{"id":89843,"date":"2025-08-20T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=89843"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:23:00","slug":"morning-market-update-20-08-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=89843","title":{"rendered":"Morning Market Update\u200a\u2014\u200a20.08.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\ud83d\udcca <strong>Morning Market Update\u200a\u2014\u200a20.08.2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Nasdaq 100 dropped by 1.4% yesterday\u200a\u2014\u200aits second-steepest fall since April\u2019s tariff shock, led by Nvidia. While over 350 S&amp;P 500 stocks rose, megacaps dragged the index\u00a0down.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc9 Wall Street futures are also under pressure today:<br \/> \ud83d\udd39 US100, US500, US30 are down 0.3%\u20130.4%<br \/> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa In Europe, DE40 and UK100 futures are slightly lower\u00a0too.<\/p>\n<p>\u23f3 Markets await:<br \/> \ud83d\udd58 Final Eurozone inflation data (09:00 GMT)<br \/> \ud83d\udd55 US FOMC minutes (18:00 GMT)<br \/> \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Fed speakers Waller &amp;\u00a0Bostic<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 PBoC kept its key rate unchanged at 3.5%, as expected.<br \/> \ud83d\udcc8 HK.cash and CHN.cash futures are up\u00a00.5%<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb1 <strong>Forex Focus:<\/strong><br \/> \ud83d\udd3b EUR\/USD slips 0.1%<br \/> \ud83d\udca5 NZD\/USD is the most volatile pair today, down 1% after RBNZ cut rates to a 3-year low\u200a\u2014\u200amore easing may follow. The \u2018Kiwi\u2019 is under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc9 US Treasury yields fall as markets await Powell\u2019s Jackson Hole speech on Friday\u200a\u2014\u200a10Y yield drops to 4.31%.<br \/> \ud83d\udcac S&amp;P Global Ratings: Tariff revenues may help offset tax cuts and support credit\u00a0outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udee2\ufe0f <strong>Commodities:<\/strong><br \/> \ud83d\udfe2 Oil rebounds 0.5% after a weak session and bullish US API data (-2.4M barrels).<br \/> \u26fd Gasoline stocks also fell; NATGAS down\u00a00.5%<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb0 <strong>Crypto Corner:<\/strong><br \/> \ud83d\udfe0 Bitcoin is trying to stabilise around $113,600 after yesterday\u2019s drop<br \/> \ud83d\udfe3 Ethereum remains weak at $4,180 vs $4,700+ earlier this\u00a0week<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Volatility in metals remains low this\u00a0morning.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd <em>Stay informed, stay ahead\u200a\u2014\u200atrade smarter with NordFX!<\/em>\u00a0\ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/morning-market-update-20-08-2025-3d50f39b170b\">\ud83d\udcca Morning Market Update\u200a\u2014\u200a20.08.2025<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcca Morning Market Update\u200a\u2014\u200a20.08.2025 \ud83d\udea8 Nasdaq 100 dropped by 1.4% yesterday\u200a\u2014\u200aits second-steepest fall since April\u2019s tariff shock, led by Nvidia. While over 350 S&amp;P 500 stocks rose, megacaps dragged the index\u00a0down. \ud83d\udcc9 Wall Street futures are also under pressure today: \ud83d\udd39 US100, US500, US30 are down 0.3%\u20130.4% \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa In Europe, DE40 and UK100 futures are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89843"}],"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=89843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}