The S&P 500 spent Monday holding its breath. The index closed at 7,805 — down a token 2 points from Friday, and 39 points below Tuesday’s all-time high of 7,844. Three sessions of near-perfect stillness, right as third-quarter earnings season opens with the big banks reporting Tuesday and Wednesday. The market is waiting for corporate […]
The dollar’s autumn rampage just hit its first real speed bump. After five straight weeks of gains that carried EUR/USD from 1.15 to the edge of 1.11, the greenback stalled on Monday — and the euro pounced. The pair dipped to 1.1114 in early trade, its lowest since early 2025, before buyers stormed back and […]
Monday dashboard — every major market on one screen, as October’s second week begins. FX The dollar is the story of the year and the month. EUR/USD at 1.1157 is at its weakest since early 2025, having broken 1.12 with authority last week. USD/JPY at 158.6 is the one pair resisting the dollar’s advance, still […]
1.1157. That’s where EUR/USD closed on Friday — the lowest finish since early 2025 — and it opens this week in genuinely uncharted territory for anyone who started trading after 2022. The pair has now fallen roughly 4.9% from its mid-May high of 1.1743, and the decline is accelerating, not slowing. How we got here […]
4,198. That’s where gold closed the week — down marginally for October, 10% below the August recovery high, and 15% below April’s record. The metal has spent three weeks pinned between 4,091 and 4,259, and the longer this compression lasts, the more violent its eventual resolution will be. The bull case, on its last legs […]