, Crypto Currency, Financial News & Major Economic Events.
- Dollar firm as traders brace for U.S. inflation data
- Asian shares up as U.S. infrastructure bill lifts S&P to a record
- Oil keeps climbing on tight supply outlook, eyes on OPEC+
Currency
The U.S. dollar held near multi-month highs on Friday as investors warily awaited U.S. inflation data, while the pound nursed modest losses after Bank of England (BoE) policymakers leaned away from flagging rate rises.
Early Asia trade was steady, with the euro pinned below its 200-day moving average at $1.1930 and the yen just short of a 15-month low at 110.955 per dollar. The U.S. dollar index was steady at 91.833, off a week-ago high of 92.408 but clear of troughs below 90 that it had plumbed in May.
Equity
Asian shares rose on Friday, tracking gains on Wall Street overnight that lifted the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 indexes to record highs after U.S. President Joe Biden embraced a bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal.
In morning trade, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 0.58%.Chinese blue-chips rose 0.43%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.61%, Seoul’s Kospi was up 0.79% and Australian shares climbed 0.22%. Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.59%.
Oil
Oil prices rose on Friday, heading for a fifth straight week of gains, with demand growth seen outstripping supply on bets that OPEC+ producers will be cautious in returning more output to the market from August.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 8 cents, or 0.1%, to $73.38 a barrel , headed for a 2.4% gain for the week. Brent crude futures climbed 7 cents, or 0.1%, to $75.63 a barrel, headed for a 2.9% jump for the week.
Economic Events
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