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BNY reports that Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel has signaled a likely European Central Bank rate hike in June unless the outlook improves, reinforcing a hawkish bias.

BNY’s Bob Savage highlights that suspected FX intervention has driven a sharp Japanese Yen rebound, with the Ministry of Finance signaling readiness to act in both currency and crude oil futures. The focus is now on key USD/JPY levels around 155–158 as authorities seek to counter Yen weakness.

Higher oil prices drove the first-quarter adjusted earnings at ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) above the analyst estimates as the jump in prices more than offset lower oil and gas production in the Middle East and Kazakhstan. Exxon on Friday reported adjusted earnings excluding identified items of $4.9 billi

AUD/USD trades around 0.7200 on Friday at the time of writing, virtually unchanged on the day and holding near recent highs, as markets adopt a wait-and-see approach ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monetary policy decision scheduled for Tuesday.

European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said on Friday that without a clear timeline for the end of the conflict in the Middle East, he is concerned about a "higher-for-longer" energy price scenario, per Reuters.

In a statement published on Friday, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack explained her decision to dissent against the Fed keeping an easing bias in the policy statement, saying that a "clear easing bias" is no longer appropriate given the current outlook.

Gold (XAU/USD) edges lower on Friday, heading for a second straight weekly decline as higher-for-longer interest rate expectations continue to dominate price action amid rising inflation concerns driven by elevated Oil prices.

Bank of England (BoE) Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Friday that a tightening in financial conditions seem as a reasonable response to the inflation risk from the US-Iran war, per Reuters.