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...
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...
The common currency remains buoyant above the 1.1400 handle on Thursday, withEUR/USD attempting to consolidate around 1.1430. EUR/USD capped at 1...
US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Prices may be readying to turn lower after producing a bearish Evening Star candlestick pattern. Negative RSI divergence reinforces the case for a downside scenario. A daily close below the intersection of the 14...
USD/CAD is trading at 1.2430 with a high of 1.2588 and a low of 1.2407. USD/CAD has been unstable while the price of oil has been making a come back and a bottom is appearing to form...
The Canadian dollar has taken back yesterday’s losses versus the greenback, supported by a strong oil recovery and better than expected Canadian trade data. USD/CAD has lost more than 150 pips throughout the day, retreating from near 1.2600 to a low of 1...
The Danish central bank lowered its deposit rate to -0.75% from -0.50% today, its fourth rate cut in the past three weeks. The bank kept the lending rate, the discount rate and the current account rate unchanged at 0.05%, 0.0% and 0.0%, respectively...
Crude prices in the US trade at USD 50.60/barrel, after having bounced-off from the 10-DMA located at 47.57 levels earlier today. Concerns of excess supply linger The Energy information Agency data released yesterday showed the crude oil inventories in the US rose by 6...
AUD/USD failed to sustain gains above 0.7800 and pulled back at the beginning of the American session, trimming intraday gains. The Australian dollar reached a daily high of 0.7823 versus the greenback, but lacked follow-through and retreated toward the 0.7780 area in recent dealings...
The stock markets in the US are likely to open higher, after a lackluster performance in the previous session that was widely attributed to a sharp fall in oil price. At the time of writing, the DJIA futures traded 0.61% higher at 17,673.50 levels, while the S&P futures traded 0...
On Thursday the dollar remained lower against the other major currencies, as a disappointing U.S. trade balance report weighed...
Jane Foley, Senior Currency Strategist at Rabobank, places the pair in the area of 0.7000 on a 12-month horizon. Key Quotes “The value of AUD/USD may have fallen sharply since July 2014 but Australia’s effective exchange rate has shown less movement”...
Sabine Schels, Commodity Strategist at BofA-Merrill Lynch, explains that unless oil production guidance for 2015 goes negative or Saudi Arabia changes its policies, WTI and Brent may fall to $32/barrel and $31/barrel respectively by the end of Q1 2015...
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) chief economist Peter Praet said today that the European Central Bank’s (ECB) simply applied rules as it decided to end its exemption from credit requirements for Greek bonds...
On Thursday the dollar dropped against the other major currencies, as market sentiment recovered from news the European Central Bank will no longer accept Greek government bonds from banks seeking funding and investors eyed U.S. data due later in the day...
The Brown Brothers Harriman Team shares that Greek bonds yields have climbed sharply and stocks have fallen by around 5.5% post ECB’s decision to curtail liquidity to Greek banks. Key Quotes “Following the election results, Syriza came out swinging...
The European Commission (EC), in its winter forecasts, upgraded its Eurozone growth forecasts for 2015, while predicting growth for every country in the EU in 2015 for the first time since 2015. The EC raised its 2015 GDP forecast to 1.3% this year from the 1.1% seen in November and to 1...
The Crude prices in the US steadied post 9% losses seen in the previous session as supply concerns resurfaced after the data showed inventories in the US rose to record highs...
Market Brief EUR complex was hit hard by the news that the ECB would take a further hard stance on Greece. ECBs Governing Council lifted the current waiver of a minimum credit rating requirements for debt instruments issued by Greece...
