South Africa Manufacturing Production Index (YoY): -5.2% (June) vs previous -0.6%

Aug 8, 2024

US Dollar retreats across the board with markets nervous about US data

The US Dollar (USD) eases across the board against nearly all major peers in what turns out to be a nervous Thursday. Markets are trembling in the run-up to the weekly US Jobless Claims data, which will be released later in the day. It was this same data

USD: How bad is the data and what is the Fed going to do about it? – ING

Some high-profile equity markets have seen their recoveries stall at key technical levels such as 5300 for the S&P 500 and 36,000 for the Nikkei 255.