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AUD/USD Gains Capped Around 0.77 – Westpac According to strategists at Westpac, AUD’s upside appears somewhat limited around the 0.7700 handle in the near term. Key Quotes "AUD/USD found fresh buyers and pricing for a May rate cut faded to below 30% after the strong Mar NAB business survey”...

WTI Below $42.00, Losses Momentum Ahead of EIA The barrel of West Texas Intermediate has retreated from recent highs above the $42.00 mark, returning to the $41.70 area...

BoC Decision Preview: What to Expect of USD/CAD? The Bank of Canada (BoC) will announce its monetary policy decision at 14:00GMT and it is widely expected to keep rates on hold at 0.50% this month...

USD/CAD Cautiously Bearish – Scotiabank In view of Eric Theoret, FX Strategist at Scotiabank, USD/CAD's outlook remains tilted to the bearish side. Key Quotes “Trend and momentum indicators are decisively bearish”...

FXWIREPRO: BTC/USD Faces Strong Resistance at $428, Good to Buy at Dips. Major Resistance - $428 BTC/USD has slightly retreated after making a high of $426.67. It is currently trading around $424. Short term trend is slightly bullish as long as support $400 holds...

Gold Recovers to Hourly 100-MA After US Data Moderate weakness in the US dollar following a dismal US retail sales release saw gold prices recovery to hourly 100-MA level of $1247.50. Trades above 50% Fibo Prices rose to $1248.89 before falling back to trade just above $1245.37 (50% of 1283-1207...

API Reports Surplus, While WTI Awaits EIA Report - Calls Updated WTI is trading at key resistance area at $41.5/barrel...

US Retail Sales Fail to Pick Up Momentum in March - ING Rob Carnell, Chief International Economist at ING, notes that the US retail sales fall 0.3% mom in March, while the "core" rises only 0.1% mom...

FXWIREPRO: Cyclical Effects Between Uk Inflation-Brexit- BoE- GBP The inflation continues its global trend higher with UK and Sweden following the preliminary German and EU reads higher. U.K. Consumer prices went up 0.5% YoY in March of 2016 which is on track of BoE's target of 2%, following a 0...

GBP/USD Trade Idea Major Support – 1.4185 (200 day MA) Cable has recovered yesterday after making a low of 1.41965 (near 200 HMA) .It is currently trading around 1.42391. Intraday trend is slightly bullish as long as support 1.4185 holds. Any break below 1.4185 will drag the pair down till 1...

US Dollar Near 94.50, Off Highs Post-US Data The greenback, tracked by the US Dollar Index, has lost some momentum following the release of US data, leaving behind session highs near 94.70...

GBP/USD –Confluence of Resistance Intact Despite Weak US Data GBP/USD failed to take out confluence of technical resistance around 1.4250 (hourly 50-MA+ 50-DMA + 1.4252-38.2% of 1.4669-1.3835) despite dismal US retail sales release. Hovers around 1.4240 Prices clocked a post data high of 1...

Technical Analysis of Silver for April 13, 2016 Technical outlook and chart setups: Silver is pulling back after hitting fresh highs at $16.20 levels yesterday. The metal is seen to be trading at $16.00 levels at this moment, and looking to drop lower towards at least $15...

USD/JPY Back to 109.00 on Poor US Data The upside in the greenback lost some momentum following US data, with USD/JPY returning to the 109.00 neighbourhood. USD/JPY down from 109.40 The pair has faded the spike to fresh 4-day highs near 109...

EUR/USD Moves Off Lows after US Retail Sales EUR/USD moved off daily lows and trimmed intraday losses following the release of disappointing US retail sales and producer prices data. US retail sales fell 0.3% to a seasonally adjusted $446.89 billion in March, missing expectations of a 0...

US Retail Sales Unexpectedly Dropped in March Official data released in the US today showed retail sales unexpectedly dropped in March. Retails sales fell 0.3% m/m in March, compared to an expected rise of 0.1% following an upwardly revised February figure of 0.0%. Retail sales ex autos rose 0...

EUR/NZD Analysis for April 13, 2016 Recently, EUR/NZD has been moving downwards. As I had expected, the price tested the level of 1.6319 in a high volume. EUR/NZD has broken the upward channel. According to the H4 time frame, watch only for selling opportunities on rallies...

Oil in Global Economy Series: Future of Oil can be Seen in Present of Coal If I would have told you back in 2008, a company whose share price was trading at $1260, would go to zero in next eight years, you would have called me crazy, if I would have told you again in 2011 the same thing, when sha...