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RBA Acknowledges Stronger AUD but Not Overly Concerned Yet - MUFG Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, notes that the Australian dollar has weakened modestly in the Asian trading session undermined early this week by renewed weakness in commodity prices...

US: ISM Nonmanufacturing Index to Rise Only Marginally - TDS Millan Mulraine, Deputy Head US Macro Strategy at TDS, suggests that the US economic growth momentum has slowed, and while the headwinds to the manufacturing sector appear to have abated the fallout in the service sector should continue...

EUR/JPY – Sell Off Continues, Eyes 125.00 Handle JPY bulls are in no mood to relax amid fresh oil-driven risk-off in the equities and are now eyeing psychological level of 125.00 in the EUR/JPY cross...

AUD/USD Door Open for Further Downside – Commerzbank Karen Jones, Head of FICC Technical Analysis at Commerzbank, noted the relevance of the key support at 0.7477. Key Quotes “AUD/USD held sideways and has started to erode the accelerated uptrend at...

AUD/JPY Attacks 83 Handle, at Fresh Monthly Lows The AUD/JPY cross extends its bearish run into a fourth day this Tuesday, with the bears relentless on the back of persistent risk-off market profile. AUD/JPY tests 83.00 The AUD/JPY pair now drops -1.80% to 83...

US Dollar keeps Highs Near 94.80 The greenback, tracked by the US Dollar Index, has recovered the smile on Tuesday and is managing well to keep the trade in the upper end of the range near 94.80...

EUR/USD Trims Daily Losses after US Trade Data EUR/USD edged slightly higher and continued to move off daily lows following the release of disappointing US trade data. US trade deficit widened in February by 2.6% to a 6-month high of 47.06 billion, from 45...

GBP/USD Tests 50% Fibo Support Cable managed to cut through bids around 1.42 and fell to 1.4175 (50% of 1.3835-1.4515) levels as traders continue to ignore slight improvement in the UK services PMI report...

Can WTI End Its Biggest Consecutive Daily Decline Since 2009? North American benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is up today and trying to end its biggest consecutive daily decline since 2009...

FXWIREPRO: Kiwis Dairy Industry Likely to Struggle General business sentiment in New Zealand dropped from +13% in December to -1% in March...

CAD/JPY Breaks Major Support 84, Decline Till 82 Is Possible Major resistance – 85.20 (7 W EMA) Major support - 84 The pair has broken major support 84 and declined till 83.85 .It is currently trading around 84.01. Short term trend is bearish as long as resistance 85.20 holds. The break of 85...

NZD/USD: The Pair went Below the Level of 0.6860 Due to last week’s statement made by Janet Yellen about the plan of the gradual increase in the interest rate in the USA, the USD fell all over the market...

NZD/USD: Price Index of the Dairy Products and Efforts of RBNZ New Zealand’s economy is based on exports; the second largest export sector of the country’s economy is the timber industry and the largest one id agricultural sector. About 18% of the total exports belong to the dairy product...

Analytical Review of the Currency Pair USD/JPY Technical data of the currency pair: Previous closing: 111.34; Daily range: 110.45-111.36; Opening: 111.34...

UK Service Sector Improves, but Brexit Fears Weighs on the Outlook - ING James Knightley, Research Analyst at ING, notes that the UK’s service sector purchasing managers’ index has risen a fraction more than expected to stand at 53.7 in March versus 52.7 in February (consensus was 53.5...

FXWIREPRO: Gold May Drop to $1130 Area If Fails to Break Higher Gold bulls are facing critical test at this point, to break above or break below. Our previous call, to buy gold at $1200/troy ounce with $1180 stop loss is valid and in profit as gold is trading around $1230/troy ounce area...

For Kiwi, Focus Is on Dairy Auctions Today New Zealand Dollar, riding on weaker Dollar and recent improved sentiments towards commodities broken above a key resistance around 0.69 area. However that break has so far been short lived as Dollar has snapped back its loss broad based...

Brent Oil Stays Near One-Month Low on Falling US Demand Brent prices trade at lowest since March 4 as investors worry about fading prospects of OPEC and non-OPEC output freeze and fresh signs of falling US demand. At the time of writing, Brent oil was trading 10 cents or 0...

EUR/USD Depressed Around 1.1350, US Data Eyed The common currency remains on the defensive on Tuesday, with EUR/USD trading in the area of daily lows near 1.1350...

USD/JPY Keeps Multi-Month Lows Near 110.30 The better sentiment around the Japanese currency has sent USD/JPY to test the 110.40/30 band, fresh multi-month lows. USD/JPY stronger on risk aversion Spot has accelerated its downside to levels last seen in October 2014 in the proximity of 110...