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Yen Down on Two Main Counts - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank ranked the Yen as an under performer. Key Quotes: "The JPY is the main under-performer on the day on better risk appetite (US equity futures) and PM Abe’s suggestion that his “three arrows” policy has corrected the strong JPY...
EUR/USD Trims Gains, Hovering Around 1.1200 EUR/USD moved off session highs during the last hours, as the US dollar recovered part of the lost ground across the board. Greenback dropped sharply earlier after US personal income and spending report...
US Oil Exports in Decline - BBH Analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman recall that the US lifted its ban on oil exports in December, but explained it appears, however, that US oil exports have fallen rather than risen here at the start of 2016...
GBP/USD Has Limited Upside Scope GBP/USD has no clear catalyst driving the price higher, except that there has been technical space to do so following last week's sharp sell off from the 1...
USD/JPY Hunting Down Feb Highs on 115.0 Handle USD/JPY bulls have fought back in a strong rally, away from the March 17 multi-year low. We are now in positive territory, trading in the upper end of its range from mid-February...
Efficiency Stands in Way of Natural Gas Price Recovery This year natural gas price has dropped well below $2/mmbtu, observed during 2012 trough and still sliding further. Today price is down another -2.2%, trading at $1.77/mmbtu. Price has dropped to lowest levels since 1999...
Technical Analysis of CAD/CHF for March 28, 2016 CAD/CHF broke below the 200 Moving average and it is currently trading lower suggesting that the trend is down. Applying two Fibonacci channels, it is obvious that price broke below the 161...
Technical Analysis of GBP/CAD for March 28, 2016 After forming a double bottom near the 1.8500 support level, GBP/CAD started rising and formed a strong resistance near 1.8660. The resistance did not hold for a long time and was broken together with the 261...
Analysis of EUR/NZD for March 28, 2016 Recently, EUR/NZD has been moving sideways around the 1.6660 mark. On the daily chart, the price is still trading in the defined trading range between the 1.6475 level (support) and the 1.6865 level (resistance...
Worrisome Signs Series: World Trade Suffers Further Setback in 2016 According to data from CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, global trade suffered further setback in January, to start the year, posing doubts, whether global economy can actually recover, without key component, tr...