Economic news

EUR/USD is trading at 1.17648 as of 10:26 UTC on 9 September 2025, holding near the upper end of its intraday range of 1.1706-1.1779 amid broad-based US dollar weakness.

Another milestone for the tech-heavy index helps keep the technical overview bullish, but in sentiment it’s a story of opposing bias when it comes to CoT speculators and Capital.com’s clients.

It has been a story of relative calm and slight positive technical bias ahead of the fundamental events, with CoT speculators net long while Capital.com clients shift to the middle.

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The technical overview remains unchanged in both daily and weekly time frames, while in sentiment CoT speculators raised their net sell bias.

Interest rates rose from under 1% to over 4% over the past five years—the sharpest spike since the late 1970s. Back then, this spike triggered the double-dip recession, bringing two downturns within three years.

The technical overview remains volatile given the uptick in intraday price action combined with record highs, while in sentiment still a story of majority long bias among both clients and institutional traders.

It has made quick work of the infamous $40 level to comfortably move within the handle, and it’s still a story of majority long sentiment among traders both large and small

Shares fall over 3% in extended trading following the event, yet to derail most of its key technical indicators and where client sentiment is still very much in extreme buy territory.

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