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Issue #248Wednesday, 5 August 2026 · 4-minute read
Dollar softens as jobless claims cool the rate-cut debate
EUR/USD reclaims 1.0840; gold presses fresh three-week high before US data deluge.
- The greenback is losing the argument one data point at a time01 · Dollar
- 1.0855 is the only number that matters today02 · EUR/USD
- Gold is the cleanest expression of the rate-cut trade03 · Gold
- The intervention band is doing the Bank of Japan's work for it04 · Yen
- ISM services at 14:00 GMT is the last read before payrolls05 · The day
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