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For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the GBP rose 0.97% against the USD and closed at 1.5335, extending its previous session gains. Yesterday, the BoE made no changes in its monetary policy and maintained its key interest rate unchanged at a record-low of 0.5...
For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the EUR rose 1.23% against the USD and closed at 1.1477, on the back of stronger than expected factory orders data in Germany, coupled with the European Commission's upbeat assessment about the Euro-economy. Data showed that German factory orders rebounded 4...
Economic Data (AU) AUSTRALIA JAN AIG PERFORMANCE OF CONSTRUCTION INDEX: 45.9 V 44.4 PRIOR; 3rd month of contraction (JP) JAPAN JAN OFFICIAL RESERVE ASSETS: $1.26T V $1.26T PRIOR Index Snapshot (as of 03:30 GMT) Nikkei225 +0.6%, S&P/ASX +0.3%, Kospi -0.2%, Shanghai Composite -1...
The TD Securities Team previews the data ahead for US, anticipating a 245k gain in headline payrolls...
For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the USD declined 0.46% against the CHF and closed at 0.9214. The Swiss Franc gained ground, after Switzerland's SECO consumer confidence data surprisingly improved to a reading of -6.0 in January, confounding market expectations of a fall to a level of -13.0...
Gold prices on Comex rallied to fresh session highs, snapping losses from the previous session. However, gold prices are poised to record biggest weekly loss in almost two months. Rises from 1262.50 levels Currently, gold trades higher by 0.40% at 1267...
For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the USD declined 1.09% against the CAD to close at 1.2434. In economic news, the international merchandise trade deficit in Canada widened to CAD0.65 billion in December, compared to market expectations of a trade deficit of CAD1.10 billion...
Asian shares climbed this Friday, ahead of the key U.S. non-farm payrolls report for January later in the session and after mixed views on the economy in Australia. Greece's drama is being eyed...
As expected, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just announced that it voted to maintain the Bank Rate and the stock of asset purchases at 0.50% and GBP375bn, respectively. There was no statement in connection with the announcement...
Market players themselves must better understand moral hazard; that in return for taking the big bucks, there are penalties for stupidity. Gone are the days when we used to glibly say in the broking business. “Market up, market down; put them in, take them out. Two commissions...
Yet another project is graduating from experiment to proper part of Google. Only two weeks ago, Glass left the confines of the Skunk Works-like Google X and became its own division headed up by Nest co-founder Tony Fadell...
Following the RBA Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy, in which no forward guidance was offered, the Australian IB is now pricing a 19% chance of March cut against the 30%+ pre-release. The change of dynamics in price action following the major reversal off 0...
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ FX Team offers his outlook int the EUR/USD for the week ahead. Key Quotes "The US dollar has lost some upward momentum early this month after very strong gains recorded in January...
Valeria Bednarik, chief analyst at FXStreet explained that GBP/USD trades near a fresh 5-week high of 1.5342 early in the Asian session. Key Quotes: "Boosted by broad dollar weakness and stronger than expected house prices in January in the UK according to the Halifax measure, which rose 2.0% m/m...
-“USDCAD has pushed through the 2007 high at 1.1875, 61.8% extension of the 2007-2009 rally from the 2011 low at 1.1882, and several upward sloping parallels. The next cluster of technical levels is between 1.25 and 1.2730.” -USDCAD nearly traded 1...
Examples of trades with strategy using indicator ToWave. After that - weekly results 29.01-04.02.2015 (+101 pips). Summary from 15.01-04.02.2015 +433 pips. Strategy was described in my blog early. https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/312436 Very unfortunate days. Yena could not find move direction...
Examples of trades with strategy using indicator ToWave. After that - weekly results 29.01-04.02.2015 (+101 pips). Summary from 15.01-04.02.2015 +433 pips. Strategy was described in my blog early. https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/312436 Very infortunate days. Yena could not find move direction...
AUD/USD is shaping into a decent technical trade, although it’s probably best to stay out of the way until after non-farm payrolls. The shorter-term chart has traced out an inverted head & shoulders pattern that will be completed with a break of 0.7850/00. The measured target is close to 0...
Denmark’s biggest investor, pension fund ATP, says it hasn’t bothered setting up a hedge to protect its assets if the krone’s peg to the euro should break because the scenario is too far-fetched to warrant such a move...
USOil bottom could be in place In recent months, consolidationshave given traders excellent short opportunities…until now Daily double bottom formation with a higher high has eyes on price forming a higher low On January 22nd, I posted a piece suggesting the bulls were premature due to a repeatin...