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“As the children grew, life became more complicated.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell around 120 points, or 0.24%, on Tuesday as investors returned from the Presidents’ Day holiday and picked up right where they left off: selling tech. The S&P 500 shed roughly 0.5% while the Nasdaq Composite led losses, dropping around 0.8% as software and semiconductor names bore the brunt of ongoing AI disruption anxiety. The session continued a pattern that has dogged markets for weeks: the Dow and S&P 500 have now fallen in four of the past five weeks, and the Nasdaq notched its fifth straight weekly decline heading into this week. A…
U.S. stock futures were little changed late Monday, following another brutal week for tech stocks.
UOB Global Economics & Markets Research highlights that Malaysia’s final 4Q25 GDP grew 6.3% year‑on‑year, the fastest since 4Q22, lifting full‑year 2025 growth to 5.2%, above the official 4.0%–4.8% range. Growth was driven by domestic demand, exports, tourism and AI‑related tech. UOB expects real GDP to slow to 4.5% in 2026 and Bank Negara Malaysia to keep the OPR at 2.75%.Robust 2025 gives way to slower 2026″Malaysia’s final 4Q25 GDP surprised on the upside, growing 6.3% y/y (advance est: +5.7%; 3Q25: revised upwardly to +5.4% from +5.2%), the fastest quarterly expansion since 4Q22.””For the full year of 2025, Malaysia’s economy…
Here’s how trading hours and other services will be affected on the federal holiday, which falls on Monday, Feb. 16, this year.
Gold prices fell in United Arab Emirates on Monday, according to data compiled by FXStreet.The price for Gold stood at 587.94 United Arab Emirates Dirhams (AED) per gram, down compared with the AED 594.28 it cost on Friday.The price for Gold decreased to AED 6,858.50 per tola from AED 6,931.57 per tola on friday.Unit measureGold Price in AED1 Gram587.9410 Grams5,877.33Tola6,858.50Troy Ounce18,287.15FXStreet calculates Gold prices in United Arab Emirates by adapting international prices (USD/AED) to the local currency and measurement units. Prices are updated daily based on the market rates taken at the time of publication. Prices are just for reference…
“She is an old-school farm girl who inherited all her money and wants to pass it down to her children.”
Highlights include US PCE and GDP, FOMC Minutes, RBNZ, Flash PMIs, UK, Canadian and Japanese Inflation Week Ahead Highlights SUN: Japanese Prelim. GDP (Q4) MON: US Holiday (Washington’s Birthday/Presidents Day); Eurogroup Meeting; Swedish Unemployment (Jan), EZ Industrial Production (Dec) TUE: RBA Minutes (Feb); UK Unemployment/Wages (Dec), German ZEW (Feb), US ADP Weekly, Canadian CPI (Jan), NY Fed (Feb), Chinese Lunar New Year (Hong Kong markets closed from 17th-19th Feb) WED: RBNZ Announcement, FOMC Minutes (Jan); Japanese Trade Balance (Jan), Australian Wage Price Index (Q4), UK CPI (Jan), US NY Fed (Feb), Industrial Production (Jan) THU: Japanese CPI (Jan), Australian…
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MUFG’s Michael Wan views the detailed US–India interim trade deal, including tariff cuts and exemptions, as positive for India’s external position. He sees scope for USD/INR to briefly break below 90 in coming months, but expects only a shallow INR recovery. MUFG forecasts USD/INR at 89.50 in Q1 2026 before rising back to 93.00 by year-end on FDI repatriation and wider deficits.Tariff cuts help but upside later”USD/INR: US and India provided more details around the interim trade deal. Overall we think it is a positive, and we forecast USD/INR at 89.50 by March 2026 and 93.00 by Dec 2026″”Overall, we…