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Gold Reaches 3-Week High Spot gold surged to a fresh 3-week high of $1,258.66 an ounce on Monday, fueled by a weaker dollar and decreasing expectations of a US rate hike as the Fed remains dovish. Gold for June delivery settled roughly 1.0% higher and trades around 1,256...

Analytical Review of the Stocks of Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson, #JNJ [NYSE] Healthcare, production of drugs, USA Financial performance of the company: Index – DJIA, S&P 500; Beta – 0.63...

XAG/USD: The USD is Declining Against Safe-Haven Currencies Amid the decline in the USD against gold and the Yen last week was caused by uncertainty in the economic and financial situation in the world, the price of silver went up as well...

XAG/USD: Will the Rise Continue? Last week, the price of silver in the pair XAG/USD exceeded resistance level of 15.15 (ЕМА200 and ЕМА50 on the daily chart). Today, the price has consolidated above resistance level of 15.35 (ЕМА50 на недельном графике...

Brent: Fundamental Facts Caused the Rise in Oil Prices Technical analysis Fundamental factors of last week caused the rise in oil prices last week. Alternative scenario to proved to be correct. The price broke out resistance level of 41.10 and went further up 42.30 and 44...

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...

Weekly Review Major news of last week was the minutes of the US Fed meeting in March...

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...