EURUSD is consolidating recent gains after a strong rally from the 1.1600 area to 1.1900. A neutral phase is expected in the near-term as the market became overextended and the daily RSI indicator is indicating momentum has weakened after reaching near overbought levels at 70. EURUSD is expected to be supported on dips at key […]
The first week of December will get off to a packed start with a number of key indicators and central bank meetings set to keep traders busy. Among the highlights are Australian GDP figures for the third quarter, European industrial output figures and US nonfarm payrolls. Also in focus are central bank meetings in Australia […]
This week, several records have been broken. Bitcoin crossed the $10,000 mark while Ethereum reached its all-time high of $517. In the United States, the major indices continued their winning streak. On Thursday, the Dow cruised through the psychological $24,000 level while the S&P reached an all-time high price of $2645. The upward move was […]
Here are the latest developments in global markets: FOREX: The pound turned to be the worst performer among major currencies despite impressive manufacturing PMI figures, trading below the $1.3500 key level after touching a fresh two-month high of 1.3548 early in the Asian trading (-0.25%). Eurozone’s manufacturing PMI stood at multi-year highs, but the euro […]
Asian equities projected a mixed picture today. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 and the Topix indices finished the day higher by 0.4% and 0.25% respectively. Earlier in the day, the Nikkei advanced by as much as 1.2% to stand at its highest since 1992, however it didn’t manage to sustain those gains. Hong Kong’s Hang […]
GBPJPY maintains a bullish intra-day bias after breaching the key 152 level yesterday. The pair has breached the upper end of the two-month consolidative range after a strong rally. Strong support held at the 147 level and GBPJPY bounced off the bottom of the range to rise with strong momentum all the way back to […]
Here are the latest developments in global markets: FOREX: The dollar retained its strength against the yen, trading near a 1-½ -week high, finding support from rising US Treasury yields, while the euro was last flat on a weekly basis versus the greenback after advancing in the three preceding weeks. Pound/dollar stretched its uptrend to […]
On Thursday, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporters) and non-OPEC producers led by Russia agreed to keep output cuts until the end of 2018. However, they also agreed to a possible early end of the agreement if the market overheats. The markets had already “priced-in” the extension of the agreement past its previous March 2018 end. […]
USDCAD is neutral for now after a correction of the long-term downtrend stalled ahead of the key 1.3000 level. The market is trading in a range and capped below the 200-day moving average. USDCAD has climbed to the upper end of the one-month range and has found strong resistance at the 50% Fibonacci retracement (1.2922) […]
It’s been almost two years since the Bank of Japan decided to adopt an aggressive monetary stimulus using negative interest rates to end deflation and force price growth up to the central bank’s stability target of 2.0%. However, the BOJ’s preferred inflation measure, the core CPI index which excludes volatile items, showed a slow reaction since the […]
Gold was one of the first currencies in history, one of the first luxury items fawned over that later became the standard that most government issued currencies were equated to. Today it is in most consumer and industrial electronics, in astronaut’s visors and as decoration on overpriced edibles. Just like anything else that has […]
The Canadian dollar is once again on the verge of breaching the 50% Fibonacci retracement level of its impressive May-September uptrend. The currency has been suffering from the paring back of expectations of additional rate hikes by the Bank of Canada over the coming months, concerns about difficult NAFTA renegotiations and a stronger US dollar. […]
For the second time this year, XM returned to Mexico to provide free on-site education on forex trading techniques to online investors ready to develop their trading skills. The seminar hosted by XM and presented by the renowned Academia the Mercados was held in Mexico City and in Monterrey this November, welcoming numerous traders who […]
Here are the latest developments in global markets: Forex: The euro dived to a one-week low versus the dollar and approached a one-month low against the pound after flash inflation estimates out of the Eurozone inched below expectations in November, whereas the block’s unemployment rate ticked down, hitting fresh multi-year lows. Pound/dollar was on track to post a third straight green […]
A selloff in tech stocks yesterday in the US reverberated into Asia today with the sector underperforming and weighing on major benchmarks. The Nikkei 225 and the Topix, which more broadly gauges Japanese equity performance, finished the day higher by 0.6% and 0.3% respectively. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 1.5% with all industry sectors in […]
NZDUSD appears to be carving out a lower top after reversing back down from the November 28 high of 0.6945. The recent corrective move from 0.6780 stalled and downside momentum gained speed, turning the focus back to the downside. Looking at the 4-hour chart, RSI is now in bearish territory below 50, suggesting the downside […]
Here are the latest developments in global markets: FOREX: The dollar was firmer against its major peers but headed for a monthly loss as a rising pound and a stronger euro capped gains arising from investors’ positive sentiment on the US economy despite ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Korean peninsula. Against the yen, the greenback […]
Data released on Wednesday showed that the US economy expanded at its quickest pace since 2014 in Q3. The US Commerce Department said that GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.3% in the July to September period — the highest reading since Q3 2014. The release beat market forecasts of 3.2% growth and was […]
USDJPY maintains its medium-term trading range between 108 and 114.50 as a result of entering a consolidation phase after a rally to 118.66 in December 2016. The pair is now trading above the mid-point of the range. USDJPY has been closing above the key 111 in the past two months, making it a strong support […]
Chinese official manufacturing and services PMIs for the month of November are due on Thursday at 0100 GMT, while Caixin’s respective measure for the manufacturing sector is scheduled for release on Friday at 0145 GMT. According to analysts’ projections, the official manufacturing PMI will decline to 51.4 in November from October’s 51.6. Despite the ongoing […]
The US dollar and the British pound remained the day’s biggest winners in European trading on Wednesday on increased hopes of big tax cuts in the United States and the UK and the EU edging closer to a deal on the Brexit divorce terms. Most majors came under pressure from the stronger greenback, including the […]
Asian equities didn’t seem much affected by a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch (ICBM) that landed in the Sea of Japan, the first such launch in more than two months. The Japanese Nikkei 225 and the Topix indices finished higher by 0.5% and 0.8% respectively. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.2% and the Shanghai […]
EURJPY has a more positive bias today after breaking above the shorter-period moving average (20-MA) on the 4-hour chart. There was a bullish crossover of the 20 with the 50-period MA. The pair’s failure to make a sustained break below the bottom of the medium-term range at 131.50 has kept the market neutral in a […]
The pound rallied on foreign exchange markets on reports that the UK and the EU had agreed on a Brexit bill while the US dollar and risk sentiment more generally were helped by the passage of the Republican tax cut package through a Senate committee. These developments helped markets shake off worries about a new […]
Earlier today, North Korea launched an ICBM that flew higher and further than any previous test firing. The missile was launched from just north of Pyongyang, reaching a height of nearly 3 kilometers and landed 600 miles east, in the Sea of Japan. This latest test firing, 2-months on from the last, is a direct […]
Oils traders have been watching OPEC and OPEC+ meetings closely – even though their attempt to stifle oil production had been derailed, both by some of its own members and by the U.S. ramping up their own production to offset the slowing of production. Their intent was to slow production to diminish global crude reserves […]
AUDUSD continues its downward trajectory and is hovering at its lowest levels in more than 5 months. The outlook has turned increasingly bearish after the market broke below the 200-day moving average. The recent bounce off 0.7531 (November 21 low) was capped at the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level (0.7630) of the 0.7328 – 0.8124 rise. […]
GDP estimates and data on personal consumption expenditures (PCE) are two keenly awaited releases this week in the United States as the December FOMC meeting approaches when a rate hike is widely anticipated. However, the data will likely get overshadowed by the Senate debate on the Republican tax plan, where a vote could come as […]
The day’s main release pertained to US consumer confidence figures released late in the session. Those came in at a multi-year high, creating a positive backdrop for the greenback for the remainder of the day. Beyond this, new Fed chief Jerome Powell appearing before US senators, US tax reform deliberations and developments that could affect […]
Most major Asian benchmarks finished lower during today’s trading though their losses were limited. The Nikkei 225 closed marginally lower and Japan’s broader gauge of equity performance, the Topix, was down by 0.3%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng finished only marginally down, and the Shanghai Composite added 0.3%. Chinese equities posted a rebound after being under […]
