Last week, financial markets saw significant changes in investor sentiment. With the rise of coronavirus cases outside of China and the emergence of the first infected patients in the U.S., many market participants began to take a different view of this

Positive sentiment against the U.S. dollar continued to dominate the currency market last week as investors bought the world's reserve currency as a secure alternative due to China's raging coronavirus, which threatens to slow down global economic growth significantly.

Last week, the coronavirus and news from China, where the vast majority of infected patients are present, remained in the spotlight of investors. Authorities in this country have increased the scale of quarantine that now covers 3 provinces and has about 400 million inh

The sentiment in the currency markets was volatile last week. At the beginning of the week, the U.S. dollar market was dominated by buyers, but as of Thursday, the balance shifted and sellers gained momentum, prompting a -0.5% depreciation of the U.S. dollar index in on

Last week, investors remained cautious and tended to buy U.S. dollars, whose value peaked since early December 2019. There has been no major change in the political arena and the market was led by a general risk sentiment among market participants.

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