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UK Retail Sales Bounces Back - TDS Research Team at TDS, notes that the UK retail sales in April bounced back 1.3% m/m off an upward-revised March decline of -0.5% m/m (was -1.3%), confirming their upside bias...
Fed Minutes Highlight a Committee that Want to Raise Rates – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, notes that the Fed minutes last night highlight a committee that continues to want to raise rates whenever they can push it through...
Market Was Caught Off Guard by Hawkish FOMC Minutes - TDS Cristian Maggio, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at TD Securities, suggests that the market was caught off guard by hawkish minutes from the 27 April FOMC meeting and is all of a sudden reassessing its views on US monetary policy...
Sharp Recovery Lifts USD/CHF Back Close to 0.9900 Level In the last one hour, the USD/CHF pair witnessed a sharp recovery from session's low and has now moved within striking distance of 0.9900 level...
EUR/JPY: Sell-Off Extends Towards 123 ahead of ECB Minutes The EUR/JPY cross is currently experiencing some fresh selling, as the downward pressure intensifies on both the EUR/USD pair as well as on USD/JPY. EUR/JPY eyes 123 The EUR/JPY pair now drops -0.36% to fresh daily lows of 123...
Add short AUD/USD - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the CFTC data, in terms of outright positioning, show (falling) net shorts in GBP, EUR and MXN, promising the hope of resilience, and longs in JPY, CAD, AUD and NZD, which makes that set look more vulnerabl...
USD/JPY Dips Lelow 110.00 Level The USD/JPY pair failed to built on to its early Asian session up-move to 110.38 and has now dropped back below 110.00 handle to currently trade near session low at 109.90...
Dollar Rally Stalls, But Bid Remains Market Drivers May 19, 2016 AU Labor data in line UK Retail Sales Strong beat Nikkei -0.01% Dax -1.59...
FTSE Sinks Despite Surge in Retail Sales The stronger US dollar appears to be the key theme in play as hawkish Fed minutes handed the US dollar direction back to the bulls...