Pound Spikes Up As BoE Leaves Interest Rate On Hold The pound strengthened against its key counterparts in European deals on Thursday, as the Bank of England policymakers unanimously decided to keep the interest rates unchanged, while observing that "it is more likely than not that" the key rate...
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Rebound From Five-Month Low Initial jobless claims in the U.S. rebounded by less than expected in the week ended March 12th, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday...
Indonesia Central Bank Slashes Key Rate For Third Time This Year Indonesia's central bank cut its interest rates for a third time this year and said there was more room for easing amid easing inflationary pressures and less global uncertainty...
Pound Mixed Ahead Of BoE Interest Rate Decision At 8.00 am ET Thursday, the Bank of England is set to announce its interest rate decision and minutes of the meeting. The bank is set to hold its key rate at a record low 0.50 percent and asset purchase programme at GBP 375 billion...
Crude Oil Steaming Toward $40 Crude oil prices continued to rise Thursday morning despite record U.S. inventories. Commercial crude oil inventories increased by 1.3 million barrels from the previous week, the EIA said. WTI crude oil for April was up 73 cents at $39...
Gold Jumps Near $1270 As Fed Turns Skittish Gold prices surged Thursday morning after yesterday's surprisingly dovish Federal Reserve statement. Nervous about the global economy, the Fed predicted two rate hikes in 2016 instead of four...
Swiss National Bank Retains Negative Interest Rates The Swiss National Bank retained its negative interest rate and repeated that it will be active in the foreign exchange market as the Swiss franc remains significantly overvalued...
Euro Rises As Eurozone Core Inflation Beats Forecasts The euro strengthened against most major rivals in the European session on Friday, as the Eurozone annual core inflation rose more than expected in February...
FOMC: Surprise Came in the Downward Adjustment of the Dot Plot - Rabobank Bas van Geffen, Quantitative Analyst at Rabobank, notes as widely expected the FOMC decided to leave rates on hold. Key Quotes “The surprise came in the magnitude of the downward adjustment of the dot plot...
GBP/USD Advances Above 1.4400 on BoE The buying interest remains solid around the British pound, with GBP/USD now flirting with session highs beyond 1.4400 the figure...
Fed: Pulls Back to Two Hikes as Dollar Drops - BBH Research Team at BBH, notes that the Federal Reserve halved the number of rate hikes it anticipates this year from four to two. Key Quotes “The market has been moving toward this as well after having thought they would be no hikes this year...
EUR/USD: Bullish Developments, Holds Firm at 1-Month High EUR/USD is consolidating gains around the 1.1220 vicinity, having jumped more than 1.5 cents from 1.1050/60 ahead of the FOMC decision, to print a 1-month high at 1...
Asian Markets Rally After FOMC, Gold Back Above $1250 All the Asian markets are trading on a higher note on Thursday after FOMC kept interest rate unchanged at 0.5% but cuts GDP forecast. Central bank cuts its estimate of GDP growth in 2016 to 2.2% from 2.4...
Us Oil Breaks Major Resistance Around $39, Targets $40.85 Major resistance -$39 Minor support - $38 US Oil has broken major resistance $39 and jumped till $39.35. It is currently trading around $39.11.Short term trend is bullish as long as support $36 holds...
Japan Has Y242.769 Billion Trade Surplus In February Japan posted a merchandise trade surplus of 242.769 billion yen in February, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday. That missed forecasts for a surplus of 235.0 billion yen following the 648.8 billion yen deficit in January...
AUD/NZD Back Above 1.12 Mark, Intraday Bias Remains Neutral Pair is currently trading around 1.1240 levels. Pair made intraday high at 1.1254 and low at 1.1160 marks. Pair remains volatile during the Asian session as both the countries have released key economic data...
AUD/USD: Finally Breaks 0.7600, So Where Next? AUD/USD is chipping away at the 0.76 handle with committed bulls determined to challenge the shorts on the back of the FOMC outcome today, despite the poor show in the jobs data...
AUD/JPY Soars on Australian Jobs, 86.00 in Sight AUD/JPY is building up its bullish momentum, first initiated on the back of a surprisingly dovish FOMC, to now have targeted the area 85...
AUD/USD Bulls Not Done Despite Jobs Miss AUD/USD has been a mixed show on the back of the jobs data and a big miss on the headline again. However, the bulls were not phased right away and bids came in that have been met by cautious offers given the dovish FOMC vibes lingering around markets...
