🌅 Morning Market Update | 21.05.2025 📉 U.S. stock index futures are slipping between -0.2% and -0.3%, while Europe is bracing for a softer open as futures point slightly lower. 📆 With a quiet macro calendar today (except 🇬🇧 UK CPI data), traders will turn their focus to speeches from Fed and ECB officials for fresh signals. 💵 The U.S. dollar remains under pressure — EUR/USD has surged above 1.133, gaining over +0.4%. Surprisingly, this comes despite 10-year U.S. Treasury yields jumping back above 4.5%. 🟡 Bitcoin is climbing over +1%, now hovering near all-time highs around $108,000, buoyed by dollar weakness. 💻 Ethereum is gaining +3.3%, while Uniswap is leading the rally among altcoins with a +7% surge. 🛢️ API data showed an unexpected +2.5M barrel rise in U.S. crude oil inventories (vs. a forecasted -1.8M). Despite this, oil prices are up +1%, ahead of today’s EIA release at 14:30 GMT. 🔥 Natural gas is down -1.5%, correcting after yesterday’s +10% rally. 🏅 In metals, the mood is mixed: – Gold holds above $3,300, adding +0.3% – Platinum drops -1.5% after yesterday’s bounce 🌽 In agri-commodities, volatility is low, but the bias remains positive. 📈 🔍 Stay tuned — markets are watching central banks and energy data closely today.