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FX Outlook: JPY Targets 110.00, Stalls at the Initial Test, but Pressure Continues All eyes were on the JPY pairs today, led by USD sales down towards the March lows, breaking below here and 110.50 to put in a test on 110.00...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 18:18
Daily Analysis of Major Pairs for April 5, 2016 EUR/USD: Once EUR/USD tested the resistance line at 1.1400, it became difficult for the price to go above that line. Bulls have been battering that defense line since last week...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 18:00
EUROSTOXX50 : The Index is Reversing Downward Following the rise in the index from the lows of mid February at the level of 2700.0, the index EUROSTOXX50 managed to won back part of the losses sustained from the beginning of last December...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 17:51
EUROSTOXX50: World Stock Indices are Declining With the opening of today’s trading day global stock indices have been declining...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 17:46
Gold continued to be weighed down along with other major commodities on Monday despite persisting weakness in the US dollar and lowered expectations for further Fed rate hikes...
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Francis Dogbe, 5 April 2016, 17:42 #gold
FXWIREPRO: GBP/USD Dips Below Lower Range, Bearish Bias Increases GBP/USD declined on Tuesday as Sterling was hurt by PMI monthly survey of purchasing managers in the service sector made slight improvement in the previous month, but still suggested economy has slowed in first quarter...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 17:39
With Iran refusing to play ball on cuts to oil production, Saudi Arabia is tightening its regime of economic austerity. Annual tax revenues will go up by £70bn and previously free services such as health care will be privatised...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 5 April 2016, 17:31
Why the Australian dollar should be considered overvalued and why the future of copper prices matter. Australia produces almost a million metric tons of copper annually, and contains the world’s sixth largest resource of economically viable copper reserves...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 5 April 2016, 17:25 #forex
Oil prices keep some pressure on the commodity currencies and that’s one reason why the AUD got no lasting help from an unchanged RBA. The policy statement seemed pretty neutral but did reference the threat of further AUD appreciation. AUD/USD may have bounced as much as it can...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 5 April 2016, 16:11 #forex
U.S Treasury Climbs ahead of March FOMC Minutes, Weak Oil Prices U...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:47
Risk sentiment will remain driven by Fed rate expectations and conditions in China. From that angle this week’s main focus will be on Wednesday’s release of the March FOMC meeting minutes and Caixin PMIs in China...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 5 April 2016, 15:46 #forex
GDT Price Index Preview: What to Expect of NZD/USD? Global Dairy Trade (GDT) will release its dairy price index, which is published every two weeks and uses a weighted-average of the percentage changes in dairy prices sold at auction...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:44
BoE ‘On Hold’ Until Early 2017 – Rabobank Analyst at Rabobank Carlijn Prins believes the BoE could hike rates in February 2017. Key Quotes “BoE Governor Carney recently admitted that Brexit was the greatest domestic financial risk to the UK...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:41
Gold Stays Near Daily Highs ahead of US Data Gold is trading slightly below its daily high of $1236.85 levels ahead of the data release in the US, which could show an improvement in the service sector output...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:36 #gold
USD/CHF Sinks to Lows Near 0.9570 The ongoing risk aversion is prompting USD/CHF to retrace the earlier spike just above the 0.9600 handle and return to daily lows in the 0.9570 area...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:33 #usdchf
RBA Acknowledges Stronger AUD but Not Overly Concerned Yet - MUFG Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, notes that the Australian dollar has weakened modestly in the Asian trading session undermined early this week by renewed weakness in commodity prices...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:28
US: ISM Nonmanufacturing Index to Rise Only Marginally - TDS Millan Mulraine, Deputy Head US Macro Strategy at TDS, suggests that the US economic growth momentum has slowed, and while the headwinds to the manufacturing sector appear to have abated the fallout in the service sector should continue...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:26
EUR/JPY – Sell Off Continues, Eyes 125.00 Handle JPY bulls are in no mood to relax amid fresh oil-driven risk-off in the equities and are now eyeing psychological level of 125.00 in the EUR/JPY cross...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:24
AUD/USD Door Open for Further Downside – Commerzbank Karen Jones, Head of FICC Technical Analysis at Commerzbank, noted the relevance of the key support at 0.7477. Key Quotes “AUD/USD held sideways and has started to erode the accelerated uptrend at...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:20
AUD/JPY Attacks 83 Handle, at Fresh Monthly Lows The AUD/JPY cross extends its bearish run into a fourth day this Tuesday, with the bears relentless on the back of persistent risk-off market profile. AUD/JPY tests 83.00 The AUD/JPY pair now drops -1.80% to 83...
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Roberto Jacobs, 5 April 2016, 15:18