Currency Outlook: 09/10/23

Business finance
Thanim Islam

At Equals Money, it’s our mission to make money movement as simple as possible and we want to help your business move forward in 2023 despite any potential disruptions, such as market volatility or adverse currency fluctuations.

One of the ways we can help your business is by looking closer at the currency pairs you care about, by analysing market data that’s historically had an impact and using it to provide insight and to forecast what could come next.

Read on to take a look at our current outlook for w/b 09/10/23.

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Key FX dates & events this week:


Tuesday 10th October 2023

  • IMF Latest Growth Outlook.

Wednesday 11th October 2023

  • German CPI (Final Sept)
  • FOMC Minutes

Thursday 12th October 2023

  • UK GDP (Aug MoM)
  • US CPI (Sep)
  • US Core CPI (Sep)

Tensions in Middle East

Markets go risk averse seeking out the US dollar and Japanese yen on geopolitical tensions following the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel. The price of oil also surged higher on supply shock concerns. Since the open, markets have calmed but should the conflict escalate then we could these moves continue.

Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P.

US inflation to guide higher-for-longer narrative

Markets continue to grapple with the concept of the Fed keeping interest rates higher for longer given the underlying strength in the US economy and Fed’s resilient battle to bring inflation back down. Thursday’s numbers are expected to show further easing in prices which should ease the higher rates for longer expectations. Could see a weaker US dollar as a result but dependent on the situation in the Middle East.

Source: Bloomberg Finance LP.

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