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Research Team at BBH, suggests that the dollar remains vulnerable as markets continue to pile into the foreign currencies and EM FX. “The implied yield on the December 2016 Fed Funds futures contract is now around 0.54%, the lowest since February 29...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 14:06
Research Team at ANZ, suggests that with the clean-out of long USD positions in March, they now expect fundamentals and US/Asia policy divergence to reassert, pushing USD/Asia higher...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 14:04
The Japanese Yen extends its gains vs. its American counterpart on Thursday, with USD/JPY currently navigating around the 112.30/20 area. USD/JPY attention to US calendar, Fedspeak Spot is retreating for the third consecutive session so far, finding decent support in the 112...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 14:03 #usd/jpy
Gold Takes Out Hourly 200-MA Hurdle USD selling helped Gold take out hourly 200-MA hurdle at $1232.45 levels ahead of the US weekly jobless claims release and Fed speak...
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Roberto Jacobs, 31 March 2016, 13:57 #gold
Technical Analysis of NZD/USD for March 31, 2016 Overview: The NZD/USD pair faced resistance at the level of 0.7000, while minor resistance is seen at 0.6964. Support is found at the levels of 0.6899 and 0.6847. Pivot point has already been set at the level of 0.6899...
Technical Analysis of USD/CHF for March 31, 2016 Overview: The USD/CHF pair didn't make any significant movements yesterday. There are no changes in our technical outlook. The bias remains bearish in the nearest term. It will test 0.9592 or lower. Immediate support is seen around 0...
GBP/JPY Trade Idea Major support- 161.30 Major resistance – 162.60 The pair has retreated after making a high of 162.57 yesterday. It is currently trading around 160.99. Short term trend is weak as long as 162.60 holds...
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Roberto Jacobs, 31 March 2016, 13:39
Jane Foley, Research Analyst at Rabobank, suggests that in tandem with the paring back of long USD positions over the past year, extraordinarily short EUR positions have been covered...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:29
GBP/USD Peeps Above 1.44 Handle GBP/USD printed a session high of 1.4420 as Euro’s move to fresh 5-month high is keeping USD under pressure across the board. Weak data ignored In light of a bullish move in the EUR/USD, sterling traders are ignoring a weak data released today...
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Roberto Jacobs, 31 March 2016, 13:28
EUR/USD in Fresh 2016 Highs, 1.14 on Sight The single currency is extending its march north today, now lifting EUR/USD to print fresh YTD tops around 1.1380. EUR/USD boosted by USD weakness, EMU’s CPI The pair keeps the firm footing into the second half of the week, trading closer to the 1...
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Roberto Jacobs, 31 March 2016, 13:25
Gold May Drop Below $1,200 in Coming Months - GFMS GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters noted in their latest report published on Thursday, gold prices are expected to drop below $ 1200 – psychological barrier in near term amid Fed rate hikes and softening physical demand...
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Roberto Jacobs, 31 March 2016, 13:21 #gold
Research Team at BBH, notes that the Eurozone reported revisions for March CPI. “Headline inflation improved to -0.1% y/y from -0.2%, while core picked up to 1.0% y/y from 0.8% (consensus 0.9%). After Germany’s upside surprise yesterday (0.3% y/y vs. 0...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:21
The selling pressure is not giving up around the greenback today, now sending USD/CHF to the lower end of the range near 0.9620. USD/CHF weaker on USD-selling Spot is retreating since Monday after being rejected from recent peaks just below the 0...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:19
EUR/GBP has been in a strong uptrend since breaking out above the 0.7490 range highs in January. Recently, on March 24, it made a new 14-month high of 0.7945. Since then it has slid back down to its current trading level at 0.7905 in a hint that the strong uptrend is troubled...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:16
#CAD continued to rise against #USD, despite the negative trend in #oil prices. Thus, #USDCAD has updated the five-month low. Market participants are now at a certain crossroads, it is recommended to stay out of the market until we will receive new signals. Discover more at http://bit...
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Vistabrokers CIF Ltd, 31 March 2016, 13:14 #Trading
Elwin de Groot, Eurozone Strategist at Rabobank, notes that the PBOC allowed the CNY to fix much stronger again today, reversing previous fixes weaker, and apparently a response to the Fed's "we won't raise if you don't devalue" message...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:13
The dollar continued its decline against major competitors in #FOREX. We should note that in terms of technical analysis #EURUSD has achieved the five-month high. It is recommended to buy on a breakthrough of the above indicated resistance line at 1.1377...
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Vistabrokers CIF Ltd, 31 March 2016, 13:12 #Trading
Research Team at Deutsche Bank, notes that the Fed’s Evans yesterday mentioned that he expects the US economy to be strong enough to justify raising rates twice this year...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:11
Reuters quoting sources familiar to the matter, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to slash its inflation outlook for the next two fiscal years at a quarterly review meeting next month...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:10
Elwin de Groot, Eurozone Strategist at Rabobank, suggests that the UK steel industry is on the brink of collapse, it appears, due to the flood of oversupply from China. “As such, politics may well crack before the markets do...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 31 March 2016, 13:08