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BOJ Refrains from Meeting Market Expectations – MUFG Derek Halpenny, European Head of GMR at MUFG, suggests that it is no surprise that USD/JPY is down over 2.5% today after the BOJ decided against implementing further monetary easing measures despite very high speculation of action being taken...
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German CPI Preview: What to Expect of EUR/USD? The bid tone surrounding the EUR/USD pair strengthened over the last hours as upbeat macro data from Germany and Eurozone boosted the sentiment around the EUR...
Technical Analysis of EUR/JPY for April 28, 2016 General overview for 28/04/2016: The simple corrective cycle, labeled as abc irregular flat correction, might have been completed and according to the main chart another upward leg might be made. Moreover, any violation of the level of 121...
USD/JPY Attempts Tepid Bounce Above 108, Awaits US GDP The bears appear to face exhaustion after the relentless slide seen in the USD/JPY so far this Thursday, with markets now focussed on the US advance GDP numbers for next direction...
EUR/USD: Neutral: Likely in 1.1200/1.1400 range. We just turned neutral on EUR yesterday and there is no change to the view. We continue to expect this pair to trade between 1.1200 and 1.1400 for now. Looking further ahead, the odds for a break above 1...
While the risk of a cut at next week’s meeting has increased meaningfully, we keep in mind various factors that may encourage the RBA to wait: Copy signals, Trade and Earn $ on Forex4you - https://www.share4you.com/en/?affid=0fd9105 1...
Our economists expect the BoJ to consider a more aggressive stance, irrespective of more stable risk sentiment as for instance reflected in the Nikkei rebounding above 17000...
The Fed flies under the radar in April. The April FOMC statement was broadly in line with expectations...
The FOMC statement was slightly more hawkish than we had expected in that the previous statement that “global economic and financial developments continue to pose risks “ was deleted, which presumably reflects the better tone of Chinese data recently, and the softer dollar...
Back to monitoring global developments As was widely expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) did not change policy at its April meeting. However, its updated statement nudged the Fed slightly in a less dovish direction, leaving the door open for a June hike in our view...
The RBNZ kept its policy rate unchanged at 2.25%, against our expectations, but maintained a dovish policy stance, stating that “further policy easing may be required to ensure that future average inflation settles near the middle of the target range”...
Key to markets is the wording around the risks to the outlook which is usually found in the second paragraph. Back in March, the Fed suggested that “global economic and financial development continue to pose risks” while not giving an explicit assessment of the balance of those risks...
As we expected, the FOMC took a cautious interpretation of domestic and external developments at its April meeting...
As expected, the FOMC left interest rates unchanged, and left the door open for a June hike. Whether the threshold is crossed depends on the path of US data between now and then...
FxWirePro: GBP/USD Faces Strong Support at 1.4450, Good to Buy at Dips Major resistance – 1.4668 (Feb 4th high 2016) Major support – 1.4450 (resistance turned into support) Cable has broken minor support 1.4500 and declined till 1.4470 yesterday...
Euro Zone Sentiment Improves As ECB Opens Qe Tap Euro Zone sentiment report showed confidence improved as European Central Bank unveiled new stimulus, more so due to its inclusion of corporate securities. However Brexit possibilities seem to be weighing...
USD/JPY: At the 18-Month Lows Again Review and dynamics The forecast we provided in the previous review turns out to be correct (if investors feel disappointed with the Bank of Japan’s decision and comments by the US Fed this week, the pair will continue to decline to the recent lows of 108.00...
