The recent escalation in the US-China trade war fueled an aggressive risk aversion, which in turn pushed the safe-haven yen higher.

On Monday, rising US-China trade tensions triggered a massive sell-off in global equities but the greenback failed to take an advantage as...

After the latest round of talks ended with no signs of a breakthrough, Trump unexpectedly escalated trade war with China. Overnight, the US President...

Mixed Chinese PMI data coupled with fresh threats from Trump curbed investor optimism early on Wednesday.

After the Fed confirmed its dovish shift yesterday, the Bank of England has a so-called Super Thursday today.

Today the two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting concludes. The central bank’s tone will set the direction for the dollar across the board.

The US stock markets shifted to a recovery mode on Wednesday after an aggressive pre-Christmas sell-off. S&P 500 gained by nearly 5%, with most sectors turned green.

Global markets are trading in a risk-off mode on Thursday amid a potential escalation of US-China trade tensions despite the two countries reached a 90-daycease-fire a few days ago. The Huawei Technologies executive was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States.

Gold prices remain in the uptrend, with the bullion refreshed six-year lows earlier this week. This is the thirteenth week of growth out of fourteen, and demand for...

Recession fears sent Brent crude lower on Wednesday as the inverted US Treasury yield curve spooked global investors and sparked a widespread risk aversion.

Global equity markets are broadly lower again on Tuesday, with safe-haven gold retains support amid regional fears.

Brent crude remains relatively resilient amid a massive sell-off in the global financial markets. Trump escalated his trade war with China last week, with Beijing wowed to retaliate.

Over the last month, BTCUSD is trading within the $8,000-10,000 range. Since May 5, when the price bumped into the psychological resistance of $10,000, the coin is mostly nursing losses. Bitcoin crashed to almost $8,000 overnight and tries to regain ground on Thursday, but the pair obviously lacks the bullish impetus

BTCUSD tried to stage a recovery over the weekend, but failed to confirm a break above the 100-DMA around $8,800 and resumed the bearish move on Tuesday. Today, the price has lost around 6% already, and the sell-off could intensify, should the coin lose the key $8,000 mark.

The cryptocurrency market continues to suffer losses on Friday, with Bitcoin is down almost 4% on the day. The coin failed to keep above the key $9,000 threshold and slipped to April 26 lows at $8,676. Should this level give up, we may see a decline towards $8,400 and then to the $8,000 area.  

BTCUSD refreshed early-March highs over the weekend, but then corrected rather sharply and continues to retreat on Monday.