The Federal Reserve held its benchmark lending rate steady Wednesday. Newly released economic projections indicated there would be two interest-rate increases this year, compared with four projected increases when officials met in December. Here’s what economists had to say...
EURUSD Daily Forecast: March 17 2016 EURUSD Forecast The EURUSD had a strong bullish momentum yesterday after a rejection to make a clear break below 1.1065 support area as you can see on my H1 chart below. The bias is bullish in nearest term testing the trend line resistance and 1.1300 region...
GBPUSD Daily Forecast: March 17 2016 GBPUSD Forecast The GBPUSD attempted to push lower yesterday bottomed at 1.4052 but whipsawed to the upside and closed higher at 1.4255. As long as stays below 1.4300 the bearish phase should remain valid but this fact could be seen as a false break below 1...
USDJPY Daily Forecast: March 17 2016 USDJPY Forecast The USDJPY attempted to push higher yesterday topped at 113.81 but whipsawed to the downside and closed lower at 112.53. The bias remains neutral in nearest term and the best strategy for me remains to buy around 112.50 or sell around 114...
USDCHF Daily Forecast: March 17 2016 USDCHF Forecast The USDCHF had a bearish momentum yesterday bottomed at 0.9750. The bias is bearish in nearest term testing 0.9700 before targeting 0.9600 region. Immediate resistance is seen around 0.9820...
GOLD: With GOLD rallying on Wednesday, we expect more upside pressure in the days ahead. to hold on to its downside pressure, further decline is envisaged. On the downside, support comes in at the 1,220.00 level where a break will turn attention to the 1,210.00 level...
The euro is now expected to weaken to parity with USD, and its all because of those banks again.. US investment bank Morgan Stanley have taken an island stance remote from other major banks in calling parity for the EUR/USD by the end of 2016...
The pound to dollar exchange rate (GBPUSD) has bounced by an eye-opening 0.8% in the wake of the US Federal Reserve’s March policy meeting. At the time of writing GBP/USD is at 1.4271 ensuring much of this week’s weakness is reversed...
On balance, the Fed’s communication was more dovish than expected, with a weaker tone on growth, but hints of a bit more concern on inflation...
As expected the Fed held rates unchanged, but in a dovish twist is now predicting only two rate hikes in 2016 vs four back in December according to the median of the dot plots...
As we head into yet another important FOMC statement, I wanted to bring up a currency pair that is somewhat sheltered from any Fed-induced volatility. I have mentioned AUDNZD several times since November of last year...
Analysts at J P Morgan see the AUD/USD trough lows holding, and the tentative up-trend advancing, although upside progress will probably be slow...
March FOMC: a press conference with Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen - Thurs 3/16 - 2:30 PM ET The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States of America...
Rate hikes are coming, but the Fed is now closer to seeing eye to eye with markets in terms of how many, and how soon...
The house view at Goldman had traditionally been that the Dollar is a weak currency. That changed in April 2014, when we became Dollar bulls, estimating that the coming monetary policy normalization in the US could drive the Dollar around 15 percent stronger...
Talk of the U.S falling into a recession has been growing, we look at the primary reasons stoking these fears. usdollar close Despite stocks near to revisiting all-time highs and an unemployment rate that is back down below 5...
The Fed’s first rate hike relied on the theoretical link between strong employment and accelerating inflation, but now that prices seem to actually be heating up, policymakers can point to early signs of actual progress on the inflation front...
Even if the markets do not consider it likely a rise in interest rates this month, the FOMC is still divided. The committee's vice-chairman, Stanley Fischer, would be in favor of a rise of 0.25%, while the Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard appeals to prudence...
