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Dollar Attempting A Comeback From Early Weakness The dollar dropped against its major European competitors Monday morning, but has begun to pare those losses this afternoon. Markets in Europe are closed today for the Easter holiday and U.S. economic data was largely positive this morning...

FXWIREPRO: GBP/USD Strongly Bearish Despite Upside Attempts GBP/USD rebounded strongly towards 1.4280 levels earlier in mid European session. However, the pair turned back after failing to break resistance level 1.4286, as the pound ran out of strength against US dollar...

FXWIREPRO: USD/JPY Pauses Decline, Scope for Further Upside USD/JPY has paused its declined as positive pending home sales data released earlier in the US session limited the pairs downside. Further downside is expected to be limited as the pair finds strong support at 113...

FXWIREPRO: Gold Retreats from Daily High, Outlook Bearish Gold has retreated after finding resistance at 1223 levels to trade around 1218 levels, erasing some earlier gains made in the US session...

Yen Down on Two Main Counts - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank ranked the Yen as an under performer. Key Quotes: "The JPY is the main under-performer on the day on better risk appetite (US equity futures) and PM Abe’s suggestion that his “three arrows” policy has corrected the strong JPY...

EUR/USD Trims Gains, Hovering Around 1.1200 EUR/USD moved off session highs during the last hours, as the US dollar recovered part of the lost ground across the board. Greenback dropped sharply earlier after US personal income and spending report...

US Oil Exports in Decline - BBH Analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman recall that the US lifted its ban on oil exports in December, but explained it appears, however, that US oil exports have fallen rather than risen here at the start of 2016...

GBP/USD Has Limited Upside Scope GBP/USD has no clear catalyst driving the price higher, except that there has been technical space to do so following last week's sharp sell off from the 1...

USD/JPY Hunting Down Feb Highs on 115.0 Handle USD/JPY bulls have fought back in a strong rally, away from the March 17 multi-year low. We are now in positive territory, trading in the upper end of its range from mid-February...

Efficiency Stands in Way of Natural Gas Price Recovery This year natural gas price has dropped well below $2/mmbtu, observed during 2012 trough and still sliding further. Today price is down another -2.2%, trading at $1.77/mmbtu. Price has dropped to lowest levels since 1999...

Technical Analysis of CAD/CHF for March 28, 2016 CAD/CHF broke below the 200 Moving average and it is currently trading lower suggesting that the trend is down. Applying two Fibonacci channels, it is obvious that price broke below the 161...

Technical Analysis of GBP/CAD for March 28, 2016 After forming a double bottom near the 1.8500 support level, GBP/CAD started rising and formed a strong resistance near 1.8660. The resistance did not hold for a long time and was broken together with the 261...

Analysis of EUR/NZD for March 28, 2016 Recently, EUR/NZD has been moving sideways around the 1.6660 mark. On the daily chart, the price is still trading in the defined trading range between the 1.6475 level (support) and the 1.6865 level (resistance...

Worrisome Signs Series: World Trade Suffers Further Setback in 2016 According to data from CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, global trade suffered further setback in January, to start the year, posing doubts, whether global economy can actually recover, without key component, tr...

EUR/CHF Comes Down to Test 1.0900 EUR/CHF is trading within a narrow range, in line with the broader fashion in the global markets on Easter Monday. EUR/CHF consolidative around 1.0900 In the meantime, the cross is struggling to keep daily gains near 1...

AUD/NZD Better Bid Above 20-DMA Ahead of US Data The Australian dollar manages to keep an upper edge over its OZ counterpart in a holiday-quiet European trading session, keeping AUD/NZD on the bids near 1.1250 levels. AUD/NZD trades above daily pivot at 1.1236 Currently, the AUD/NZD pair trades 0...

USD/CAD Trims Losses as Oil Drops Oil benchmarks surrendered gains, helping the USD/CAD recover from the session low of 1.3229 to trade around 1.3250 levels. Eyes US data The immediate focus now is on the US data, which is expected to show personal spending and income growth slowed in February...

Brent Oil Rejected at 5-DMA, Surrenders Gains Brent oil is now trading largely unchanged on the day after prices failed to sustain above 5-DMA level of $40.88...

Oil in Global Economy Series: Why Rigs Deactivation Doesn't Matter Much? According to latest numbers from Baker Hughes, number of active oil rigs operating in United States has dropped to lowest levels since 2008/09 financial crisis...