Australian Dollar Falls Most Majors The Australian dollar weakened against most major currencies in the Asian session on Monday. The Australian dollar fell to a 6-day low of 84.22 against the yen, from Friday's closing value of 84.74. Against the euro and the U.S...
NZD: Settled into a Trading Range - BNZ Jason Wong, Currency Strategist at BNZ, notes that after a sharp fall earlier in the year, the NZD has settled into a trading range...
Yen Rises Against Majors The Japanese yen strengthened against the other major currencies in the Asian session on Monday. The yen rose to 125.43 against the euro and 160.65 against the pound, from last week's closing quotes of 125.65 and 161.47, respectively. Against the U.S...
NZD/USD: Three-Month Outlook - Westpac Imre Speizer, analyst at Westpac explained that the Federal Reserve downgraded its interest rate projections last week, hurting the US dollar and thus boosting NZD/USD and offered a three-month outlook. Key Quotes: "We expect NZD/USD to fall towards 0...
USD/JPY: Headed to 106.63 on Break of 111.00? USD/JPY has been a downside play in Tokyo below the half way point of the 111.0 handle and diverging away from the 20 1hr sma at 111.43 at the start of this week's session in Asia...
USD/CNY Fix Model: Projection at 6.4810 - Nomura Nomura's model projects the PBOC fix to be higher by 182 pips from the previous fix (6.4810 from 6.4628) and higher by 83 pips from the previous spot USD/CNY official close 6.4727...
USD, JPY Net Longs Fall, GBP Shorts Cut - Nomura As Nomura notes, according to the IMM data for the week ended March 15, non-commercial accounts sold USD to the tune of -$1.7bn, bringing positioning in USD to $9.5bn...
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GBP/JPY Recovers but Still Down for the Week The pound is recovering across the board for the second day in a row and versus the yen continues to move off 2-week lows that reached on Thursday. GBP/JPY climbed recently to 161.77, reaching the highest level since Tuesday...
Dollar Slides Versus Most Majors Ahead Of Consumer Sentiment Index The University of Michigan is scheduled to release its preliminary consumer sentiment index for March at 10 am ET Friday. Economists expect the index to rise to 92.2 from 91...
Canadian Dollar Extends Rally After Strong Retail Sales Data The Canadian dollar extended its early advance against the other major currencies in European deals on Friday, as Canadian retail sales accelerated at a faster pace in January...
USD/JPY Extends Gains Ahead of Fed Speak The US dollar stays on a front foot against Japanese Yen, pushing USD/JPY higher to 11.60 levels ahead of speeches from Fed’s Rosengren and Dudley...
EUR/USD Attempts a Tepid Bounce to 1.1300 The single currency is trimming earlier losses vs. the dollar, now pushing EUR/USD back to the area of 1.1290/1.1300 ahead of US data...
GBP/USD Attempting Break Above 1.45 GBP/USD turned positive and is now attempting to break above 1.45 handle after BOE’s quarterly bulletin informed markets about UK economy’s resilience to China slowdown...
EUR/USD Dips Below 1.13 on ECB Praet’s comments EUR/USD dipped to a session low of 1.1279 levels after ECB’s chief economist assured markets that the central bank has not run out of ammo and could cut rates further. Trades below key Fibo The spot trades below 1.1293, which is the 23...
Antipodean Currencies Gain Amid Rising Risk Appetite Antipodean currencies such as the Australian and the New Zealand dollars strengthened against their major counterparts in the Asian session on Friday amid rising risk appetite following positive cues from Wall Street overnight and higher crude...
FXWIREPRO: NZD/USD Breaks Strong Resistance at 0.6850, Good to Go Long on Close Above, Target 0.6925
FXWIREPRO: NZD/USD Breaks Strong Resistance at 0.6850, Good to Go Long on Close Above, Target 0.6925 Broad based weakness in US Dollar and rising commodities buoying the Kiwi. The pair has broken strong resistance at 0.6850 on the day, but has pared some gains to currently trade at 0.6836 levels...
AUD/USD Bulls Hunting Down R1 for 0.77 Handle AUD/USD is currently making an addition run towards the 0.77 handle now in Asia as the greenback takes another beating. AUD/USD's price takes the RSI (14) 1hr to 67 and heads to R1 0.7717. The Yuan fix was at 6.4628 vs 6...
GBP/JPY: Bullish Move Stalled Around Hourly 200-MA The bullish momentum in the GBP/JPY cross appears to have run out of steam around hourly 200-MA located at 161.27 levels as Cable is struggling to break above 1.45 handle. Bid above 23.6% Fibo The pair ran into bids after it recovered above 159...
