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Stronger Dollar is Out of the Question for Now - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the term ‘Currency Wars’ was used by Brazil’s erstwhile Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, in September 2010 in response to moves by some (Asian) countries to resist upward pressu...
EUR/USD Forecasts: Focus on Risk Trends – UOB and Danske Bank EUR/USD has started the week on a weak note, coming down from recent tops above the 1.1300 handle to the current 1.1265/60 band...
Dovish Central Banks Support Global Financial Markets – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that the world’s major economies have held central bank meetings during March and across the central banks there has been a convergence in sending a common message that it is appropriate to...
EUR/GBP in Highs Above 0.7800 The now softer tone around the sterling is allowing EUR/GBP to clinch session highs in the 0.7810/15 band. EUR/GBP attention to risk trends The cross is looking to recover part of last week’s drop to the mid-0...
Fed: Back to Old Habits? - ANZ Research Team at ANZ, suggests that with the benefit of a couple more days and the fact that markets have settled somewhat, it is little easier now to reflect on the Fed’s decision and surprise dovishness last week...
Gold drops below hourly 100-MA Gold prices failed to sustain above 10-DMA and fell below hourly 100-MA level of 1247.84 levels despite drop in the US treasury yields. Drops to $1240 Prices printed a session low of $1240/Oz in early Europe and now continue to trade around $1242 levels...
GBP/USD: Sell-off to Gather Pace at London Open? GBP/USD is now trading with moderate losses with traders fearing an early wobble in London following Duncan Smith’s resignation over the weekend. Politics back in focus Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation is a big loss to Cameron...
US: Existing Home Sales and Fed’s Locker Speech in Focus - TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that the US economic calendar is quite thin...
EUR/USD Stays Below Key Fibo Level, Awaits German BUBA Report The EUR/USD founds bids around 1.1250 in early Asia, but lacks momentum to test/take out 1.1293 (23.6% of May 2014 high-Mar 2015 low). The currency pair trimmed gains from 1.1285 to trade around 1.1270 levels. Strong support around 1...