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US Retail Sales: Constructive Underlying Spending Ton – TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that the weaker auto sales should be a key source of drag on US headline retail sales activity, pushing the pace of spending down for the third consecutive month...

EUR/JPY has Likely Bottomed, Now on Track to Rebound - BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, suggests that the main data release on Wednesday is Eurozone February industrial output where our economists expect a decline of 0.6% m/m...

Technical Analysis of USD/JPY for April 13, 2016 In Asia, Japan will release the PPI y/y, M2 Money Stock y/y and the US will release some economic data such as the Beige Book, 10-y Bond Auction, Crude Oil Inventories, Business Inventories m/m, Core PPI m/m, Retail Sales m/m, PPI m/m, Core Retail...

Technical Analysis of EUR/USD for April 13, 2016 When the European market opens, some economic news will be released such as Industrial Production m/m and the French Final CPI m/m...

CAD: Setting Up for Bank of Canada - TDS Analysts at TD shares the universal consensus expectation for the Bank of Canada to hold its overnight rate unchanged at 0.50...

Daily Analysis of USDX for April 13, 2016 The Index is still trying to to consolidtate below the support zone of 93.95, but we can see that a strong demand territory is located around that price level...

Daily Analysis of GBP/USD for April 13, 2016 The pair has been trading into a bullish tone above the 200 SMA at H1 chart, after a rebound that was performed during the American session of yesterday. Currently, we can expect another breakout above the 1.4278 level, to re-test the 1...

FXWIREPRO: NZD/JPY Edges Lower from Session Highs at 75.70, Weakness Only Below 75.20 Our previous call (http://www.econotimes.com/FxWirePro-NZD-JPY-breaks-strong-trendline-resistance-at-7410-targets-75-192979) has hit all targets. NZD/JPY hit fresh weekly high of 75...

FXWIREPRO: Silver Hits Fresh 5-Month High at $16.19 But Fails to Sustain- Intraday Bias Remains Slightly Bearish XAG/USD is currently trading around $15.0160 marks. It made intraday high at $16.15 and low at $16.01 levels...

Mid-Week Data and Reversion to STEER™ Could Boost USD – BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, suggests that the USD’s recovery vs the EUR and JPY continued overnight and is taking support from a recovery of US front-end yields...

Little Chance of EUR/USD Falling Significantly - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the Euro remains very range bound and it still by and large tracks the Bund/Treasury spread, albeit trading a little higher than that spread would imply at the moment...

NZD/USD Meets Fresh Supply, Attacks 0.6900 The NZD/USD pair brought an end to its 3-day rally and fell in the red zone in early Europe as bears took over charge amid the retreat in the oil prices. NZD/USD off 9-day highs Currently, the NZD/USD pair trades 0.26% lower at fresh session lows of 0...

FXWIREPRO: GBP/AUD to Tumble Further, Many Reasons to Hedge Downside Risks - Backspread Best Serves Hedging Objectives Inflation continues its global trend higher with UK and Sweden following the preliminary German and EU reads higher...

Without Improvement in Domestic Economy Nikkei to Act As One Big Exporter Nikkei drops, when Yen rises and rises when Yen drops, due to the popular notion in the market that weaker Yen makes Japanese exports more competitive in world market, hence that should be positive for Nikkei stocks...

Brent Oil Turns Red, Drops Below $44 Brent oil printed a session low of $43.85 levels even though China data showed crude imports rose to record high in March. Rejected at $44.56 Prices turned lower from a high of $44...

USD/JPY Seen at 112.00 in 3-Month – Danske Bank Senior Analyst at Danske Bank Morten Helt sees the BoJ incurring in further easing in the near term and thus pushing spot to the 112.00 handle in 1-3 months...

GBP/USD Sell the Rallies – Westpac Strategists at Westpac have recommended selling the pair on occasional bullish attempts. Key Quotes “GBP/USD remains high on our sell list. We sell GBP/USD at 1.4450, stop 1.4610”...

EUR/USD Losing Momentum? – Commerzbank In view of Karen Jones, Head of FICC Technical Analysis at Commerzbank, the pair’s upside momentum could be running out of steam. Key Quotes “EUR/USD charted a minor new high of 1.1465 which was not confirmed by the daily RSI...

EUR/USD Weaker, Drops to 1.1350 The common currency is now losing the grip vs. the greenback, sending EUR/USD to the lower end of the range in the mid-1.1300s...

USD/JPY: 109 Tested as Nikkei Hits Fresh Session Highs The offered tone around the JPY keeps growing bigger as we progress towards the European open, mainly driven by improving risk sentiment as the Japanese stocks extend the rally. USD/JPY: Will buyers take control above 109...