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FXWIREPRO: USD/CAD Regains Upward Movement After Oil Rebound Fades The USD/CAD surged higher on Monday, as oil prices declined towards 41.16 $ per barrel...

Swedish Companies More Optimistic On Economy: Riksbank Survey Swedish companies are now more optimistic about the economic situation though they facing difficulties in raising prices, results of the Riksbank's February 2016 Business Survey showed Monday...

Australian Dollar Off Early Lows Against Most Majors The Australian dollar came off from its early lows against most major counterparts in European trading on Monday. The aussie recovered to 0.7626 against the greenback and 85.07 against the yen, off early 4-day low of 0...

Croatia Retail Sales Fall For First Time In 5 Months Croatia's retail sales decreased at the start of the year, after rising in the previous four months, figures from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. Retail sales volume dropped a seasonally and working-day-adjusted 0...

UK: Politics is Going to be More Important than Economics - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the politics is going to be more important than economics for the next three months in the UK and so far, both major political parties seem pretty keen on tearing the...

Australian Stock Exchange CEO Quits Amid Bribe Investigation The head of Australia's main stock exchange resigned on Monday amid an investigation into allegations that a gaming firm he once ran made a bribery payment several years ago to the family of Cambodia's prime minister...

Asian Stocks Gain as Shanghai Composite Jumps to Two-Month High Asian stocks rallied in late trading, with a regional gauge erasing declines, as Chinese shares climbed above the 3,000 level for the first time since January after policy makers loosened controls on margin lending...

Yen Slides Against Most Majors Reversing direction, the Japanese yen slipped against its most major rivals in early European deals on Monday. The yen edged down to 75.75 against the kiwi, 115.02 against the franc and 85.60 against the loonie, off early 5-day high of 75.13, 4-day highs of 114...

Italy Current Account Deficit Narrows In January Italy's current account deficit decreased slightly in January from a year ago, figures from the Bank of Italy showed Monday. The current account deficit narrowed to EUR 1.07 billion in January from EUR 1...

Brexit Could Cost UK £100bn – Investec Research Team at Investec, notes that the report commissioned by the CBI and carried out by accountancy firm PwC, warns a Brexit could potentially cost the country £100bn and nearly one million jobs by 2020...

Risk Recovery More Important than Data for USD - BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, suggests that the Fed Presidents Lacker and Lockhart speak today and may emphasize the possibility that policy could be tightened in June, even as these comments could be balanced by the more dovish Presidents Eva...

USD/JPY Unmotivated Around 111.50 USD/JPY is trading almost unchanged at the beginning of the week, trading in a narrow range between 111.20 and 111.60...

Technical Analysis of NZD/CAD for March 21, 2016 NZD/CAD has been moving sideways for almost two weeks; and this does not seem to be over as the price remains within slightly descending main channel boundaries...

Technical Analysis of CHF/JPY for March 21, 2016 Since my original idea on CHF/JPY was published, price remained near the sell entry point - R2 (115.40). Today, price started to move lower which is likely to continue to test one of two support levels, either S2 (114.10) or S3 (113...

Global Macro Overview for 21/03/2016 In the USA, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 90.0 points in March, down 1.7 points from a month before...

U.S. Dollar Rises Amid Risk Aversion The U.S. dollar strengthened against the other major currencies in the early European session on Monday amid risk aversion, as oil prices extended decline and China's central bank weakened the central parity rate of yuan by the most since January. The U.K...

Eurozone Current A/c Surplus Falls For Second Month Eurozone's current account surplus decreased for a second straight month in January, data from the European Central Bank showed Monday. The seasonally-and-working-day adjusted current account surplus dropped to EUR 25.4 billion from EUR 28...

Lithuania Industrial Production Grows In February Lithuania's industrial production climbed notably in February from a year ago, figures from Statistics Lithuania showed Monday. Industrial production rose a working-day-adjusted 6.3 percent year-over-year in February...

GBP/USD Likely to Extend the Rebound to 1.4570 – UOB In view of the research team at UOB Group, the pair could see its upside extended towards 1.4570. Key Quotes “While the strong rally from the low of 1...

USD/CHF Potential Visit to 0.9799 – Commerzbank According to Karen Jones, Head of FICC Technical Analysis at Commerzbank, the pair could attempt a bounce towards the 0.9800 handle. Key Quotes “USD/CHF last week sold off towards the 2015-2016 uptrend at .9635”...