🔵 Key Market Movements

🔸 US stocks hold at record highs, while oil prices rise amid escalating Middle East tensions and supply concerns.

🔸 Oil remains in focus due to developments in the Strait of Hormuz, coinciding with upward revisions to crude price forecasts.

🔸 The Federal Reserve returns to the spotlight as expectations for tighter monetary policy grow, should energy and tariff-related pressures persist.

🔸 The dollar strengthens against the yen and sterling amidst market caution.

⬅️ Key events to watch: US oil inventories
🇺🇸 Trump’s speech
🏦 Federal Reserve meeting minutes

Gold, oil, and the dollar in focus.

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