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FxWirePro: AUD/CAD Hovers Around 61.8% Fib, RBA to Influence Near Term Direction AUD/CAD is consolidating last Thursday’s drop, the pair is hovering around 61.8% Fib retrace of the Sept-Dec rally at 0...

Technical Analysis of USD/CHF for May 02, 2016 USD/CHF is expected to trade in a lower range. The pair is heading downward within its intraday declining channel in place since April 27, 2016...

Technical Analysis of NZD/USD for May 02, 2016 NZD/USD is expected to post further advance. The pair remains on the upside within a bullish channel, and it is more likely to challenge its nearest resistance at 0.7025 in the coming trading hours. The horizontal support at 0...

Technical Analysis of GBP/JPY for May 02, 2016 GBP/JPY is expected to trade with bearish bias. The pair still remains under pressure below its key resistance at 157.15. Meanwhile the relative strength index lacks strong upward momentum. As long as 157...

NZD/JPY Breaks But Hangs on Major Support at 74.143, more Bearish Scope Upto 72.883 The pair rallied upto 74.699 after testing supports at 74.143 levels. But during later stage of last week prices have dropped below DMAs after testing stiff resistance at 76...

FxWirePro: EUR/GBP Holds Above Daily Cloud After Gap up Open, Good to Go Long With a Target 0.7925 EUR/GBP has broken range trade along trendline support. Price action has edged above the daily cloud. The pair opened with a gap-up after surging past 0...

Silver Trades Well Above Major Resistance, Targets $18.45/$19 Major resistance- $17.75 (May 15th 2015) Silver has broken major resistance at $17.75 and jumped till $17.94 from that level. It is currently trading around $17.80. Short term trend is bullish as long as support $17...

USD/JPY: Solid Support from Buying on Dips – Deutsche Bank Taisuke Tanaka, Strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that there is a solid support for USD/JPY from buying on dips and only slight upside constraint is from the hedging...

Japan Warned by US Against Currency Devaluation - Rabobank Michael Every, Head of Financial Markets Research at Rabobank, notes that the US Treasury’s semi-annual currency report to Congress has just named Japan (along with Taiwan, South Korea, China, and Germany) as countries it is publicly warn...

JPY: Japan is Back in a Mess - SocGen Research Team at Societe Generale, notes that it’s the softness of the Japanese data which stands out. Key Quotes “Global growth is back close to trend (better in China’s...

USD/CHF Upside Capped by 0.9787/0.9834 So Far – Commerzbank According to Senior Technical Analyst at Commerzbank Axel Rudolph, further gains in spot could face a strong hurdle in the 0.9787/0.9834 band. Key Quotes “USD/CHF slipped below the April 19 low at...

JPY Strength Likely to Continue – Danske Bank Chief Analyst at Danske Bank Jakob Christensen sees the Japanese currency gathering further traction in the next periods. Key Quotes “The broad USD weakened further following the FOMC decision mid-last week...

GBP/USD Clinches Highs Near 1.4630 The sterling is now decoupling from the rest of the risk-associated assets on Monday, lifting GBP/USD to daily highs in the 1.4630 area...

Technical Analysis of Silver for May 02, 2016 Technical outlook and chart setups: Silver is seen to be consolidating between $17.70 and $17.90 levels today, after hitting fresh highs at $17.95 levels last week...

Technical Analysis of Gold for May 02, 2016 Technical outlook and chart setups: Gold is seen to be trading above $1,293.00 levels at this moment, consolidating its recent rally. As depicted here, the yellow metal should be heading towards $1,307.00/10...

Technical Analysis of EUR/JPY for May 02, 2016 Technical outlook and chart setups: The EUR/JPY pair is seen to be trading higher at 122.24 levels, after hitting lows at 121.45/50 levels last week. The drop from 126.40 levels looks to be an impulse (5 waves). A rally above 123...

EUR/USD Futures OI Increased by a Whopping 21K Last Friday Preliminary data from the CME Group shows that futures traders added new business aggressively in the 6E contract (EUR/USD) last Friday, as the Euro broke through a key area of resistance at 1...

Technical Analysis of GBP/CHF for May 02, 2016 Technical outlook and chart setups: The GBP/CHF pair dropped to 1.3917 levels today in early hours trade before pulling back sharply. The pair is trading above 1.4000 levels at the moment, looking to rally towards higher levels...

AUD/USD Retakes 0.7600, Focus on RBA The Aussie dollar is posting moderate gains early in the European morning, pushing AUD/USD once again above the 0.7600 handle. AUD/USD looks to the RBA The pair has recovered some ground after testing recent lows in the mid-0...

EUR/USD Erases Early Gains, Holds Above 1.1450 Ahead of Euro-Zone PMI The EUR/USD pair pared early Asian session gains and moved back to morning opening level of 1.1465 as investors wait to see the final print of Euro-zone PMI figures for the month of April...