The Bank of Canada HAD to raise its 2016 growth forecast, since the Governor's boss, Minister Morneau, is out touting the benefits of fiscal stimulus, and December/January GDP surprised on the upside...
EUR/USD Drops Further to Test 1.1270 The selling pressure is now gathering further steam around the euro, dragging EUR/USD to test lows in the 1.1270 region...
The Euro remains very range bound. It still by and large tracks the Bund/Treasury spread, albeit trading a little higher than that spread would imply at the moment...
Risk sentiment improved of late, regardless of the IMF warning that a prolonged period of slow growth has left the global economy more exposed to negative risks...
USD/CAD Cautiously Bearish – Scotiabank In view of Eric Theoret, FX Strategist at Scotiabank, USD/CAD's outlook remains tilted to the bearish side. Key Quotes “Trend and momentum indicators are decisively bearish”...
The British pound has not flinched against the euro on news that the Leave camp has no grown bigger than the Remain In camp with pollsters ICM. Their latest polling data shows the Remain In vote stands at 42% while Leave is at 45%. Undecideds are at 12...
FXWIREPRO: BTC/USD Faces Strong Resistance at $428, Good to Buy at Dips. Major Resistance - $428 BTC/USD has slightly retreated after making a high of $426.67. It is currently trading around $424. Short term trend is slightly bullish as long as support $400 holds...
We think today’s BoC meeting could see a meaningful change in narrative, with the first upward revision to 2016 growth in almost a year. The improved outlook stems from two sources...
US Retail Sales Fail to Pick Up Momentum in March - ING Rob Carnell, Chief International Economist at ING, notes that the US retail sales fall 0.3% mom in March, while the "core" rises only 0.1% mom...
FXWIREPRO: Cyclical Effects Between Uk Inflation-Brexit- BoE- GBP The inflation continues its global trend higher with UK and Sweden following the preliminary German and EU reads higher. U.K. Consumer prices went up 0.5% YoY in March of 2016 which is on track of BoE's target of 2%, following a 0...
GBP/USD Trade Idea Major Support – 1.4185 (200 day MA) Cable has recovered yesterday after making a low of 1.41965 (near 200 HMA) .It is currently trading around 1.42391. Intraday trend is slightly bullish as long as support 1.4185 holds. Any break below 1.4185 will drag the pair down till 1...
GBP/USD –Confluence of Resistance Intact Despite Weak US Data GBP/USD failed to take out confluence of technical resistance around 1.4250 (hourly 50-MA+ 50-DMA + 1.4252-38.2% of 1.4669-1.3835) despite dismal US retail sales release. Hovers around 1.4240 Prices clocked a post data high of 1...
Technical Analysis of Silver for April 13, 2016 Technical outlook and chart setups: Silver is pulling back after hitting fresh highs at $16.20 levels yesterday. The metal is seen to be trading at $16.00 levels at this moment, and looking to drop lower towards at least $15...
USD/JPY Back to 109.00 on Poor US Data The upside in the greenback lost some momentum following US data, with USD/JPY returning to the 109.00 neighbourhood. USD/JPY down from 109.40 The pair has faded the spike to fresh 4-day highs near 109...
EUR/NZD Analysis for April 13, 2016 Recently, EUR/NZD has been moving downwards. As I had expected, the price tested the level of 1.6319 in a high volume. EUR/NZD has broken the upward channel. According to the H4 time frame, watch only for selling opportunities on rallies...
The bullish momentum around the AUD/USD pair gained further traction after the Chinese trade data showed that exports and imports improved last month. AUD/USD sees a 30-pips rally post-China data Currently, the AUD/USD pair rockets 1.57% at fresh nine-month highs of 0...
Looking ahead to the BoC monetary policy report, focus will be on the revisions to growth given the stimulatory Trudeau budget which is could see 2016 marked up to closer to 2.0% and 2017 around 2.7% - 0.5% higher in each case. In light of the breach of support levels through 1...
Oil in Global Economy Series: Future of Oil can be Seen in Present of Coal If I would have told you back in 2008, a company whose share price was trading at $1260, would go to zero in next eight years, you would have called me crazy, if I would have told you again in 2011 the same thing, when sha...
USD/JPY Downside Appears Limited – UOB Analysts at UOB Group see the pair’s decline as limited in the near term. Key Quotes “As highlighted in recent updates, while the next significant support is much lower at 106...
