{"id":16992,"date":"2026-05-18T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linkpgm.com\/may-18th-market-inventory\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:55:19","slug":"may-18th-market-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/may-18th-market-inventory\/","title":{"rendered":"May 18th Market Inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, a wave of bond selling set off globally. As U.S. inflation data soared across the board, a number of key indicators hit multi-year highs, traders have now basically ruled out the possibility of the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year, while the year&#8217;s bets on interest rate hikes have warmed up. <br\/>Boosted by the Fed&#8217;s interest rate outlook tightening, the dollar index rose for four consecutive days, breaking through the key psychological barrier of 99, and ultimately closed up 0.42% at 99.28, refreshing the highs since the beginning of April; benchmark 10-year U.S. bond yields soared nearly 14 basis points to 4.596%, the highest level since February 2025, and hit the largest one-day increase in more than a year; the 2-year U.S. bond yields particularly sensitive to interest rate policy rose nearly 14 basis points to 4.596%, the highest level since February 2025, and hit the largest one-day increase in more than a year; the interest rate policy is particularly sensitive to the 2 year U.S. bond yields rose nearly 9 basis points to 4.075%. <br\/>The dollar higher directly impact on precious metals. Spot gold plunged more than $110 in a single day, losing the $4,540 mark, and finally closed down 2.41% at $4,538.45 per ounce; spot silver closed down 9.07% at $75.90 per ounce. <br\/>With the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz triggering market concerns about global inventory drawdowns, international oil prices rose significantly. wti crude ended up 3.12% at $105.22\/barrel; brent crude ended up 2.36% at $109.15\/barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, a wave of bond selling set off globally. As U.S. inflation data soared across the board, a number of key indicators hit multi-year highs, traders have now basically ruled out the possibility of the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year, while the year&#8217;s bets on interest rate hikes have warmed up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trading-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16993,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions\/16993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}