Daily summary: Global markets end the week in risk-on moods

• Wall Street indices traded higher today, supported by easing of the US dollar rally

• European stock markets indices finished today's trading with noticeable gains with most blue chips indices from the Western Europe closing 1.4-1.7% higher. Polish WIG20 was a leader in Europe with a 4% jump 

• Fed's Bullard is leaning towards another 75 bp rate hike in September even if inflation data shows deceleration

• Fed's Waller said he also support another big rate hike at September's meeting

• WSJ reports that ECB will begin discussions on QT in early-October 2022 and balance sheet run-off may begin in Q1 2023

• A Canadian jobs report showed a 39.7k drop in employment, driven by a 77.2k decrease in full-time employment. Unemployment rate jumped from 4.9 to 5.4%

• Chinese CPI inflation decelerated from 2.7 to 2.5% YoY in August while PPI inflation decelerated from 4.2 to 2.3% YoY

• Bank of England postponed monetary policy decision from September 15 to September 22, 2022 amid national mourning following Queen Elizabeth II's death

• Cryptocurrencies rallied today with Bitcoin jumping over 10%

• Commodities benefit from weaker US dollar and overall risk-on moods. Brent jumped back above $90 per barrel and trades almost 5% higher on the day

• Japanese yen regained some ground after verbal intervention from Governor Kuroda. Kuroda said that recent rapid yen depreciation is undesirable and market took it as a warning that BoJ may step in to intervene in the FX markets

• AUD, CHF and JPY are the best performing major currencies while USD and CAD lag the most

S&P 500 (US500) rallies today, trading 1.5% higher at press time. The index cleared 50- and 100-session moving averages today and is looking towards a test of the 4,100 pts resistance zone. Source: xStation5