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FXWIREPRO: EUR/USD Gains Some Upside Momentum But Outlook Strongly Bearish EUR has made short squeeze against US dollar by hitting high at 1.1263 after negative Existing Home Sales. However, the gains should be limited around 1.1280 as the resistance level at 1...

Brexit Uncertainties Unlikely to Cause Sharp Sell-Off in Cee Assets While Emerging Markets in 3Q15 recorded the strongest portfolio capital outflows since 2008, CEE managed to avoid heavy sell-offs...

EUR/USD: Stochastic is Leaving Overbought Zone Following the US Fed decision on 16 March, the pair EUR/USD has grown over 200 points, exceeding Fibonacci retracement of 23.6% to the last wave of decline with the highs of 2014 crossing the level of 1.1285, over 60 points...

EUR/USD: in the Zone of Local Extremums It seems that participants of the financial markets have been puzzled by the decisions of the US Fed and some other central banks...

U.S. Existing Home Sales Pull Back Much More Than Expected In February After reaching their highest annual rate in six months in January, existing home sales in the U.S...

WTI Survives Above $41.00 Crude oil prices have managed to leave behind the initial offered tone, recovering the area of highs above the $41.00 mark...

FXWIREPRO: USD/CAD Regains Upward Movement After Oil Rebound Fades The USD/CAD surged higher on Monday, as oil prices declined towards 41.16 $ per barrel...

Swedish Companies More Optimistic On Economy: Riksbank Survey Swedish companies are now more optimistic about the economic situation though they facing difficulties in raising prices, results of the Riksbank's February 2016 Business Survey showed Monday...

Australian Dollar Off Early Lows Against Most Majors The Australian dollar came off from its early lows against most major counterparts in European trading on Monday. The aussie recovered to 0.7626 against the greenback and 85.07 against the yen, off early 4-day low of 0...

Croatia Retail Sales Fall For First Time In 5 Months Croatia's retail sales decreased at the start of the year, after rising in the previous four months, figures from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. Retail sales volume dropped a seasonally and working-day-adjusted 0...

UK: Politics is Going to be More Important than Economics - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the politics is going to be more important than economics for the next three months in the UK and so far, both major political parties seem pretty keen on tearing the...

Australian Stock Exchange CEO Quits Amid Bribe Investigation The head of Australia's main stock exchange resigned on Monday amid an investigation into allegations that a gaming firm he once ran made a bribery payment several years ago to the family of Cambodia's prime minister...

Asian Stocks Gain as Shanghai Composite Jumps to Two-Month High Asian stocks rallied in late trading, with a regional gauge erasing declines, as Chinese shares climbed above the 3,000 level for the first time since January after policy makers loosened controls on margin lending...

Yen Slides Against Most Majors Reversing direction, the Japanese yen slipped against its most major rivals in early European deals on Monday. The yen edged down to 75.75 against the kiwi, 115.02 against the franc and 85.60 against the loonie, off early 5-day high of 75.13, 4-day highs of 114...

Italy Current Account Deficit Narrows In January Italy's current account deficit decreased slightly in January from a year ago, figures from the Bank of Italy showed Monday. The current account deficit narrowed to EUR 1.07 billion in January from EUR 1...

Brexit Could Cost UK £100bn – Investec Research Team at Investec, notes that the report commissioned by the CBI and carried out by accountancy firm PwC, warns a Brexit could potentially cost the country £100bn and nearly one million jobs by 2020...

Risk Recovery More Important than Data for USD - BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, suggests that the Fed Presidents Lacker and Lockhart speak today and may emphasize the possibility that policy could be tightened in June, even as these comments could be balanced by the more dovish Presidents Eva...

USD/JPY Unmotivated Around 111.50 USD/JPY is trading almost unchanged at the beginning of the week, trading in a narrow range between 111.20 and 111.60...

Technical Analysis of NZD/CAD for March 21, 2016 NZD/CAD has been moving sideways for almost two weeks; and this does not seem to be over as the price remains within slightly descending main channel boundaries...