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Gold Reaches 3-Week High Spot gold surged to a fresh 3-week high of $1,258.66 an ounce on Monday, fueled by a weaker dollar and decreasing expectations of a US rate hike as the Fed remains dovish. Gold for June delivery settled roughly 1.0% higher and trades around 1,256...

Analytical Review of the Stocks of Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson, #JNJ [NYSE] Healthcare, production of drugs, USA Financial performance of the company: Index – DJIA, S&P 500; Beta – 0.63...

XAG/USD: The USD is Declining Against Safe-Haven Currencies Amid the decline in the USD against gold and the Yen last week was caused by uncertainty in the economic and financial situation in the world, the price of silver went up as well...

XAG/USD: Will the Rise Continue? Last week, the price of silver in the pair XAG/USD exceeded resistance level of 15.15 (ЕМА200 and ЕМА50 on the daily chart). Today, the price has consolidated above resistance level of 15.35 (ЕМА50 на недельном графике...

Brent: Fundamental Facts Caused the Rise in Oil Prices Technical analysis Fundamental factors of last week caused the rise in oil prices last week. Alternative scenario to proved to be correct. The price broke out resistance level of 41.10 and went further up 42.30 and 44...

Brent: The Trice of Oil Went Up Last Week Fundamental news of last week triggered correction in oil prices. Last Friday the prices continue to rise after the release of the data from Baker Hughes, which showed that the number of operating drilling rigs in the USA has dropped by 8 units to 354...

Analytical Review of the Currency Pair USD/CAD Technical data of the currency pair: Previous closing: 1.2979; Daily range: 1.2971-1.3014; Opening: 1.2986; 52- week range: 1.1916-1.4692; Annual revenue: +3.49%; Change in % for the previous day: -1.26...

Weekly Review Major news of last week was the minutes of the US Fed meeting in March...

USD/CAD to End 2016 at 1.30 - Lloyds Analysts from Lloyds Bank, expect the USD/CAD to rise toward 1.35, but then as crude oil recovers is forecast to end the year at 1.30. Key Quotes: “Similar to other commodity currencies, USD/CAD has been rangebound recently – trading between 1.28 and 1.33...

BoC Reliant on Weakness in CAD - ING Viraj Patel, FX Strategist at ING explained, in respect of the Bank of Canada (BoC) coming up this week, with the policy rate likely to remain on hold, front-loaded CAD weakness is even more crucial for a central bank deeply reliant on export-led growth...

A Rise in Protection Against Yen Strength - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank explained that the JPY is soft following a short-lived break to a fresh cycle high driven by stronger than expected machine orders data...

GBP/JPY Trade Idea Major resistance – 154.80 (3 W EMA) Minor support -153.25 The pair has jumped till 154.22 on Friday and declined from that level. It is currently trading around 153.34. Short term trend is slightly weak as long as resistance 154.80 holds. Any break above 154...

US Stock Futures Rise, Investors Eye Alcoa Earnings US stock futures are trading on a positive note today as risk appetite strengthened in Europe, while investors await Alcoa results. At the time of writing, Dow futures were trading 64 points or 0.37% higher...

WTI Off Highs, Returns to $40.00 The barrel of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) keeps its daily gains today, albeit it has retraced the earlier spike to levels above the $40.00 mark. WTI looks to regain the $40.00 handle Crude oil prices have bounced off last week’s lows in the $35...

GBP/USD Clings to Daily Gains The pound has been recovering ground against a softer greenback on Monday, with GBP/USD reaching 6-day highs at the 1.4250 area. The British currency is among the best performers of the day, posting decent gains versus the yen and the euro as well...

EUR Shorts Reduced, USD Longs Consolidating - Rabobank Jane Foley, Senior FX Strategist at Rabobank, lists down the IMM Net Speculators’ Positioning as at 05 April 2016. Key Quotes • “Despite the dovish position of the ECB, speculators have reduced their net EUR shorts for three consecutive weeks...

BoC: Not Expected to Change Policy - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests that the Bank of Canada (BoC) meets this week, and is not expected to change policy...