Skip to main content
UK Edition

Sunday, 16 August 2026

Trade News UK

The latest UK news, business, transport and more

Home / Markets

Markets

Canadian Dollar: Tentative flow reversal before BoC – BNY

BNY’s Geoff Yu highlights that selling of Canadian Dollar (CAD) accounts has eased ahead of the Bank of Canada (BoC) meeting, allowing light CAD purchases after prolonged pressure. He notes USD/CAD selling by CAD-based …

CEE FX: US inflation relief supports koruna and forint – ING

Frantisek Taborsky at ING says lower US inflation and reduced Fed hike expectations bring relief to CEE FX, despite higher Oil and US–Iran tensions. He maintains a bullish view on the Czech koruna and Hungarian forint, …

Workspace plans asset sales amid activist investor pressure

Since July, the nine-person hedge fund they run from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, called HoldCo, has challenged lenders with more than $200 billion in combined assets, demanding that they take swift action or face public c…

Gold: Rebound needs softer Oil and data – OCBC

OCBC’s Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong report that Gold has rebounded from sub-4000 levels after softer United States (US) Consumer Price Index (CPI) prompted markets to pare Fed hike expectations and pushed USD and …

US CENTCOM says it ends latest round of strikes targeting Iran

The United States (US) military's Central Command (CENTCOM) confirms that it conducted another set of strikes against Iran at 10 PM ET on July 14. The CENTCOM said that it struck dozens of military sites near the Strait…

Why is SoftBank stock sliding today?

Shares of companies tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure fell Tuesday after a report that OpenAI has fallen short of internal growth expectations, raising fresh questions about whether the pace of spending acr…

Canadian Dollar edges higher ahead of BoC rate decision

The USD/CAD pair loses traction to near 1.4050 during the early European trading hours on Wednesday. Traders expect the US Federal Reserve (Fed) to skip the July rate hike as inflation cools, weighing on the US Dollar (…