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Market Brief, North America

Currency Markets Stabilise as Traders Brace for Heavy Week

Markets are holding steady ahead of a week full of potential volatility landmines: central bankers in Tokyo, Washington and London will deliver rate decisions, four of the ‘magnificent seven’ technology companies – Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft – will release earnings, the euro area will publish an inflation update, and a critical US non-farm payrolls report will cap things off before the August doldrums set in. The dollar is edging higher, Treasury yields are slumping, and equity futures are setting up for a second day of gains after last week’s steep stock market selloff. Investors remain unwilling to take short...

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Fear Eases As US Economy Accelerates

A safe-haven bid in foreign exchange markets appears to be fading this morning, with the Japanese yen and Swiss franc losing altitude as downward pressure on risk-sensitive asset classes begins to ease. The dollar’s gains are slowing, Treasury yields are holding steady, and equity futures are setting up for a positive open after a paroxysm of selling saw major indices suffer their biggest losses in more than two years during Wednesday’s session. High-yielding currencies are climbing as carry trade flows hesitantly return, and risk proxies — like the Canadian and Australian dollars — are advancing on a generalised basis. Yesterday’s...

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Equity Unwind Sparks Risk Retreat

Risk-sensitive currencies are staging a broad retreat as losses in stock markets continue. North American equity futures are pointing to a lower open after suffering the biggest selloff in two years during yesterday’s session, with a series of earnings misses intersecting with broader economic dynamics to trigger a headlong rush out of “megacap” names that have been the prime beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence craze. Safe-haven currencies are appreciating, front-end Treasury yields are inching lower, oil prices are down, and the broader commodity complex is coming under renewed selling pressure. The proximate trigger for the selloff isn’t entirely obvious, but...

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Earnings Season Drives Currency Markets

Foreign exchange rates are looking relatively stable this morning, with modest price action largely dictated by events in stock markets. Equity futures are down – putting some pressure on risk-sensitive currency pairs and raising the dollar’s safe-haven value – after Tesla, LVMH and Deutsche Bank reported disappointing earnings. Treasury yields are inching lower, but remain elevated on the back end as investors brace for continued fiscal expansion under either of the current front-runners for US president. The euro is trading near a two-week low after private sector activity decelerated more than expected in early July, suggesting that an early-year economic...

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Volatility Ratchets Higher as Global System Outage Hits Markets

A flight to safety in currency markets is slowly unwinding this morning, but jitters remain as traders gain a better understanding of how a worldwide software outage is impacting the global financial system. Airlines, telecommunications firms, banks, and stock exchanges are suffering service disruptions after an update from the CrowdStrike cybersecurity firm reportedly took down systems running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, but price action in the foreign exchange pairs we track remains consistent with typical liquidity conditions, suggesting that market participants are finding ways to transact. The technological tumult comes after days of strange weather in financial markets, with shifts...

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