Forexlive Americas FX news wrap: The | Forexlive
The NZD was the strongest and the CAD was the weakest of the major currencies to end the trading week. The USD was mostly higher with declines only vs the GBP and the NZD. The greenback moved the most vs the CAD at 0.47%. The dollar rose 0.43% vs the EUR.
In other markets today
- Spot gold fell 9.38 or -0.52% at $1750.68. For the trading week, the price of gold fell -1.15%
- Spot silver is unchanged at $20.94. For the week, it fell -3.42%
- WTI crude oil is trading at $80.14 after settling at $80.08. The price of crude oil closed below its 100 week moving average tilting the bias to the downside on that chart. The price fell -9.88% on the week.
- Bitcoin is trading at $16,633. That is little changed on the day. For the week, the price recovered 2.0% after last weeks -22% plunge.
Existing home sales were lower than last month at 4.43M annualized pace vs 4.71M last month, but was higher than expectations at 4.38M. The decline was the 9th straight month decline. October sales fell 28.4% from a year earlier, the biggest annual decline since February 2008.