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This is the 3rd increase in a row Oil rigs up to 337 from 328 last week Gas rigs up to 86 from 85 last week Miscellaneous rigs remained at 1. Texas rigs were the bid gainer rising from 178 to 191. Of course Texas accounts for - not the majority - but 45% of the total...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 19:40 #crude oil
GBPUSD extends to new highs. A week ago, there was a poll that sent the GBPUSD racing lower by 172 pips in 15 minutes. It looked like this.... That can wreak havoc with your trading and your P/L...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 18:58
The UK’s EU referendum on Thursday (23 June) will be the main focus in the week ahead, but we also highlight other developments within the G10 FX bloc...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 17 June 2016, 18:38 #EUR/USD
The long awaited speech is out and it's a dudLaudatio for Theo WaigelSpeech by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, in honour of Dr...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 18:23
Our poll tracker is pointing to a 47% probability of Leave,and so we would assume the FX markets are pricing around this probability. There has been a strong relationship between the performance of GBP's TWI and the betting market probabilities and similarly with EURCHF...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 17 June 2016, 17:54 #forex
The latest tea-leaf reading from the Atlanta Fed Broadly speaking there's not been much from the data this week to change it. Now we wait in anticipation for the NY Fed, GDP Nowcast. They took a week off last week due to the FOMC blackout period. The June 3rd number stood at 2.0% for Q2...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 17:06 #GDP
Not to be confused with the Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast. Maybe this is the Feds problems. Too many districts adding more confusion (and eroding credibility in the process...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:59
Exchanges battening down the hatches Will have special measures in place from June 20-27th due to referendum Cash markets will operate as normal and circuit breakers will remain "Fast market" will be declared in index and equity option contracts The term "fast markets" means that quotes and price...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:33
Sneaks a peak above The GBPUSD has reached the 200 hour MA and snuck-a-peek above at the 1.43142 level. The high reached 1.43186 and currently trades at 1.4306. There are additional overhead levels against the 1.4335 dn 1.4349 where the 50% and the 100 day MA are found...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:32
200 hour and 200 bar MA on 4-hour at the same area The EURUSD has extended up to the targets resistance ag. the 200 bar MAs defined by the 200 hour MA and the 200 bar MA on the 4-hour chart. Earlier in the US session , the 100 bar combo (hourly and 4-hour) held...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:18
Moves away from 100 hour MA/Below 50% The USDCAD has moved to new session lows. The price of oil is on the rebound moving up from below $46 earlier today. The price is currently trading at $47.18 Looking at the hourly chart, the price sits between the pairs 100 and 200 hour MAs at 1.2887 and 1...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:11
Moving from chat up lines to business In the short term, Brexit would be a problem for all but above all, Britain Believes the remain camp will win If UK leaves there will be financial tensions Either way the EU needs to rethink itself...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:06
Double bubble Bullard Mismatch between markets and Fed dot plot is causing distortions in global markets Best thing for Fed to say is that the economy is not likely to change much in the foreseeable future Fed should acknowledge that the economy won't change much without an outside shock Fed shou...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 16:04
US stock market open 17 June 2016 S&P -6pts to 2071 Dow -54pts to 17676 Nasdaq -26pts to 4818 US 10 year yields 1.60% -2bp...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 15:58
All eyes are open but... In golf they talk about being committed to the swing. In trading? Do you have a conviction. Adam speaks a lot about fundamental convictions. In fact, he will be speaking fundamentals at the ACT traders course starting on June 24...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 15:14
Bloomberg picking up comments from MNI There is some upside potential to inflation than forecasts show Measures from March are still new and mon pol has long lags Focus is now on near term developments We need all incoming data in the next months before deciding...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 15:11
YoY 1.5% vs 1.6% est. Core YoY 2.1% vs. 2.1% Canada CPI NSA for the month of May came in at 0.4% vs 0.5% estimate. The YoY came in at 1.5% vs. 1.6% est and 1.7% last month. So each was 0.1% weaker than expectations. The core numbers came in as expected at 0.3% and 2.1% respectively...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 15:08
Details of the May 2016 US housing starts and building permits data report 17 June 2016 Prior 1.172m. Revised to 1.167m Building permits 1.138m vs 1.150m exp. Prior 1.130m Starts don't drop as much as expected and permits miss but gain from last month...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 15:05
Russian president Putin making a keynote address 17 June 2016 EU remains key trade partner for Russia EU business leaders want to work with Russia starting talks with EU on technical cooperation as first step to restoring relations On the Russian economy...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 14:21
BMG Research have had their fair share of attention this week 17 June 2016 The pollsters were due to release their latest findings today but, with general co-operation and some sensitivity to yesterday's awful events along with a suspension of campaigning from both sides will now publish at 01...
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Sherif Hasan, 17 June 2016, 14:19