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Markets Shrug Off US Attack on Iranian Nuclear Facilities

The weekend’s US bombing raids on Iran left measures of global risk appetite essentially unchanged, suggesting that traders expect Tehran to respond in a limited fashion. Both the Brent international crude benchmark and the North American West Texas Intermediate grade are ratcheting lower, with front-month prices slipping to $77 per barrel and $73 respectively after briefly hitting five-month highs in overnight trading. Treasury yields are holding steady, North American equity futures are pointing to a solidly-positive open, and the dollar is trading only modestly higher against a basket of its major counterparts. Headline risks remain substantial, but we think a...

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Hammer blow

• Middle East. Weekend developments with the US entering the fray have dampened sentiment. USD a bit firmer this morning. AUD on backfoot.• Fluid situation. How Iran responds will be in focus. Will it look to disrupt global oil flows? More market volatility anticipated over the period ahead.• Event Radar. Data wise AU CPI indicator due this week. Global PMIs are out today. Fed Chair Powell speaks & US PCE deflator is released. Global Trends Market wise there isn’t a lot to say about what happened on Friday night with US equities drifting back (S&P500 -0.2%), bond yields a touch...

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Risk Sentiment Deteriorates As Liquidity Thins And Geopolitical Tensions Increase

The dollar is holding steady amid holiday-thinned trading conditions as investors process a raft of central bank policy announcements and brace for a spike in geopolitical tensions in the hours or days ahead. Treasury yields are down, equity futures are soft, and safe-haven currencies are outperforming their risk-sensitive counterparts after reports circulated suggesting that the US will join Israeli bombardment of Iran in the coming days and President Donald Trump said “I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do”. An escalation in the war is seen raising the risk of...

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Holding on

• Holding on. Consolidation in markets with US equities & bond yields little changed. Lower vol. helped AUD & NZD edge higher.• US Fed. Policymakers still projecting two cuts in late-2025. But fewer reductions are anticipated in 2026 because of tariff-related inflation risks.• AU jobs. Monthly Australian employment figures out today. After a strong result in April will the volatile series show some payback in May? Global Trends Following the zigzag moves over the past few days on the back of evolving Middle East news markets consolidated overnight ahead of the US public holiday. The S&P500 was range-bound as were...

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Fed Holds Rates, Highlights “Diminished” Uncertainties

As had been widely anticipated, the Federal Reserve left benchmark borrowing rates unchanged this afternoon, and officials delivered a finely-balanced message in the accompanying communications, suggesting that they intend to remain on the sidelines until a clearer picture of underlying economic conditions can emerge. The Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate between 4.25 to 4.50 percent, and in the statement setting out the decision, officials said “Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. The...

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