{"id":293512,"date":"2021-02-01T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gomarketingteam.com\/articles\/week-ahead-equities-slide-us-dollar-rallies-and-reddit-raids-silver\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:12:56","slug":"week-ahead-equities-slide-us-dollar-rallies-and-reddit-raids-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/en\/weekly-summaries\/week-ahead-equities-slide-us-dollar-rallies-and-reddit-raids-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Ahead: Equities slide, US Dollar rallies and Reddit raids silver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Lachlan Meakin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wall Street suffered a 2% sell off on Friday capping off a poor week for global equity markets. All major European, Asian and US Indices finished decidedly in the red as stimulus euphoria post the new US administrations inauguration seems to have faded. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Equity Markets<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Indices posted their worst week since October with the Dow sliding over 3% and the tech heavy NASDAQ down nearly 3.5%<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/equity_010221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australian, European and Asian markets also had steep declines while investors are impatient for hard evidence that COVID vaccines are working and that the promised U.S. stimulus will actually be passed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A very busy week ahead in economic news with the RBA rates decision on Tuesday, NZ and Canadian Employment and the all important monthly non-farm payrolls out of the US on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also a busy week in US earnings with Tech behemoths Alphabet (GOOGL) and Amazon(AMZN) reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Picture2_010221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"917\" \/><br \/>\nSource: https:\/\/www.ii.co.uk<\/p>\n<h4><strong>FX Markets<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With equity markets in risk off mode last week the US dollar seems to have regained its safe haven status somewhat, with the US Dollar index rallying around 0.3%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday sees the monthly non-farm employment report out of the US. This is an extremely important figure to gauge how the US economy is improving, volatility over the figure is to be expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The risk on AUD dropped almost 1% against the greenback closing below recent weekly support levels. AUD traders will be eagerly awaiting the RBA rate statement on Tuesday to give clues of future rate moves and AUD direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/currency_010221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"368\" \/><br \/>\nSource: GO MT4<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Commodities<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Oil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite a much larger draw on Crude inventories than was expected last week, US crude continues to whipsaw in a tight range. We again saw crude bounce off both support and resistance and finish flat for the week. Wednesday night sees the latest crude inventories report released and with non-farm payrolls on Friday we could see crude break this range one way or another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Oil_010221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"435\" \/><br \/>\nSource: GO MT4<\/p>\n<p><b>Silver<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Precious metal to watch this week is silver. With an impressive 7% rally last week despite dollar strength completely outperforming it\u2019s big brother Gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trader bro\u2019s of Reddit, infamous for the recent parabolic rise in Gamestop have reportedly set their sights on silver. Whether they can move a market this size to any great extent remains to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Silver_010221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"387\" \/><br \/>\nSource: GO MT4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lachlan Meakin<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 171px;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 728px; height: 75px;\" colspan=\"7\"><strong>Tuesday, 02 February 2021<\/strong><strong style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Indicative Index Dividends<br \/>\n<em><sup>Dividends are in Points<\/sup><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>ASX200<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>WS30<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>US500<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>US2000<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 108px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>NDX100<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>CAC40<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>STOXX50<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\">6.777<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"69\">0.039<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 24px;\" width=\"69\">0.024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 108px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\">0.171<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"69\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"69\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>ESP35<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>ITA40<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>FTSE100<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>DAX30<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 108px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>HK50<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>JP225<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 24px;\" width=\"100\"><strong>INDIA50<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 22px;\" width=\"69\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 22px;\" width=\"100\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 22px;\" width=\"100\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; height: 22px;\" width=\"100\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 108px; height: 22px;\" width=\"69\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 22px;\" width=\"100\">0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 104px; height: 22px;\" width=\"100\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"\/forex-education-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Next-Steps-Blog-Bottom-Banner.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer:\u00a0\u00a0The articles are from GO Markets analysts, \u00a0based on their independent analysis or personal experiences. 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