{"id":130827,"date":"2018-07-26T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=130827"},"modified":"2018-07-26T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:50:17","slug":"the-us-dollar-index-went-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/07\/the-us-dollar-index-went-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Dollar Index Went Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-4008648765\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">July 26, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justforex.com\/?utm_source=countingpips&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=analytics_market_overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>JustForex<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">The US dollar weakened yesterday against the basket of major currencies after the release of a report on new home sales in the US. In June, sales fell to 631K, while experts expected 669K. The US dollar index (#DX) closed in the negative zone (-0.43%). Also yesterday, negotiations between President of the European Commission Junker and US President Trump were held, at which officials had to discuss trade duties. Investors expect the results of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">Yesterday, the IFO business climate index of Germany was also published, which counted to 101.7 and was above the forecasted value of 101.6. Today, participants in financial markets took a wait-and-see attitude before the ECB decision on the interest rate. It is expected that the interest rate will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">The &#8220;black gold&#8221; prices are rising amid a reduction in crude oil inventories. At the moment, futures for WTI crude oil are testing a mark of $69.45 per barrel.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ag-analytics_title\">Market Indicators<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">Yesterday, the bullish sentiment was observed in the US stock market: #SPY (+0.85%), #DIA (+0.72%), #QQQ (+1.40%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">At the moment, the yield of 10-year US government bonds is at the level of 2.95-2.96%.<\/p><div id=\"inves-3057127646\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<div class=\"ag-analytics_list-title\">The news feed on 2018.07.26:<\/div>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">&#8211; A decision on the interest rate by ECB at 14:45 (GMT+3:00);<\/p>\n<p class=\"ag-analytics_text\">&#8211; Core durable goods orders in the US at 15:30 (GMT+3:00).<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justforex.com\/?utm_source=countingpips&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=analytics_market_overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>JustForex<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0JustForex The US dollar weakened yesterday against the basket of major currencies after the release of a report on new home sales in the US. In June, sales fell to 631K, while experts expected 669K. The US dollar index (#DX) closed in the negative zone (-0.43%). Also yesterday, negotiations between President of the European Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130828,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130827\/revisions\/130828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}