🔥 Focus: US NFP lands today at 15:30 GMT+3 as the dollar extends its slide – the Dollar Index is down to 98.99. Markets now price near-even odds of a September Fed cut after dovish comments from Fed's Waller. JPY is the story of the week, surging over 2% to one-month highs on renewed BoJ rate-hike bets and intervention warnings from Tokyo.
💱 Forex:
🔹 EUR/USD – 1.1621 (+0.28%), holding firm on broad USD softness
🔹 GBP/USD – 1.3510 (+0.17%), steady ahead of BOE Gov Bailey's speech at 11:50 GMT+3
🔹 USD/JPY – 155.52 (-2.01%), yen strength dominating the majors
🥇 Commodities:
🔹 Gold – $4,508 (+2.1%), boosted by fading rate-hike bets and Mideast risk
🔹 Brent – $96.40 (+0.8%); WTI – $92.09 (+1.2%), supported by US–Iran tensions
₿ Crypto:
🔹 Bitcoin – above $80,000 on reduced Fed rate-hike odds and improving risk appetite
🌏 Asian Session:
🔹 Nikkei 225 – +1.07% to 64,902, ending a 4-session losing streak on tech-led buying
🔹 Hang Seng – +2.10%, tracking the Wall Street tech rally
🔹 Shanghai Composite – firmer, moving with the regional advance
🔹 Sensex – +0.66% to 76,657 / Nifty – 23,911, both rebounding after a 4-day slide
📅 Also today (GMT+3): 15:30 – Average Hourly Earnings, Unemployment Rate, Canada Employment Change
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