The Federal Reserve should wait for more evidence that U.S. inflation is progressing back toward 2 percent before raising interest rates again, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said on Tuesday...
A British vote to leave the EU risks causing severe economic and political damage to Europe that will spill over into an already febrile world economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned...
Valeria Bednarik, chief analyst at FXStreet noted that the American dollar retained the weak tone against most of its major rivals during the Asian session, with most pairs confined to tight ranges in response to a light economic calendar ever since the week started...
The decline in the Canadian Dollar (loonie) during 2014-15, as a result of the falling price of oil, has been excessive, argues a leading foreign exchange analyst and strategist. There is a high correlation between the price of oil and the value of the Canadian Dollar...
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Selling GBP/USD into trend line resistance near 1.4360 is supported by the lack of momentum shown by RSI, notes Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "However, if resistance starts to break, the trend would also be breaking above the weekly linear resistant trend line...
EUR/USD has consolidated within the past week just under a major resistance zone around the 1.1450-1.1500 area. In the process, the currency pair has formed a key bullish flag pattern that could be poised for a breakout if the dollar continues its recent weakening trend...
There are three highlights to the foreign exchange market today. First, the yen is marginally softer. The yen's strength this month has been the main development...
The BoC is widely expected to hold the overnight rate target unchanged at 0.5% on Wednesday. A recent string of positive data releases, including a strong employment report last week, has taken pressure off the BoC to ease further...
We expect the continued low inflation in the euro area to eventually trigger additional easing from the ECB, but we do not expect the ECB to address this by rate cuts...
Gold Stuck Between Hawkish Fed Speak and Dismal IMF Report Gold looks trapped between hawkish comments from Fed officials and bearish global growth forecasts published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF...
USD/CAD Aims to Further Weakness – Scotiabank FX Strategist at Scotiabank Eric Theoret sees USD/CAD could slip towards lower levels in the near term. Key Quotes “Signals are broadly bearish and all eyes are on the October 2015 low at 1.2832”...
USD/CHF: Near the Level of 0.9565 Last week, the pair USD/CHF has broken out strong resistance level of 0.9565, which is crossed by moving average lines ЕМА200, ЕМА144 and bottom limit of the descending channel on the weekly chart...
GBP/USD: The Pair is Unlikely to Exceed the Level of 1.4300 On the daily chart the rise in the pair GBP/USD is prevented by two strong resistance levels of 1.4300 (ЕМА50), 1.4385 (Fibonacci 38.2% to the decline from the level of 1.5230 since mid-December 2015...
The commodity currencies continue to gradually gain ground against the USD this week, notes BNP Paribas. "This comes against a backdrop of stable equity markets but a rebound of several key commodity prices," BNPP adds...
Both EUR and GBP remained fairly resilient against the USD and the apparent driver seems to be investors’ growing belief that neither the ECB nor the BoE are likely to announce aggressive easing anytime soon...
USD/JPY: Testing the Limits of FX Intervention - UBS UBS analyst team pointed out that their bullish USD/JPY view is being challenged by strong negative momentum after the USD/JPY broke below the key support level of 110 last week...
US Dollar Retakes 94.00 and Beyond The greenback, gauged by the US Dollar Index, has recovered the smile today, bouncing off multi-month lows and advancing above the 94.00 mark. US Dollar attention to Fedspeak USD-bulls seem to be buying the recent dip towards the vicinity of 93...