Markets enter the new week under pressure from two major forces: hot US inflation data and renewed tension around the Strait of Hormuz. The dollar has strengthened, oil remains highly sensitive to geopolitical headlines, while gold, silver and crypto are waiting for the next signal from the\u00a0Fed.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd11 Main event of the week: FOMC Minutes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
A hawkish tone could support the USD and put more pressure on EUR\/USD, gold, silver, Bitcoin and Ethereum. A softer message could trigger a relief bounce across risk\u00a0assets.<\/p>\n
Key levels to watch:
\ud83d\udcb6 EUR\/USD: pressure remains below 1.1675
\ud83d\udee2 Brent: bullish bias above $104
\ud83e\udd47 Gold: testing the $4,600-$4,550 support zone
\ud83e\udd48 Silver: volatile near $80-$84
\u20bf Bitcoin: holding near $79,000, with $82,228 as the breakout level
\ud83d\udd37 Ethereum: resistance remains around $2,361-$2,367<\/p>\n
Read the full forecast by NordFX Analytical Group: #NordFX #Forex #Crypto #Trading #EURUSD #Gold #Oil #Bitcoin #Ethereum #MarketForecast<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcca NordFX Forex and Cryptocurrency Forecast for May 18\u201322, 2026<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Markets enter the new week under pressure from two major forces: hot US inflation data and renewed tension around the Strait of Hormuz. The dollar has strengthened, oil remains highly sensitive to geopolitical headlines, while gold, silver and crypto are waiting for the next signal from the\u00a0Fed. \ud83d\udd11 Main event of the week: FOMC Minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":167095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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