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NZD/USD Struggles to Extend Beyond 0.6900 The NZD/USD pair is extending its struggle with 0.69 handle into late-Asian/ early European trades, as the auspicious China PMI reports failed to provide a lift to the sentiment around the bird. NZD/USD recovers from 0...
RBA on Hold; Unchanged Rhetoric on AUD – Westpac Bill Evans, Chief Economist at Westpac, suggests that the Australia’s Reserve Bank Board meets next week on April 5 and they expect that the Board will decide to hold rates steady...
USD: Evidence of FX Reserves Rebalancing – Nomura Research Team at Nomura, suggests that the FX reserves rebalancing may explain some of the weakness in USD...
EUR/USD Looking for a Retest of 1.1400 Amid Risk-Aversion The overnight corrective slide in EUR/USD found some support near 1.1365 region, with the prices now making fresh attempts to conquer 1.14 handle once again...
AUD: Flying too High? – Westpac Robert Rennie, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that after rising about 5% against the US dollar over the past month, the Aussie will surely be a hotter topic at the RBA Board’s meeting on Tuesday than it has been for quite some time...
CAD: Canadian Growth Surprises - Nomura Charles St-Arnaud, Research Analyst at Nomura, suggests that a recovery in the manufacturing sector and in most sectors has pushed the Canadian growth higher. Key Quotes “Monthly GDP increased by 0...
Oil Price Forecasts Raised for the 1st time in 10 months – Reuters poll The latest Reuters poll result showed that the economists and oil analysts raised the average oil price forecasts for 2016 for the first time in 10 months, although with a cautious tone...
Oil Eases in Asia, Brent Flirts with $ 40 Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic resumed their broader downtrend after a brief stint to the upside seen on Thursday, as a stronger US dollar weighed on the black gold...
AUD/USD Finds Fresh Bids at 0.7650, Re-takes 0.7700? The selling pressure behind the AUD gained further traction over the last hour, sending AUD/USD lower to the half-way point on 76 handle, before the bulls were rescued by China data...