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Russian Ruble Slides To Weekly Low Against U.S. Dollar The Russian Ruble drifted lower against the U.S. dollar in European trading on Thursday, as oil prices declined on Fed rate hike fears and as official data showed large build in crude oil inventories last week...
U.K. Retailers Expect Sales Volume To Improve: CBI British retailers expect retail sales volume to accelerate next month, the latest Distributive Trades Survey from the Confederation of British Industry showed Thursday...
Pound Off Lows Against Majors The pound trimmed its early losses against the other major currencies in Europe on Thursday. The pound recovered to 0.7899 against the euro and 1.3784 against the franc, from its early 15-month low of 0.7946 and a 2-month low of 1.3720, respectively...
Europe Roundup: Dollar Weighs on Commodities and Shares As fED Tightening Risk Rises, Sterling Index on Course for Worst Market Roundup Trump's tariff plan could boomerang, spark trade wars with China, Mexico. Japan may resurrect Abenomics with big stimulus package in spring – Barron’s...
USD/JPY Trims Gains as Weak Data Overshadows Hawkish Bullard Disappointing durable goods released the US made sure USD/JPY trimmed gains despite NY Fed’s Bullard view of a possibility of an early rate hike. Rejected at 113.00 Stop clocked a high of 113.00 earlier today before backing off to 112...
EUR/USD Keeps the Red Post-US Data The European currency keeps the negative note vs. its American peer on Thursday, taking EUR/USD to the 1.1160/65 band for the time being. EUR/USD muted on US releases Spot kept the composure after US Durable Goods Orders have contracted less than expected 2...
US Durable Goods Orders Report Shows Broad Based Slowdown in February The Commerce Department data released today show corporate spending as represented by durable goods orders dipped in February, indicating the manufacturing sector may not have bottomed out as thought after upbeat January figure...
US Durable Goods Orders Preview: What to Expect of EUR/USD? Dollar maintained its bid tone in Europe, keeping the EUR/USD pair moderately lower in the range of 1.1150-1.1170. At one point, risk-off in Europe did come to the rescue for EUR, but failed to push it into the positive territory...
Technical Analysis of NZD/USD for March 24, 2016 Overview: The NZD/USD pair opened below the daily support of 0.6724. It continued to move downwards from the level of 0.6724 to the bottom around 0.6670. Today, the first resistance level is seen at 0.6724 followed by 0...