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Analysts at UOB noted , that other than the ECB policy decision this Thursday (21 Apr), we will have the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) April meeting minutes (19 Apr), the ECB bank lending survey (19 Apr) and the ECB survey of professional forecasters (22 Apr...
Valeria Bednarik, chief analyst at FXStreet explained that risk aversion led the way at the beginning of the week, after oil producers failed to reach an agreement in the Qatar meeting. "Surprisingly, the common currency was unable to run as usual lately on safe-haven demand, holding below the 1...
We do not expect any ECB action at this week’s policy meeting. After the big package in March, we think the ECB will have a few months before it needs to go back to the drawing board...
Crude oil prices slipped as expected after OPEC and non-OPEC members Sunday failed to come to agreement about freezing production at January levels. However, oil prices did not fall as far as the market feared and in U.S...
GBP/USD Capped at Key Resistance Before 1.4346 Trend Line GBP/USD was initially dragged up on the crosses with GBP/JPY making a huge rally as Yen got sold-off. GBP/USD has staged a continued upside effort and headed for a break of key resistance...
Brent Crude: We Still Expect the Barrel at USD46/bl in Q4 Despite Doha- Danske According to Jens Nærvig Pedersen, Senior Analyst at Danske Bank, crude oil will recover during 2016 despite the lack of agreement on a production freeze on Sunday in Doha...
Oil is Falling — So Why does US Keep Pumping? It's called the law of supply and demand. When a commodity costs more to produce than the current market price, producers usually stop producing it. But when it comes to U.S...
FxWirePro: EUR/USD Resumes Upside After Breaking Resistance Level at 1.1300 The EUR/USD pair inched higher on Monday as the pair attracted buyers as weak dollar and falling oil prices increased the demand for euro. The pair initially dipped towards 1.1274 levels in the early European session...
EUR/USD Consolidates Above 1.1300 The euro reached a fresh daily high against the US dollar during the American session at 1.1331, the strongest level since last Wednesday. Afterwards it pulled back modestly but remained above 1.1300...
Lower US Supply to Underpin Oil price Despite Talks Failure LONDON — The failure by oil-rich nations to agree to freeze production weighed on crude prices Monday. But analysts say oil is likely to rise in the longer-term as many companies, particularly in the U.S., scale back output...
Here's the Problem with this Earnings Season There's a problem with earnings this season: stocks are trading at the high end of their trading range and are also expensive...
Doha Failure Exposes Hedge Funds That Were Betting on Oil Freeze (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds really wanted the Doha oil summit to work. Money managers kept wagers on rising prices near a nine-month high in the days leading up to Sunday’s meeting of oil producers...
EUR/USD: Comfortable Around 1.13 Handle - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank noted that EUR/USD looks relatively stable around the 1.13 line but the EUR traded poorly overall last week, losing ground against every G10 counterpart apart from the CHF...
FxWirePro: Gold Dips Towards Lower Range But Bias Remains Bullish The yellow metal traded higher on Monday, as dollar declined slightly and European shares dipped following no deal between oil producers to cut oil output which sent oil prices down...
USD/JPY: Capped at 100 Hr SMA on Strong Recovery USD/JPY has rallied as markets recover and some after the Doha event that failed to find a concord between oil ministers in OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting over the weekend...
Analysts at UOB in Singapore want to see technical confirmation of the AUD/USD’s uptrend triggered before chasing the currency higher...
The EUR has recently depreciated versus the USD and with theEuropean Central Bank meeting due this week that trend lower could be questioned. All eyes will be on Thursday’s ECB governing council meeting which should set the tone for the shared currency over the remainder of the month...
BNP Paribas' commodity strategists view that the Doha meeting produced the most bearish outcome for oil prices amongst the various scenarios the market was looking at: no deal, no future calendar and a fight for market share that is still very much at the heart of producer policy. "We think the 2...
