There's no stopping the price of Platinum: Yesterday, it climbed above the $1,400 per troy ounce mark for the first time since September 2014, Commerzbank's Head of FX and Commodity Research Thu Lan Nguyen and commodity analyst Barbara Lambrecht note.
The cryptocurrency market shows signs of cooling after staging a recovery from the weekend sell-off. Bitcoin (BTC) led the upswing, briefly stepping above $108,000 on Thursday before pulling back to consolidate at around $107,147 at the time of writing on Friday.
NZD/USD continues its winning streak for the fifth consecutive session, trading around 0.6070 during the European hours on Friday. The pair gained ground as the US Dollar (USD) struggled due to renewed concerns over the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) independence.