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USD/JPY Rises for 8th Straight Day Yen remains under pressure on seasonality factors, pushing the USD/JPY pair higher for 8th straight day. Supported by 23.6% Fibo A minor bout of weakness earlier today ran into support at 113.27 (23.6% of 121.69-110...

EUR/USD Selling Intensifies to 1.1170, Yellen Eyed The offered tone around the shared currency is now picking up pace, dragging EUR/USD to daily lows in the 1.1170 area...

GBP/USD Trims Losses, Retakes 1.42 Handle An early sell-off took GBP/USD pair to 1.4194 before the recovery was set in motion. The bird now trades around 1.4225 levels...

Gold Slips in Asia, Bears Back in Control? Gold prices failed to sustain the overnight recovery from one-month lows and slipped back into the red zone in the Asian session this Tuesday. Gold drops below $ 1220 mark Currently, gold drops -0.28% to 1219...

AUD/USD Pulled Lower by Oil, Trades Around 5-DMA AUD/USD, which traded at three-day high earlier today, fell into losses, tracking weakness in oil prices. Rejected at 0.7570 Prices turned lower from 0.7570 levels as oil benchmarks fell on oversupply concerns...

US: Key Economic Releases Review - Nomura Research Team at Nomura, reviews the key economic data releases overnight from the US. Key Quotes “The advanced goods trade deficit widened somewhat more than anticipated to $62.9bn in February (Consensus: $62.2bn) from a revised $62.4bn in January...

Softer Data to Restrain the USD this Week – BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, notes that the US data started the week on a soft note with the February personal and income and spending report coming in weaker than expected overall as most of the strong January rise in spending was revised away an...

Technical Analysis of AUD/USD for March 29, 2016 AUD/USD is expected to hit the target at 0.7570. The pair continues trading on the upside and is currently around the 20-period moving average...

Technical Analysis of USD/CHF for March 29, 2016 USD/CHF is under pressure. The pair broke below its rising trend line, which should confirm a bearish reversal. The nearest resistance at 0.9785 maintains the strong selling pressure on the prices...

USDX Technical Analysis for March 29, 2016 As expected, the Dollar index has started a pullback. Traders should be neutral for a short period of time as we should wait for the Fed Chairman Janet Yellen's speech that will certainly provide some volatility for the forex markets...

Global Macro Overview for 29/03/2016 Global overview for 29/03/2016: Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen is due to speak today on the Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy at the Economic Club of New York luncheon and her comments are likely to be followed very closely by investors...

Technical Analysis of NZD/USD for March 29, 2016 NZD/USD is expected to continue its further upside movement. The pair has reversed up, and is now heading upward, backed by its rising 20-period and 50-period moving averages. A strong support base around 0...

Yen on Worst Losing Run Since 2012 Against Dollar Yen is on its worst losing stretch against Dollar, since 2012. Over past eight trading session, it has depreciated against Dollar by about 2%. Last time Yen lost that much is when, in 2012 Yen declined about 2...

FXWIREPRO: GBP/JPY Option Premiums Move in Sync With Ivs - Risk Averse can Go With Strips Combination for Hedging Let's have a glance on the implied volatilities of GBPJPY ATM puts of 1W expiries that are the highest in G7 currency segment in OTC markets, 13...

FXWIREPRO: EUR/JPY Faces Major Resistance at 127.25, Bullishness Only on Breaks Above EUR/JPY edges higher on the day, but remains capped below strong trendline resistance at 127.25. Breaks above will see further upside, gains till 127.78 (daily cloud base) then likely...

NZD/CAD Faces Strong Resistance Around 0.8920, Break Above Targets 0.9000 Major resistance – 0.8920 The pair has recovered after making a low of 0.88537. it is currently trading around 0.89025. NZD/CAD major resistance is around 0...

FXWIREPRO: EUR/AUD Bounces Off Trendline Support, Good to Buy Dips EUR/AUD has bounced off trendline support around 1.4785 and is currently trading at 1.4821 levels. Stochs have rolled over from oversold region and RSI is biased north. The pair finds resistance at 1...

US Consumers Unlikely to be Supportive of US Economy in Q1 2016 US recorded modest growth of 0.2% m/m in personal income in February, as compared with consensus expectation of 0.1% growth. Real disposable income, excluding taxes and inflation, grew strongly by 0.3% m/m. Personal spending grew 0...

Australian Bonds Flat Despite Weak U.S. Data The Australian 10-year bond yield is unchanged on Tuesday despite weaker U.S. economic data which dampened expectations of further US rate rises. Moreover, U.S. Commerce Department in its report revealed that personal spending rose tad +0...

FXWIREPRO: EUR/GBP Holds Minor Support at 0.7857, Weakness Only on Breaks Below EUR/GBP holds above hourly 10 DMA support at 0.7857, weakness seen only on breaks below. The pair is currently trading around 0.7862, technicals on hourly charts indicate further gains...