{"id":101702,"date":"2025-08-29T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101702\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:18:06","slug":"markets-turn-the-page-on-august-trading-market-wrap-for-the-north-american-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101702\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets turn the page on August trading \u2013 Market wrap for the North American session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"5s8ai\">Log in to today&#8217;s North American session Market wrap for August 29<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s session brought some extra volatility to complement a fairly dull trading week \u2013\u00a0Forex Markets had no idea of where to go, with all major pairs rangebound since the weekly open.<\/p>\n<p>Some month-end flows brought Silver and Gold to their highs, and since the end of the London session, Equities have sold off.<\/p>\n<p>Month-end profit-taking is nothing to be afraid off particularly amid ever-growing stock indices, but after a few months of (relative) calm in geopolitics, it seems that tensions are on the rise again.<\/p>\n<p>European powerhouses (France, Germany and the UK) are mad at Iran for not respecting atomic deals (anyone surprised?), Russia and Ukraine get further from a truce, and after reaching deals at the beginning of the month, as the deadlines were coming to their end, some countries like Japan want to review their tariff deals.<\/p>\n<p>September is a traditionally volatile month, but with the current state of things, it seems that this one should be a rollercoaster.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at August, cryptocurrencies performed very well, the US Dollar rejected its highs (particularly after the month-beginning NFP report), energy commodities took a hit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketpulse.com\/markets\/silver-xag-and-other-metals-in-focus-as-the-federal-reserve-independance-gets-challenged\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">metals saw big up-swings towards the end of the month<\/a>, and equities, despite going higher, slowed their pace quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Some record highs for the S&amp;P 500 and Dow Jones were still reached and the\u00a0&#8220;Sell in May and go away&#8221; adage is still not performing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Log in to today&#8217;s North American session Market wrap for August 29 Today&#8217;s session brought some extra volatility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,467,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-101702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}