Morning wrap (17.08.2021)

6:47 AM 17 August 2021
  • US indices finished yesterday's trading mixed. Dow Jones gained 0.31%, S&P 500 added 0.26%, Nasdaq dropped 0.20% and Russell 2000 moved 0.89% lower

  • Stocks in Asia are trading lower. Nikkei drops 0.1%, S&P/ASX 200 trades almost 1% lower and Kospi moves 0.7% lower. Indices from China also decline

  • DAX futures point to a lower opening of the European session

  • US President Biden defended his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan saying that US soldiers cannot die in a war that even Afghans do not want to fight in

  • NZD is trading lower against other major currencies. New Zealand currency began underperforming after the country reported the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case since February

  • According to RBA minutes, Covid remains the main source of uncertainty and recent outbreaks have halted economic recovery

  • Fed's Rosengren said that a strong jobs report for August would support the taper announcement in September. He also said that he prefers to began taper no later than December 2021

  • China Securities Journal reported that People Bank of China may cut reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points in Q4 2021

  • Bitcoin trades near $46,000 mark

  • Precious metals trade higher, oil trades flat while industrial metals trade mixed

NZDUSD pulled back from a resistance zone marked with 38.2% retracement of the recent downward move. The pair plunged today following news of the first locally transmitted Covid case in New Zealand since February 2021. The pair is testing the lower limit of the recent trading range at around 0.6940. Source: xStation5

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