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After three days off, the S&P 500 opened up 11 points this morning and promptly went...straight down. I mean straight down, down 18 points in less than 20 minutes. That's a lot for 20 minutes; the S&P will normally swing in a 12 to 15 point range over the course of a whole trading session...

Another day, another decade high in the dollar. It's business as usual for the world's reserve currency today, led by dollar strength against the Japanese yen and commodity dollars...

Over the last week or so the Australian dollar made numerous attempts at the resistance level at 0.82 only to be sent back often before finally finishing last week moving through this key level. In doing so it was able to reach a one month high near 0...

THE EURO closed lower on Tuesday. Today's midrange close sets the stage for a steady to steady opening when Wednesday's night session begins trading. Stochastics and the RSI remain bearish signalling that sideways to lower prices are possible nearterm...

The US dollar is gaining ground on Tuesday as investors are betting on safer assets such as the Greenback and the Gold. The USD is the top performer among majors, including a maximum of six years against its Canadian counterpart...

NZD/USD is currently trading at 0.7630 with a high of 0.7681 and a low of 0.7622 and is down 0.57% on the day. NZD/USD has dropped on the back of the CPI results. These came in below the consensus for 4Q, with the actual printing -0.2% vs 0% expected, while the YoY read came in at 0.8% vs 0...

The selling interest is picking up pace around the EUR at the end of the session on Tuesday, sending EUR/USD to 2-day lows around 1.1540. EUR/USD remains fragile The earlier bull attempt beyond 1...

KPMG, the administrators for Alpari UK customers have released an FAQ on the current situation. Here’s the key points Client money held in segregated accounts where there are sufficient funds to repay all eligible clients in full will be returned to clients...

Markets are still very slow across the board because of the holiday yesterday in the US. However, this may change today as normal volumes should be back. Based on USD view, we still see currency trading higher with more gains in view if stocks will continue up...

EUR/USD remained in red in the European morning, after Germany’s factory gate prices fell for a 17th consecutive month in December last year. The EUR/USD headed south and trades now at 1.1580 levels, down -0.21% so far. The pair retreated after posting intraday high at 1.1602 levels...

For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the USD declined 0.19% against the CAD to close at 1.1951. In the Asian session, at GMT0400, the pair is trading at 1.1976, with the USD trading 0.22% higher from yesterday's close. This morning, IMF slashed its projections for the growth of Canadian economy to 2...

The better tone around the greenback is relegating EUR/USD to test the lower end fo the intraday range in the 1.1580/70 band. EUR/USD weaker despite China Chinese data surprised investors to the upside in early trade, although the risk sentiment remained eclipsed by a renewed wave of USD strength...

It’s been a rather lackluster start to what promises to be an action-packed week for traders. The only economic reports of note were Eurozone current account data from November (worse than expected at a €18...

The Aussie erased previous gains and fell against the US counterpart, as weaker commodities prices offset bullish Chinese data. Currently, the AUD/USD traded lower by -0.51% at 0.8169 levels, having clocked day’s high at 0.8213 levels post the release of China GDP numbers...

The Financial Markets Authority knew bust forex broker Global Brokers NZ was in breach of financial regulations, but appears to have taken no action...