- The world’s major stock index, the S&P 500 Index, closed at a new 5-month high price yesterday, having regained almost all its losses made during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Silver rose by more than 8% yesterday against the U.S. Dollar, hitting over $23 an ounce for the first time in 6 years. It may still rise higher.
- Gold rose to a new 8-year high price in U.S. Dollar terms and is only $50 off its all-time high price made in 2011. It may still rise higher.
- A significantly strong movement has been felt in the Forex market after several weeks of low activity. The AUD/USD currency pair reached a new 1-year high and the EUR/USD reached a new 18-month high and is likely to rise higher.
- The U.S. Dollar’s sell-off has accelerated, while the Euro and the Australian Dollar again look like the strongest major currencies today. The U.S. Dollar is in a confirmed long-term downwards trend after making a technical “death cross” two weeks ago.
- Australia announced its largest budget deficit in over 70 years, while its new coronavirus cases hit an all-time daily high.
- Daily coronavirus deaths in South Africa hit a new high.
- Coronavirus global deaths tolls have begun to rise in a steady trend again, with deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean at 46% of the global daily total, well exceeding those in both the U.S.A. (15%) and Europe (approx. 7%) which shows that the epicenter of the pandemic is well established in Latin America. The head of the Pan-American Health Organization said earlier this week that the virus shows “no signs of slowing down” in the Americas. Deaths in the U.S.A. have been rising for two weeks, with states in the south and west seeing high rates of new infections.
- Total confirmed new coronavirus cases stand at over 15.2 million with an average case fatality rate of 4.09%.
- South Africa has more confirmed cases than any other country except the U.S.A., Brazil, India, and Russia.
- Brazil continues to see more daily deaths from coronavirus than any other country in the world.
- The rate of new coronavirus infections appears to now be increasing most quickly in the United States, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Sudan, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.