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Gold Retreats From 3-Week Highs on Profit-Taking Gold failed to sustain at multi-week peaks and retraced a part of overnight gains in the mid-Asian trades, as a profit-taking spree hit the markets ahead of the Chinese data due tomorrow. Gold corrects lower in Asia Currently, gold trades -0...
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 06:24 #gold
JPY: Further Weakness in Inflation Forecasts – Nomura Yujiro Goto, Research Analyst at Nomura, suggests that the private forecasters continue to lower their Japanese inflation forecasts, according to the JCER survey (28 March to 4 April...
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 06:21
USD Longs Fall Sharply, Now the Market is Almost Flat – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, notes that the IMM data has confirmed that investors sharply reduced their long dollar exposure, taking implied USD longs as a fraction of open interest to 4% from 8% in the previous week...
Currency
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 06:19
AUD: BS Shows Significant Improvement in Business Conditions and Confidence - NAB Research Team at NAB, notes that the Australia’s NAB Business Survey revealed a significant improvement in both business conditions and confidence, suggesting the domestic business environment not only remains favou...
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 06:17
AUD/JPY Firmer, Pierces Through 82.50 Resistance The AUD/JPY cross remains strongly bid in the Asian trades, mainly driven by renewed strength in the AUD/USD pair after OZ business conditions hit 2008 highs last month. AUD/JPY at four-day high The AUD/JPY pair now jumps +0.70% to 82...
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 06:15
EUR/USD Better Bid Above 1.1400, Awaits Fresh Impetus The EUR/USD pair extends its overnight consolidative phase into mid-Asia, after having failed near 2016 highs in the last NY session, as bulls await fresh incentives in the day ahead for further upside...
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 06:13
AUD/USD Testing Monday’s High on Aus Data, Above 0.7600 AUD/USD extends gains beyond 0.76 handle post-China open, with the upbeat Australian confidence gauge adding to the favourable market sentiment in Asia. AUD/USD rises for 3rd straight session Currently, the AUD/USD pair rises 0...
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Roberto Jacobs, 12 April 2016, 05:17
Deutsche Bank has an interesting argument for why the Federal Reserve may not be able to raise interest rates at all this year...
Market News
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Francis Dogbe, 12 April 2016, 05:11 #Fed
For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala...
Other
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Francis Dogbe, 12 April 2016, 05:07
Europe's economic malaise has a lot to do with its crippled banking system. Making that system more fragile seems like the wrong way to address the issue...
Market News
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Francis Dogbe, 12 April 2016, 00:33
The yen's surge may be easing. It made a new marginal high in Asia, but has not been able to sustain it Technically, a hammer candlestick pattern may be traced out by the greenback's recovery today. Supporting the greenback is the movement in interest rate differentials...
Analytics & Forecasts
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Francis Dogbe, 12 April 2016, 00:29
Many analysts had anticipated that a dramatic drop in oil prices such as we’ve seen since the summer of 2014 could provide a big stimulus to the economy of a net oil importer like the United States. That doesn’t seem to be what we’ve observed in the data...
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Francis Dogbe, 12 April 2016, 00:26
SPX500: Bull Flag Ahead of US Earnings Kick-Off Talking Points: S&P 500 Technical Strategy: Flat. Conditional long + short setups identified. US stock prices remain well-supported while European and Japanese equities are putting in more divergent reads...
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Mohammed Abdulwadud Soubra, 11 April 2016, 23:48
The Canadian dollar held a firm tone versus the greenback Monday, ahead of this week's Bank of Canada meeting, where policy is expected to remain unchanged, but growth projections may be revised higher...
Analytics & Forecasts
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 11 April 2016, 23:10 #forex
S&P 500: tactical rally from February at risk: We highlighted 2044-2022 as key nearby S&P 500 support for April...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 11 April 2016, 23:07 #S&P 500
Currency investors should consider selling NZD/CAD this week, advises CitiFX in its weekly FX pick to clients. "Short NZDCAD represent expectations on oil, a more optimistic BOC, and our greater caution on the valuation of NZD currently...
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Vasilii Apostolidi, 11 April 2016, 22:53 #forex
The following are the latest technical setups for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF, AUD/USD, NZD/USD, and USD/CAD as provided by the technical strategy team at Barclays Capital. EUR/USD: Our decision to turn bearish is being frustrated by the lack of downside follow through...
Gold Reaches 3-Week High Spot gold surged to a fresh 3-week high of $1,258.66 an ounce on Monday, fueled by a weaker dollar and decreasing expectations of a US rate hike as the Fed remains dovish. Gold for June delivery settled roughly 1.0% higher and trades around 1,256...
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Roberto Jacobs, 11 April 2016, 21:52 #gold
Analytical Review of the Stocks of Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson, #JNJ [NYSE] Healthcare, production of drugs, USA Financial performance of the company: Index – DJIA, S&P 500; Beta – 0.63...
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Roberto Jacobs, 11 April 2016, 21:49
XAG/USD: The USD is Declining Against Safe-Haven Currencies Amid the decline in the USD against gold and the Yen last week was caused by uncertainty in the economic and financial situation in the world, the price of silver went up as well...
Currency
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Roberto Jacobs, 11 April 2016, 21:43