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Eurozone Recovery Ongoing, Poitical Risks Rising - Moody's Moody's rating agency is crossing the wires, noting that the Eurozone recovery is ongoing, while political risks rising, Reuters reports...
Sean Callow, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that with a week to assess the fallout from the ECB’s raft of policy easing measures, they remain more impressed than the FX market seems to be. “EUR/USD was just below 1.10 as the various new policies were revealed, slipping to about 1...
AUD/USD Bulls Hunting Down R1 for 0.77 Handle AUD/USD is currently making an addition run towards the 0.77 handle now in Asia as the greenback takes another beating. AUD/USD's price takes the RSI (14) 1hr to 67 and heads to R1 0.7717. The Yuan fix was at 6.4628 vs 6...
Jane Foley, Research Analyst at Rabobank, suggests that there was a common theme in the words of Fed Chair Yellen and in the policy statements offered by the SNB and Norges Bank. “All three cited weaker global growth as a reason for caution...
Sean Callow, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that the dovish Fed tone came just in time for the AUD/USD rally, which had looked set to peter out after a failed attempt at 0.76 earlier in the week. “The record-breaking 18...
Khoon Goh, Senior FX Strategist at ANZ, suggests that the SGD strength this year has mainly been on the back of dollar weakness, rather than based on domestic merits. • “The S$NEER is trading back above the midpoint of the band...
EURUSD Daily Forecast: March 18 2016 EURUSD Forecast The EURUSD continued its bullish momentum yesterday topped at 1.1342. The bias remains bullish in nearest term. As you can see on my H1 chart below price is now struggling around the trend line resistance suggest a critical technical point...
GBPUSD Daily Forecast: March 18 2016 GBPUSD Forecast The GBPUSD had a strong bullish momentum yesterday topped at 1.4503. The bias remains bullish in nearest term testing 1.4580 area. Immediate support is seen around 1.4400...
USDCHF Daily Forecast: March 18 2016 USDCHF Forecast The USDCHF continued its bearish momentum yesterday bottomed at 0.9650. The bias remains bearish in nearest term testing 0.9600 – 0.9570 region. Immediate resistance is seen around 0.9730...
Pivot Points-Daily Last Updated: Mar 18, 3:30 am +03:00 Symbol S3 S2...
Trading Key Risk, Commodities, China, Rates Themes in the FX Markets Talking Points Major themes around the world are easy to follow, but not as easy to trade Currencies measure many different facets of economic and financial change We look at candidates for reflecting views on risk trends, oil...
Oil continues to recover despite lingering supply concerns and this is pushing the USD/CAD exchange rate lower. The price of oil continues to rise despite continued evidence of over-supply, with WTI reaching above $40/barrel on Thursday March 17...
Earlier this week, we wrote a piece on the AUD/USD highlighting the potential for a pullback after China's industrial production growth eased more than expected (click HERE for details...
After a dovish outlook from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, JP Morgan's chief US economist Michael Feroli cut his forecast for the number of interest rate hikes by the FOMC in 2016 to 2...
Analysts at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi explained that renewed USD strength should still materialise but from weaker level. "Our current dollar forecasts (Foreign Exchange Outlook 1st March) were based on two rate increases this year and two still seems most likely – in June and December...
Analysts at TD Securities are calling a further thrust lower to 108.50 in USD/JPY. Brokers TD Securities have put out a call for the USD/JPY rate to break lower extending to a target at 108.50. “We think short positions in USDJPY offer a compelling risk/reward profile...
Our economics team’s view has been that tightening in financial conditions and market disruptions will ultimately prevent the Fed from tightening rates further this year. The message from this week’s FOMC is that the Committee agrees with this view, at least for now...
Despite rising core inflation and falling unemployment, the Fed stays on hold, and lowers their outlook for rate hikes in 2016, notes UBS. "Lower for longer, but same pace once they really get going As expected, the Fed left rates on hold (Kansas City Fed President George dissented...
According to analysts from TDS, the decline in USD/ZAR, after the FED and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) decision, could be an opportunity to re-establish long positions. “The SARB hiked the repo rate by 25bp to 7.00% in a split decision that was all but easy to call...
