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The annual Sino-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue session in Washington kicked off this week, but ended abruptly on the same day, with cancellation of the traditional press conference, no joint statement and no new announcement of a bilateral trade deal...

It’s monetary policy time! After the ECB’s meeting on 20 July, next week will see the FOMC convening on Tuesday/Wednesday – a meeting without a scheduled press conference, which reduces the chance for a significant policy change...

As was widely expected the Bank of Indonesia held its key 7day repo rate at 4.75%. Yet the overall effect and tone was slightly dovish. The decision was based on the central banks effort to keep a balanced approach between supporting recovering economic growth and maintaining financial vigilance...

Unsurprisingly the European central bank has held its rates steady yesterday at 0% for 17th consecutive month. The ECB meeting took place against a backdrop of strengthening of the single currency. The EURUSD pair has reached 1.16 for the first time in two years...

he BoJ monetary policy meeting today when as we had expected. The BoJ held policy mixed unchanged while downgrading inflation and upgrading growth forecasts. The softer inflation forecast should take away some of the bullish moment in the JPY...

There is a lot at stake today as the European Central Bank meets to revise its monetary policy. The single currency has been trading with a strong positive bias for several weeks as investors widely anticipate the end of ultra-accommodative monetary policy for the euro area. EUR/USD hit 1...

Since the 2008 crisis, unemployment rate is declining and the data that will be released today will approach 5%. The metric is expected to print lower at 5.1% versus 5.2% a month earlier. The jobless rate is then declining but the proportion of unemployed person having higher education is growing...

While other major central banks have shifted bias toward tighten we don’t anticipate that the BoJ will follow...

The greenback is getting weaker against major G10 currencies and the euro dollar is now back above 1.15 for the first time since May 2016. The bullish trend seems very deep to us and there are two main points to address...

Lacklustre economic data are piling up in US, the Fed has abandoned its hawkish rhetoric for a cautious one amid faltering inflation pressures. Since mid-May, the greenback has lost more than 5...

The US Federal Reserve wants to let inflation run and keep interest rates low. This, we believe, is for two reasons. First, letting inflation rise will allow erode the US Central Bank’s bond-bloated balance sheet in real terms...

Chinese equities tumbled on Monday with the tech focussed Shenzhen index falling 4.28% to 1,800.54, while the Shanghai Composite was off 1.43% to 3,176.46 points. Data showed the world’s second largest economy grew 6...

Ready for a short-term bullish consolidation. (By Yann Quelenn) • Bitcoin has strongly declined over the weekend. Strong hourly resistance can be found...

Pushing higher. (By Yann Quelenn) • Crude oil is trading higher. Hourly support is given at 43.65 (10/07/2017 low). Expected to monitor resistance given at 47.32 (04/07/2017...

Back within former downtrend channel. (By Yann Quelenn) • Silver is still bouncing from hourly support given at 15.18 (10/07/2017 low). Key resistance is given at a distance at 17.75 (06/06/2017 high...

Short-term bullish momentum arises. (By Yann Quelenn) • Gold's is trading mixed after the precious metal reached the $1200 level. Hourly support is now given at $1204 (10/07/2017 high). Hourly...

Buying pressures continues. (By Yann Quelenn) • EUR/CHF is still trading above psychological level at 1.1000. Selling pressures are very weak at the moment. Hourly support is located at a...

Weakening. (By Yann Quelenn) • EUR/GBP has broken uptrend channel. Hourly support is given at 0.8719 (16/06/2017 low). Expected to show further monitoring of support...

Buying pressures increase again. (By Yann Quelenn) • AUD/USD's technical structure is bullish since early May despite some consolidation move. An unlikely break of support at 0.7520 (09/06/2017...

Important selling pressures. (By Yann Quelenn) • USD/CAD is going lower but the pair remains in a strong bearish momentum. Hourly support is given at 1.2681 (12/07/2017 low). Resistance is...