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FxWirePro: NZD/USD Closes Bearish Gap After Upbeat CPI Data, Bias Higher NZD/USD has been highly volatile at the start of the week. Hit lows of 0.6843 after bearish gap open (around 40 pips lower). The pair has closed bearish gap after release of the much awaited CPI data, which beat expectations...

SDR Does Not Stand for “Secret Dollar Replacement” - BBH Research Team at BBH, notes that at the IMF/World Bank meetings last week, Chinese officials are again pushing for greater use of the IMF's unit of account, Special Drawing Rights (SDR...

FxWirePro: AUD/JPY Holds Cloud Base Support at 82.45, Breaks Below Could See Further Weakness Oil driven-risk-off after failure of Doha talks drives Yen higher across the board. AUD/JPY sees 120-pips bearish gap opening, recovers slightly from fresh four-day lows struck at 82.47 in early trades...

AUD/NZD May Target 0...

Gold Longs to Near All-Time Highs - TDS Research Team at TDS, lists down the CFTC Commitment of Traders Report for the Week Ending April 12th, 2016...

US Industrial Production in March: Bad, Bad and Bad - ING Rob Carnell, Chief International Economist at ING, notes that the US headline industrial production fell 0.6%MoM, manufacturing fell, utilities production fell and mining fell as well. Key Quotes “Following a 0...

NZD/USD Targets 0.7175 During the Month Ahead - Westpac Imre Speizer, Senior Market Strategist at Westpac, notes that the NZD/USD has oscillated around an upward trend since mid-Jan, and targets 0.7175 (Feb 2015 low) during the month ahead...

USD/JPY: Another Attempt Above 108 to Fill in Bearish Gap? The USD/JPY pair is seen struggling to extend the recovery from near 2016 lows since Tokyo open and now attempts another run above 108 handle to close the bearish opening gap...

FxWirePro: USD/JPY Slips Below 108 Handle After Large Bearish Gap down Open Yen was a big gainer on the day, USD/JPY opens with a large bearish gap down of over 0.70%, slips below the 108 handle...

EUR/USD Remains Capped Below 1.1300, Indifferent to Risk-Off A classic risk-off theme dominates Asia, although the EUR/USD pair fails to benefit from increased safe-haven demand and trades muted below 1.13 handle. EUR/USD rejection near 1.1310 Currently, EUR/USD trades almost unchanged at 1...

ASX200 Faces Resistance at 200 Day MA, Break Above Atrgets 5225/5275 Major resistance - 5158 (200 day MA) ASX200 has made a high of 5158 yesterday and slightly declined from that level. It is currently trading at 5148. The index should close above 5158 (200 day MA) for further trend reversal...

Bears Fleeing Fast as Emerging-Market Assets Roar Back to Life (Bloomberg) -- The best rally in emerging-market stocks and bonds in seven years is sending bears back into hibernation...

When Traders will Get to the 'Down and Dirty' Earnings from big tech, industrials and financial firms should all drive trading in the week ahead, but what traders are waiting for first is the fallout from Doha on oil prices...

Asia Stocks at Mercy of Post-Doha Oil Moves Futures pointed to weaker Asian markets on Monday, with oil in focus after an summit in Doha of top producers ended without an agreement...

Leveraged Funds Continue to Reduce Long USD Exposure - ANZ ANZ provides its take on the futures positioning data for the week ending 12 April 2016, noting that leveraged funds continue to reduce their net long USD exposure...

FxWirePro: Nikkei 225 Faces Strong Resistance at 16600, Good to Sell on Rallies Major resistance - 17000 The index has opened gap down today morning after making a high of 16926 yesterday .It is currently trading around 16336...

AUD/JPY Dumped 1 Big Figure Amid Oil Driven-Risk-Off The offered tone around the AUD/JPY cross weakened a bit in the mid-Asian session, allowing a tepid-bounce to 83 handle, only to find fresh at the last and now consolidates around 82.80 region...

USD/CAD on a Tear Post Doha, Bulls Aim to Re-Take 1.30 USD/CAD is on a tear this morning in Asia, last exchanging hands at 1.2985 day highs, after Oil talks in Doha failed to reach an agreement to freeze production levels. USD/CAD threatens to re-take 1...

USD/JPY: Sent Crashing to Test 2016 Lows USD/JPY is down to the test the 108 handle in this livelier than usual start to the week. USD/JPY opened early Asia with a large bearish gap of over 0.70% marking lows of 108.12 before further supply took the pair down to lows of 107...

NZD/USD: Back to Close Gap after CPI NZD/USD has been a volatile display at the start of Asia this week...