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Brent: The Trice of Oil Went Up Last Week Fundamental news of last week triggered correction in oil prices. Last Friday the prices continue to rise after the release of the data from Baker Hughes, which showed that the number of operating drilling rigs in the USA has dropped by 8 units to 354...
Analytical Review of the Currency Pair USD/CAD Technical data of the currency pair: Previous closing: 1.2979; Daily range: 1.2971-1.3014; Opening: 1.2986; 52- week range: 1.1916-1.4692; Annual revenue: +3.49%; Change in % for the previous day: -1.26...
USD/CAD to End 2016 at 1.30 - Lloyds Analysts from Lloyds Bank, expect the USD/CAD to rise toward 1.35, but then as crude oil recovers is forecast to end the year at 1.30. Key Quotes: “Similar to other commodity currencies, USD/CAD has been rangebound recently – trading between 1.28 and 1.33...
BoC Reliant on Weakness in CAD - ING Viraj Patel, FX Strategist at ING explained, in respect of the Bank of Canada (BoC) coming up this week, with the policy rate likely to remain on hold, front-loaded CAD weakness is even more crucial for a central bank deeply reliant on export-led growth...
A Rise in Protection Against Yen Strength - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank explained that the JPY is soft following a short-lived break to a fresh cycle high driven by stronger than expected machine orders data...
GBP/JPY Trade Idea Major resistance – 154.80 (3 W EMA) Minor support -153.25 The pair has jumped till 154.22 on Friday and declined from that level. It is currently trading around 153.34. Short term trend is slightly weak as long as resistance 154.80 holds. Any break above 154...
US Stock Futures Rise, Investors Eye Alcoa Earnings US stock futures are trading on a positive note today as risk appetite strengthened in Europe, while investors await Alcoa results. At the time of writing, Dow futures were trading 64 points or 0.37% higher...
WTI Off Highs, Returns to $40.00 The barrel of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) keeps its daily gains today, albeit it has retraced the earlier spike to levels above the $40.00 mark. WTI looks to regain the $40.00 handle Crude oil prices have bounced off last week’s lows in the $35...