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Daily Analysis of GBP/USD for March 21, 2016 The pair is currently working out a strong intraday bullish bias on the H1 chart, as it has been trading above the support level of 1.4423, which remains stable as a strong demand zone in a short-term basis...

Asian Stocks Slip as Oil Skids; China up Most Asian stock markets slipped on Monday after three consecutive weeks of gains as a retreat in oil prices made investors cautious, but losses were tempered by hopes that China may soon cut interest rates again as pressure on the yuan eases...

Crude Oil Falls for Second Day as U.S. Rig Count Rises Crude oil slid for a second session on Monday, falling further from last week's 2016 highs on concerns over a supply glut after the U.S rig count rose for the first time since December. U.S...

PBOC Warns About Rising Corporate Debt People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Zhou Xiaochuan fired a warning shot regarding the elephant in the room – corporate debt. "Lending as a share of GDP, especially corporate lending as a share of GDP, is too high," PBOC leader said...

German Yield Curve After the ECB – Goldman Sachs Huw Pill, Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs, suggests that the flattening of the German yield curve following the ECB’s announcement of additional asset purchases was modest...

AUD/USD Off Lows, but Stays Below 0.76 AUD/USD recovered from session lows, but remains on a back foot below 0.76 handle after China’s central bank fired a warning shot about corporate debt levels. USD remains under pressure Losses were capped at 0...

NZ Dollar Drops Against Majors The New Zealand dollar weakened against the other major currencies in the Asian session on Monday. The NZ dollar fell to 5-day lows of 1.6702 against the euro and 75.13 against the yen, from last week's closing quotes of 1.6567 and 75.71, respectively. Against the U...

Australian Dollar Falls Most Majors The Australian dollar weakened against most major currencies in the Asian session on Monday. The Australian dollar fell to a 6-day low of 84.22 against the yen, from Friday's closing value of 84.74. Against the euro and the U.S...

Russia: CBR Maintains its Cautious Stance – TDS Paul Fage, Senior Emerging Markets Strategist at TDS, notes that at its recent board meeting the CBR kept its Key Rate on hold at 11.0%. Key Quotes “This was in line with our and the consensus expectation...

NZD: Settled into a Trading Range - BNZ Jason Wong, Currency Strategist at BNZ, notes that after a sharp fall earlier in the year, the NZD has settled into a trading range...

New Zealand Net Migration Continues To Rise In February New Zealand's net migration increased further in February, driven by more arrivals from Australia, figures from Statistics New Zealand showed Monday. In the year to February 29, the country recorded a net migration of 67,400...

Yen Rises Against Majors The Japanese yen strengthened against the other major currencies in the Asian session on Monday. The yen rose to 125.43 against the euro and 160.65 against the pound, from last week's closing quotes of 125.65 and 161.47, respectively. Against the U.S...

Indian Rupee Erases Previous Gain Against US Dollar, Intraday Bias Remains Bullish USD/INR is currently trading at 66.55 marks. It made intraday high at 66.55 and low at 66.46 levels. Intraday bias remains bullish for the moment. A daily close below 66...

FXWIREPRO: EUR/JPY Capped Below 10-Dma at 125.75, Momentum Bearish EUR/JPY is extending decline, sees strong trendline resistance at 126.20. Some rumors of a possible BOJ's intervention, lead to a slide in the Japanese currency by the end of the week...

FXWIREPRO: Nikkei225 Faces Major Resistance Around 17000, Good to Buy at Dips Major resistance - 17000 The index has slightly recovered after making a low of 16569. It is currently trading around 16664.Short term trend is bullish as long as support 16500 holds...

Long USD Positions Reduced Sharply - ANZ Irene Cheung, Senior FX Strategist at ANZ, lists down the CFTC speculative positioning for the week ending 15 March 2016. Key Quotes • “Leveraged funds reduced their net long USD positions sharply by USD6.2bn to USD7.5bn for the week ended 15 March...

EUR/USD: Techs Hint Potential Bullish Continuation - FXStreet EUR/USD has managed to find buying interest off 1.1250 session lows, with the price setting highs of 1.1280/85, as risk sentiment is moderately worse, an environment that has underpinned the Euro as part of its funding currency profile...

AUD/NZD Making Higher Highs in the Recovery AUD/NZD has hunted down the 1hr 100 sma at 1.1226, but has since settled back on the 200 sma on the same time frame at 1.1199. AUD/NZD is in a recovery drift and hence that price action, working its way up in a grind from recent lows at 1...

NZD/USD: Three-Month Outlook - Westpac Imre Speizer, analyst at Westpac explained that the Federal Reserve downgraded its interest rate projections last week, hurting the US dollar and thus boosting NZD/USD and offered a three-month outlook. Key Quotes: "We expect NZD/USD to fall towards 0...

USD/JPY: Headed to 106.63 on Break of 111.00? USD/JPY has been a downside play in Tokyo below the half way point of the 111.0 handle and diverging away from the 20 1hr sma at 111.43 at the start of this week's session in Asia...