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Yellen’s Comments Boost USD Market Brief In the wake of another batch of disappointing economic data from the US, Janet Yellen said on Friday that an interest rate hike should be appropriate in the coming months but did not give further details about the timing...

Fed Hike Hype Growing, USD Gains Forex News and Events Yellens comments support hike but watch data This will be a big week for enforcing expectations for a Fed summer rate hike, even providing granularity of either June or July...

Forex Technical Analysis: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, USD/RUB, XAU/USD (Gold) Analysis for May 30th, 2016 EURUSD, “Euro vs US Dollar” Eurodollar has reached the target of the first Fibonacci retracement expansion; the structure looks like the first wave of another downtrend...

NZD/USD Holding Recovery Gains to 0.6700 but Remains Vulnerable Extending its recovery from a two-month low level of 0.6675 touched earlier during Asian session, the NZD/USD pair continues to hold its neck above 0.6700 handle...

EUR/USD Remains Under Pressure – Scotiabank Shaun Osborne, Chief FX Strategist at Scotiabank, sees the pair still vulnerable in light of the upcoming ECB meeting and against the backdrop of a potential rate hike by the Fed...

USD/CAD Holding Gains to 1.3065 on After Canadian Data The USD/CAD pair was unmoved above the mid-point of 1.3000-1.3100 handle despite of weaker-than-expected economic data from Canada...

US Dollar Keeps Gains Near 95.70 The greenback, tracked by the US Dollar Index, has lost its earlier upside momentum and has returned to the 95.70 area. US Dollar capped around 96.00 After a brief test of fresh multi-week tops in the vicinity of the 96...

EUR/USD Watch for Counter Trend Confluence The EUR/USD is patiently waiting for major economic data coming in this week. We have some real high impact info this week and we could see riskoff sentiment possibly coming back. We need to watch out for upcoming releases: 1...

EUR/USD: Dollar Eases Modestly in Thin Trading EUR/USD Current Price: 1.1138 The American dollar gave back the ground gained at the beginning of the day, and the EUR/USD pair recovered from a fresh 2-month low of 1.1097, helped by positive data coming from Europe...

EUR Perspective Remains Poor – BBH Analysts at BBH have assessed the recent performance of the single currency. Key Quotes “Since the break of $1.12, we have been looking for $1.1070...

AUD/USD Bearish Below 0.7145/50 – UOB According to the research team at UOB Group, further pullbacks lie ahead for the Aussie dollar on a close below the 0.7145/50 band. Key Quotes “The 'rebound target' indicated at 0.7260 last Friday was not met as AUD dropped quickly after hitting a high of 0...

Oil Steady Around $49.30, Focus on This Week’s OPEC Meeting WTI crude oil futures managed to recover from session low of $49.05 to currently trade near $49.30 amid dull trading session on the first trading day of a fresh trading week that is full of market moving events...

FxWirePro: CHF/JPY Faces Strong Resistance at 112.35, Good to Sell on Rallies Major Resistance- 112.35 (trend line joining 117.41 and 115.01) The pair has made a high of 112.12 and slightly declined from that level. It is currently trading around 111.91...

FxWirePro: Deploy GBP/USD Option Strips Bidding 1M Rr - a Run Through of Various Scenarios of Strikes For demonstration we consider the GBPUSD ATM instruments while formulating option strips strategy...

GBP/JPY Trade Idea Major resistance- 162.80 (100 EMA) Major support -159.93 (10 day EMA) GBP/JPY has broken major resistance 162.80 and slightly retreated from that level. It is currently trading around 162.27. The pair is facing major resistance around 162...

Gold Under Biggest and Longest Daily Decline in More Than Three Decades Gold has been declining and declining hard. The yellow metal, which had one of its best starts to a year in 2016, has declined for 9 consecutive days, including today. In past nine sessions, it has declined 5...

The Forex Week Ahead: May 29th – 2nd June Mon: EUR – German CPI, JPY – Unemployment Rate Tue: EUR – German Unemployment rate, EuroZone CPI, USD – PCE, Consumer Confidence, CAD – GDP Wed: CNY – Manufacturing & Non-Manufacturing PMIs, AUD – GDP, CHF – GDP, EUR – EuroZone Manufacturing PMI, GBP...

EUR/USD: Levels, Ranges, Targets Not only is a supposed June hike possible but the June raise timing if it materializes coincides to July 1 changes at the ECB. Current Fed/Eonia spreads run 0.72 bps while a possible Fed hike would raise spreads to 0.85 bps...

GBP/USD Rallies to Session Peak Level of 1.4637 Extending its recovery from session low of 1.4588, the GBP/USD pair gained further traction and has now moved to a fresh session high level of 1.4637...

EUR/USD Keeps Highs on German CPI The upside momentum in the shared currency remains well and sound today, with EUR/USD now gyrating around 1.1140...