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Profit-taking. (Yann Quelenn) • EUR/USD bullish pressures are still on despite ongoing consolidation. The pair has reached 1.1910 (02/08/2017 high). Hourly support can be...
That was not a surprise yesterday, the BoE held rates unchanged at 0.25% and the asset purchase target will be kept at £435 billion. 10 billion of corporate bonds will also be purchased but this does not change from what was previously decided...
Yesterday I argued that the dollar may have reached a bottom and that further weakness is not justified...
Early this afternoon, the BoE will announce its key rate that should remain unchanged at 0.25%. Markets estimate that rates should only increase by early 2018. For the time being, the British Central Bank is largely enjoying a weak pound in the wake of the Brexit vote...
This is no news that the US dollar has had a tough year so far but the question is whether further USD weakness is sustainable. On a trade weighted basis, the greenback fell more than 8.5% since the beginning of the year...
Today we get US labor ADP data ahead of the NFP report on Friday. Bloomberg Survey indicates new jobs creation for July of 190k compared to the prior June read of 158k. The overall sentiment is positive and it has been 7 years that the data print positive...
The New Zealand extended losses on Wednesday amid the release of disappointing data from the job market. After grinding lower yesterday, NZD/USD fell another 0.55% to 0.7425, its lowest level of the past five days. Despite the fact that the second-quarter unemployment rate matched estimate of 4...
Tomorrow morning, the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate is set to remain on hold at 1.5% despite the Aussie is on a bullish trend since mid-May. The Aussie can be traded at almost $0.80. It is worth noting that the Australian currency has gained more than 11% this year...
The Swiss National Bank reported a profit of CHF 1.2 billion for the first half of 2017, compared to CHF 7.9 billion for the first quarter. The sharp appreciation of the Swiss franc against most of its peers, mostly the US dollar, ate up the profits from shares and bonds investments...