The Danske Bank Research Team notes RBNZ expects NZD to undergo significant depreciation, with the currency’s valuation unsustainable in terms of NZ’s economic fundamentals. Key Quotes “The NZD dropped more than 1...
Benoit Coeure, a member of the European Central Bank's (ECB) Executive Board, told an Italian newspaper today spelt out the parameter that will decide the duration of the ECB’s QE. “It will end only once we get a strong sense that inflation is converging towards 2 percent”, said Mr. Coeure...
The KBC Bank Research Desk, comments that the FOMC statement signals that the Fed is optimistic on growth but uncertain about inflation, and further adds that markets are expecting a rate hike by the Fed in January 2016, with risks tilted towards a November/December lift-off too...
On Thursday the yellow metal extended losses from the previous session, as market players reassessed their expectations for the timing of the first U.S. rate hike after the Federal Reserve was optimistic about the economy...
Don Thompson, who will soon leave the company, had two and a half years as chief executive after having worked at McDonald's for a quarter of a century. Late on Wednesday, the company said that Thompson will retire March 1...
On Thursday the Japanese currency traded lower and the Australian dollar gained in early Asia in mixed moves after the Federal Reserve said overnight the U.S...
GBP/USD trades modestly flat in the late-ASIAN session, continuing its side-trend as markets continue to mull over FOMC largely anticipated decision and Bank of England (BOE) Governor Carney comments. Continues consolidation below 1.5200 The GBP/USD pair traded unchanged at 1...
Gold prices on Comex extended losses in the Asian session and traded lower as traders continued to weigh the FOMC’s patient approach towards policy normalization in the US. Currently, gold trades lower by -0.40% at 1282.10 levels, pulling away from intraday lows of 1278...
The TradeTheNews Team shares that RBNZ’s decision to drop its tightening bias and introduce the possibility of a rate cut sent NZD/USD plunge towards 0.7310, lowest since 2011...
FXStreet Editor and Analyst, Dhwani Mehta, retains her bearish outlook for XAU/USD, expecting USD bulls to lead the pair to test its daily lows. Key Quotes “Gold prices in terms of US dollar (XAU/USD) gave away previous gains and ended lower on Wednesday at 1284...
The New Zealand Dollar is reacting higher following the RBNZ decision to maintain unchanged its interest rates at 3.5% and its statement. The bank affirmed that they "expect to keep the OCR on hold for some time...
The Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee is set to announce its latest policy monetary decision at 2:00 pm ET. Expectations are for, well, not much. The Fed is expected to keep interest rates pegged at 0%-0...
US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Prices may be preparing to decline after prices put in a bearish Evening Star candlestick pattern. Near-term support is at 11725, the intersection of the 14...
AUD/USD is currently trading at 0.7970 with a high of 0.8026 and low of 0.7899. AUD/USD is stablising since the drop back down through the 0.80 handle and has caught a minor bounce at 0.7940, and has come out of the consolidating and was paid at 0...
USDCAD reached new high this month 2009 level high. Strong US economy with Canada's interest-rate cut The Canadian dollar is worth just above 80 cents U.S. today...
Singapore unexpectedly eased monetary policy, sending the currency to the weakest since 2010 against the U.S. dollar as the country joined global central banks in shoring up growth amid dwindling inflation...
Boeing Co. published a Q4 profit that beat analysts’ estimates and predicted that it would make good in 2015 in converting a record jetliner-order backlog into cash, Bloomberg reported. The company's shares jumped in early trading...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his finance chief pledged to avoid a standoff with creditors as stock and bond markets tumbled on the prospect of a prolonged fight with fellow European governments...
Gold traded with slight changes, near a five-month high as investors assessed the outlook for U.S. interest rates before the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting. Economists polled by Bloomberg suppose the Fed will stay focused on raising rates about mid-term...
The only preview you need of today's first FOMC statement for 2015, one which has already cornered Yellen as any additional USD strength from here on out will certainly be economy and S&P500 negative, and who as Deutsche summarizes is damned if she does, and damned if she doesn't, and that as...
