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FinancialJuice: US sends team to Beirut to shore up Israel-Hizbollah ceasefire - FT.

Only one thing has driven FX markets this year - Deutche Bank

Deutsche Bank has a simple message for anyone trying to trade currencies on headlines this year: stop. A war in the Middle East, a leadership change at the Fed, wild swings in tech valuations — and none of it has mattered as much as one thing. The bank's analysis shows yield has been the dominant driver of 2026 currency moves. Deutsche Bank's George Saravelos explains it by saying that when growth holds up, volatility stays contained and yield differentials get paid. " It is the impressive resilience of global growth, which is allowing carry to prevail and, as we argued a few weeks ago, it is likely this regime persists in coming months," Saravelos writes in a note today. Start with the yen, because it's the cleanest illustration of the problem. The JPY's issue is math. Front-end yields are simply too low against the rest of the world, and in a carry regime that's a death sentence. DB sees only two ways out in the second half: either the BoJ races to 2% faster than markets price, or T

Comex Gold Ends the Week 0.21% Lower at $4104.10

Gold settled down 0.6% Friday, and silver fell 0.9%, with both metals also posting losses for the week.