\ud83d\udcca Asian Markets Asia sold off sharply as oil spiked and Middle East tensions escalated. Nikkei 225 slid ~2.9%, dropping below 65,000. Shanghai Composite fell 1.2% to 3,830. South Korea\u2019s KOSPI tumbled 3.7%. MSCI Asia-Pacific ex-Japan down 1%. Sell-off followed a Wall Street tech rout after weak Alphabet and Tesla\u00a0results.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcb5 Forex USD firm on safe-haven demand and rising yields. Dollar Index at 101.46\u200a\u2014\u200ahighest this month. USD\/JPY at 163.89, yen near 40-year lows. US 10-year yield hit an 18-month high near\u00a04.70%.<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udd47 Metals & Oil Oil surged\u200a\u2014\u200aBrent held at $100.85 after a 7% overnight spike to $102, a two-month high, as Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping and near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz hit supply. Gold eased to $4,043 (\u20110.1% today, \u20112% overnight). Silver at $57.45 after a 3.4%\u00a0drop.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcc5 Today\u2019s Focus \ud83d\udd39 Escalating Gulf conflict\u200a\u2014\u200aUS strikes on Iran, Iran retaliation on regional US bases \ud83d\udd39 Central bank repricing\u200a\u2014\u200amarkets now see a 1-in-3 chance of a Fed hike as soon as next week \ud83d\udd39 ECB left rates unchanged; a September hike is ~70% priced\u00a0in<\/p>\n
\u26a1 Stay sharp, stay informed\u200a\u2014\u200atrade smart with\u00a0NordFX!<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udf05 NordFX Morning Update \u2014 July 24, 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":" \ud83d\udcca Asian Markets Asia sold off sharply as oil spiked and Middle East tensions escalated. Nikkei 225 slid ~2.9%, dropping below 65,000. Shanghai Composite fell 1.2% to 3,830. South Korea\u2019s KOSPI tumbled 3.7%. MSCI Asia-Pacific ex-Japan down 1%. Sell-off followed a Wall Street tech rout after weak Alphabet and Tesla\u00a0results. \ud83d\udcb5 Forex USD firm on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":203572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203571","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\/203571"}],"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=203571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}