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Analytical Review of the Currency Pair EUR/USD Technical data of the currency pair: Previous closing: 1.1389; Daily range: 1.1371-1.1412; Opening: 1.1400...

What Drives AUD/USD's Prospects in Long Term (in H2'2016) and OTC Positions? The rally extended last week as the AUD continued to push to fresh 2016 highs...

FXWIREPRO: Hedge AUD/USD's Exporter Fx Risks on Long Term Forecasts and Events Via 2:1 Backspreads Over the longer-term, we expect AU growth to remain subpar and AUD to drift lower. But, there have been a few key things to watch out in H2 of 2016...

U.S. Government Bonds Climb As Investors Eye Crude Oil Prices, FOMC Minutes The U.S. sovereign bonds rallied on Monday as investors are closely monitoring a spike in the prices of crude oil and waiting to read any hints from Federal Reserve members’ comments for future policy actions...

RBA Rate Hike Possible as AUD Appreciates Significantly Since Mid-January The Australian dollar came under pressure today morning after Australia recorded weak retail data. This is expected to reflect concerns regarding the rate decision, according to Commerzbank...

Gold Intraday Analysis for April 04 , 2016 I found strong signs of strength in the background and a potential professional accumulation phase...

Technical Analysis of NZD/CAD for April 04, 2016 NZD/CAD was moving within the descending channel up until the 28th of February when price broke below the channel. Fibonacci applied to the channel breakout point shows support and resistance levels and price action around them. Clearly the 38...

EUR/NZD Analysis for April 04, 2016 Recently, EUR/NZD has been moving upwards. The price tested the level of 1.6645 in a high volume. EUR/NZD is trading in a defined upward trend channel. Watch for buying opportunities on dips inside the channel...

Global Macro Overview for 04/04/2016 Global macro overview for 04/04/2016: (Crude Oil) Oil has been in decline once again overnight as on Friday, traders continue responding to reports that Saudi Arabia may not be willing to take part in the price freeze without all other major producers, both OP...

Europe Roundup: Sterling Hits 2-Year Low Against Trade-weighted Basket; Dollar Hovers Near 5-1/2-Mth Low Vs Euro Market Roundup Donald Trump predicts massive recession, economists puzzled – Washington Post, BoJ Tankan corporate price expectations weak, CPI +0.8% exp in year, +1...

GBP/JPY Trade Idea Minor resistance 158.60 (trend line joining 159.56 and 158.83) Major support -158 The pair has recovered after making a low of 158.16 at the time of writing. It is currently trading around 158.83. Intraday trend is slightly bullish as long as support 158 holds...

FXWIREPRO: Optimize AUD/CHF Vols With Vega Instrument to Hedge Downside Risks The current implied volatilities of ATM puts of AUDCHF are spiking at 18.42% and at 12.85% for 1 week tenors...

GBP/USD April Fooled Bears GBP/USD is back above 1.43 handle and is showing no signs of exhaustion, indicating Friday’s fall was an April fool’s day move that trapped bears. Will it last? Today’s move lacks any fundamental trigger, but so did the move on Friday...

USD Longs Cut Again, CAD Shorts Fall – Nomura David Wagner, Research Analyst at Nomura, suggests that according to the IMM data for the week ended March 29, non-commercial accounts continued to sell USD to the tune of -$1.5bn, bringing positioning in USD to $7.4bn...

EUR/USD Trims Daily Losses, Approaches 1.1400 EUR/USD fell to test fresh daily lows during the European session but found support at the 1.1360/55 area and bounced, trimming intraday losses...

GBP: Low Turnout will Increase Brexit Risk - MUFG Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, notes that the pound is continuing to weaken and becoming more volatile ahead of the EU referendum on the 23rd June...

GBP/USD Vulnerable, Attention Shifted to 1.4085/56 – Commerzbank Karen Jones, Head of FICC Technical Analysis at Commerzbank, sees the support area at 1.4085/56 has regained attention. Key Quotes “GBP/USD failed to maintain its breach of the 3 month resistance line last week and sold off sharply”...

USD/JPY Downside Risks Have Increased – UOB Spot remains expose to further pullbacks, suggested the research team at UOB Group. Key Quotes “The downside risk has clearly increased with the unexpected sharp drop last Friday”. “However, supports are stacks at 111...

Gold Drops Further to Test 50-DMA, US Data in Focus Gold prices accelerated to the downside over the last hour as the USD recovery gained traction in Europe, as focus now turns towards the US economic releases. Gold heavily sold-off into Fed rate hike bets Currently, gold drops -0.46% to 1216...

GBP/USD Faces Strong Resistance Around 1.4250, Break Above Targets 1.4320/1.4360 Candle stick Pattern Formed- Hammer Potential Reversal Zone (PRZ) – 1.4250 The pair has recovered after making a low of 1.4170 level. It is currently trading around 1.42286...