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US NFP Preview: We Expect Another Soft Report - Wells Fargo Analysts from Wells Fargo, expect a soft May employment report (Friday) but they explain that the unemployment rate can continue to decline even in the face of more modest job gains...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 16:51
EUR/USD Bid Above 1.1140 The European currency remains firm on Monday, sending EUR/USD nearly 50 pips higher since overnight troughs in the 1.1100 region...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 16:47
Yellen’s Comments Boost USD Market Brief In the wake of another batch of disappointing economic data from the US, Janet Yellen said on Friday that an interest rate hike should be appropriate in the coming months but did not give further details about the timing...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 16:39
Fed Hike Hype Growing, USD Gains Forex News and Events Yellens comments support hike but watch data This will be a big week for enforcing expectations for a Fed summer rate hike, even providing granularity of either June or July...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 16:15 #Fed
Forex Technical Analysis: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, USD/RUB, XAU/USD (Gold) Analysis for May 30th, 2016 EURUSD, “Euro vs US Dollar” Eurodollar has reached the target of the first Fibonacci retracement expansion; the structure looks like the first wave of another downtrend...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 16:06 #USDRUB, usdchf
NZD/USD Holding Recovery Gains to 0.6700 but Remains Vulnerable Extending its recovery from a two-month low level of 0.6675 touched earlier during Asian session, the NZD/USD pair continues to hold its neck above 0.6700 handle...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:57 #nzdusd
EUR/USD Remains Under Pressure – Scotiabank Shaun Osborne, Chief FX Strategist at Scotiabank, sees the pair still vulnerable in light of the upcoming ECB meeting and against the backdrop of a potential rate hike by the Fed...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:49
USD/CAD Holding Gains to 1.3065 on After Canadian Data The USD/CAD pair was unmoved above the mid-point of 1.3000-1.3100 handle despite of weaker-than-expected economic data from Canada...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:46
US Dollar Keeps Gains Near 95.70 The greenback, tracked by the US Dollar Index, has lost its earlier upside momentum and has returned to the 95.70 area. US Dollar capped around 96.00 After a brief test of fresh multi-week tops in the vicinity of the 96...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:41
EUR/USD Watch for Counter Trend Confluence The EUR/USD is patiently waiting for major economic data coming in this week. We have some real high impact info this week and we could see riskoff sentiment possibly coming back. We need to watch out for upcoming releases: 1...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:38
EUR/USD: Dollar Eases Modestly in Thin Trading EUR/USD Current Price: 1.1138 The American dollar gave back the ground gained at the beginning of the day, and the EUR/USD pair recovered from a fresh 2-month low of 1.1097, helped by positive data coming from Europe...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:34
EUR Perspective Remains Poor – BBH Analysts at BBH have assessed the recent performance of the single currency. Key Quotes “Since the break of $1.12, we have been looking for $1.1070...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:26
AUD/USD Bearish Below 0.7145/50 – UOB According to the research team at UOB Group, further pullbacks lie ahead for the Aussie dollar on a close below the 0.7145/50 band. Key Quotes “The 'rebound target' indicated at 0.7260 last Friday was not met as AUD dropped quickly after hitting a high of 0...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:24
Oil Steady Around $49.30, Focus on This Week’s OPEC Meeting WTI crude oil futures managed to recover from session low of $49.05 to currently trade near $49.30 amid dull trading session on the first trading day of a fresh trading week that is full of market moving events...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:21
FxWirePro: CHF/JPY Faces Strong Resistance at 112.35, Good to Sell on Rallies Major Resistance- 112.35 (trend line joining 117.41 and 115.01) The pair has made a high of 112.12 and slightly declined from that level. It is currently trading around 111.91...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:18
FxWirePro: Deploy GBP/USD Option Strips Bidding 1M Rr - a Run Through of Various Scenarios of Strikes For demonstration we consider the GBPUSD ATM instruments while formulating option strips strategy...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:15
GBP/JPY Trade Idea Major resistance- 162.80 (100 EMA) Major support -159.93 (10 day EMA) GBP/JPY has broken major resistance 162.80 and slightly retreated from that level. It is currently trading around 162.27. The pair is facing major resistance around 162...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:11
Gold Under Biggest and Longest Daily Decline in More Than Three Decades Gold has been declining and declining hard. The yellow metal, which had one of its best starts to a year in 2016, has declined for 9 consecutive days, including today. In past nine sessions, it has declined 5...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:05 #gold
The Forex Week Ahead: May 29th – 2nd June Mon: EUR – German CPI, JPY – Unemployment Rate Tue: EUR – German Unemployment rate, EuroZone CPI, USD – PCE, Consumer Confidence, CAD – GDP Wed: CNY – Manufacturing & Non-Manufacturing PMIs, AUD – GDP, CHF – GDP, EUR – EuroZone Manufacturing PMI, GBP...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:02
EUR/USD: Levels, Ranges, Targets Not only is a supposed June hike possible but the June raise timing if it materializes coincides to July 1 changes at the ECB. Current Fed/Eonia spreads run 0.72 bps while a possible Fed hike would raise spreads to 0.85 bps...
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Roberto Jacobs, 30 May 2016, 15:00