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30 Jul 2021

Asian Stock Market in a sea of red in sync with S&P 500 futures amid escalating covid woes

Despite a positive close on Wall Street overnight, the Asian traders fail to rejoice, as the sentiment has turned sour on the final trading day of the week amid escalating coronavirus concerns.

The surge in the covid infections worldwide has been relentless, with spiking cases in the US and Japan so much so that the world’s third-largest economy is set to expand the state of emergency on Friday to Tokyo's three neighboring prefectures of Osaka, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa.

New infections topped 10,000 for the first time on Thursday, with Tokyo alone reporting 3,865 cases.

The situation in the US is no better, with flare-ups of the virus popping up in various states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) setting off new guidelines to reimpose the mask mandate,

According to BNO News, the US reported 96,085 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase since February.

On this side of the Pacific, it’s a bit of a relief, with covid cases eases off the peaks in Australia. New South Wales (NSW) reported 170 new cases on Friday when compared to the previous increase of 239 on Thursday.

Amid renewed covid jitters, the Asian stocks are in a sea of red, led mainly by the Japanese Nikkei 225 index, which is down 1.40% to 27,397. Chinese stocks are back in the negative territory, with the Shanghai Composite Index losing 1.13% so far.

Meanwhile, the futures tied to the S&P 500 index are shedding 0.66% to trade at 4,390, as of writing. The downbeat sentiment could be also associated to a big miss on the US Q2 growth figures.

Jul 30, 2021

Gold Price Forecast: XAU/USD defends 200-DMA break ahead of Fed’s preferred inflation gauge

Gold (XAU/USD) stays defensive around $1,830, sidelined of late, amid Friday’s Asian session. The yellow metal crossed 200-DMA for the first time sinc
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Jul 30, 2021

AUD/NZD Price Analysis: Bears attacks critical support near 1.0540

AUD/NZD treads water on the last trading week of the day in the Asian trading hours. The pair lacks direction and hovers in a narrow price band. At th
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