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The campaign for Britain to leave the EU has been backed by 250 business leaders including the former chief executive of HSBC, the Vote Leave group said on Saturday, hoping to counter the view that UK businesses back staying in the bloc...
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 23:29
First, a few words about the forecast for the previous week: ■ if we talk about the forecast for EUR/USD, those 40% of the experts, who called for the pair falling, were right...
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Sergey Ershov, 26 March 2016, 16:58 #usd/jpy, GBP/USD, EUR/USD
Early in Thursday’s trade, USDCAD closed above the two-month trend line that extends off the January high. At the time, it was just an intraday break on the 4-hour chart. However, the pair later managed a session close above the key handle...
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 16:39
Risk assets such as stocks, corporate bonds and bank loans have been trading in a wide and volatile range, taking investors on a roller-coaster ride up and down, including most recently a rally of about 10 percent in U.S. equity markets...
Market News
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 16:25
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 16:22 #GDP
The dollar held steady against the other major currencies in subdued trade on Monday, off Friday’s five-month trough as the greenback continued to recover from the Federal ...read more...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 15:15
The dollar edged moderately higher against the other major currencies in quiet trade on Monday, as the greenback continued to recover from the Federal Reserve’s most recent ...read more...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 15:11
French private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in five months in March, easing concerns over the economic outlook of the euro zone’s second largest economy, preliminary ...read more...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 15:09
German business confidence turned around and rose higher in March, rebounding from a 14-month low in February, industry data showed on Tuesday. In a report, the German research ...read more...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 15:06
As we entered the New Year, it became obvious that the lack of further Central Bank support in December threatened the fragile recoveries that have been seen around the globe in the post-Financial Collapse environment............read more...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:53
Oil has stayed resilient during the past few weeks, despite occasional risk-off sentiment. Crude prices rose to their highest in three months in early March, at $42.49/barrel for WTI and $42.54/barrel for Brent...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:52
Gold embarked on an aggressive recovery in the first quarter of 2016, buoyed by a slump in Federal Reserve rate hike expectations...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:49
The diverging paths for monetary policy fosters a long-term bullish outlook forUSD/JPY, but the Federal Reserve’s and the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) wait-and-see approach may continue to drag on the exchange rate especially as Janet Yellen and Co. look to further delay their normalization cycle...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:47
Coming into Q1’16, our main theme for EUR/USD was that, because market participants would be wholly fixated on seeing what the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve would do in their March meetings, neutrality would prevail........read more...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:40
The US Dollar took a dangerous tumble through the first quarter, throwing into doubt the currency’s ambitions after more than four years of advance...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:37
A rebound in risk appetite, falter in the Dollar and push to extreme dovish monetary policy defined the close of the past quarter. What does the second quarter hold for the benchmarks of the FX, capi...Continue Reading...
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Seth Dompreh, 26 March 2016, 12:35
On the face of it, the latest government update on how the U.S. economy performed in the fourth quarter looked a bit more encouraging. Growth was revised to a 1...
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 08:38
I see so many traders fail unnecessarily. It hurts so much seeing them sabotage themselves over and over and over again and they don’t even notice it. One of the main reasons traders keep themselves from success is my favorite psychological concept called ‘cognitive dissonance...
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 08:34
With just four days packed with economic data and the European Central Bank set to begin its expanded debt purchases, German government bonds look to extend their advance next week...
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 08:29 #ECB
1 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs The highlight of the week is the Labor Department’s March jobs report, due out Friday. Hiring remained robust through the turn of the year, with nonfarm payrolls growth averaging 228,000 over the past three months. The unemployment rate has hovered at 4.9% since January...
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Francis Dogbe, 26 March 2016, 04:07