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AUD/USD Attempting Gains Above 0.76 after Stevens Speech The Aussie dollar remains on front foot, with the AUD/USD pair now attempting gains above 0.76 after RBA’s Stevens refused to comment on AUD...

Tactical GBP Trading into the Referendum - Nomura Nomura is entering short GBP/USD at 1.40 via digi puts with expiry prior to the referendum date as uncertainty around the vote continues to keep the Sterling under pressure...

FXWIREPRO: Malaysian Ringgit Continues to Add Strength Against US Dollar, Intraday Bias Remains Bearish Pair is currently trading around 4.0200. It made intraday high at 4.0610 and low at 4.0220 levels. Intraday bias remains bearish till the time pair holds key resistance at 4.0933...

FXWIREPRO: NZD/USD Largely Rangebound, Further Bullishness Only on Break Above 0.6870 NZD/USD has been trading in a narrow range after seeing rejection at 0.6874 (strong trendline resistance) on March 18th. Upside on the day seen capped by 5-DMA at 0...

Japan Jan All Industry Activity Climbs More Than Forecast Japan's all industry activity increased at a faster-than-expected pace in January, after falling in the previous two months, figures from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry showed Tuesday. The all industry activity index rose 2...

NZ Dollar Advances Most Against Majors The New Zealand dollar strengthened against most major currencies in the Asian session on Tuesday. The NZ dollar rose to a 4-day high of 75.93 against the yen, from yesterday's closing value of 75.64. Against the U.S...

RBA's Stevens: More Room to Ease Policy than Most RBA's Glenn Stevens, speaking at the ASIC Annual Forum in Sydney, said there's more room to ease policy than most should a serious downturn occur...

Renewed Euro Weakness Ahead - Westpac Sean Callow, FX Strategist at Westpac, expects renewed weakness in the shared currency, which should allow EUR/AUD for a target of 1.45...

OPEC Sees Moderate Oil Bounce Even If Iran Won't Join Freeze OPEC expects oil prices to rebound to a “moderate” level even if Iran doesn’t join other producers in an agreement to freeze production...

ECB, BOJ Seeking to Push Down Exchange Rates, Mervyn King Says The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are essentially trying to push down the values of their respective currencies with the use of negative interest rates, former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said...

Dollar Drops Versus Yen Amid Skepticism of April U.S. Rate Hike The dollar halted a two-day advance against the yen as comments by Federal Reserve officials suggesting the central bank may raise interest rates as soon as next month failed to boost the greenback’s appeal. The U.S...

Asian Shares Edge Lower as Fed Rate Talk Revives Asian stocks slipped on Tuesday as hawkish comments from U.S. Federal Reserve officials clouded the monetary policy outlook less than a week after Fed Chair Janet Yellen had set out a more cautious path to interest rate increases this year...

Japan Manufacturing Sector Contracts Unexpectedly In March Japan's manufacturing activity deteriorated for the first time in eleven months in March, the latest flash survey from Markit Economics showed Tuesday. The Markit/ Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, fell to 49...

Australian Dollar Rises Against Majors The Australian dollar strengthened against the other major currencies in the Asian session on Tuesday. The Australian dollar rose to a 4-day high of 85.10 against the yen, from yesterday's closing value of 84.82. Against the U.S...

Nikkei Rises Sharply as Dollar Gains on Hopes for Fed Rate Hike TOKYO, March 22 Japan's Nikkei share average rose sharply on Tuesday as the dollar extended its rebound against the yen after two U.S. Federal Reserve officials supported the case for an interest rate hike sooner than later...

Analytical Review of the Stocks of Merck&Co. Inc. Merck&Co. Inc., #MRK [NYSE] Health care, drug production, USA Financial performance of the company: Index – DJIA, S&P 500...

Taiwan Jobless Rate Rises As Expected In February Taiwan's unemployment rate increased for the fourth straight month in February, in line with expectations, figures from the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics, or DGBAS, showed Tuesday...

FXWIREPRO: Nikkei225 Faces Strong Resistance Around 17300, Good to Buy at Dips Major resistance - 17300 The index has broken minor resistance around 17000 and jumped till 17097 at the time of writing slightly recovered after making a low of 17014. It is currently trading around 16664...

South Korean Won Continues to Gain Against US Dollar, Intraday Bias Remains Bearish USD/KRW is currently trading around 1160 levels. It made intraday high at 1164 and low at 1159 levels. Intraday bias remains bearish till the time pair holds key resistance at 1169 levels...

Moody's: Credit Quality of Korean Non-Financial Corporates Stable in 2016 Moody's says the credit quality of non-financial corporates in Korea (Aa2 stable) will be stable in 2016, but that weak macroeconomic conditions will increase challenges for some sectors...