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The Euro took a step back last week as global equity markets rallied, and despite the proximity of the European Central Bank’s April policy meeting, the move was likely unrelated...

NZD/USD has been a volatile display at the start of Asia this week. We have had both the Doha story creating turmoil across the board and just recently, the keenly awaited CPI was released from New Zealand, beating expectations and sending the bird back to close the bearish opening gap...

It is never easy, but the week ahead may be particularly difficult for market participants. It will first have to respond to weekend developments...

EUR/USD failed in its attempts to break higher and eventually dropped. The ECB decision is the main event in a busy week. What’s next for the world’s most popular currency pair? Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an updated technical analysis for EUR/USD...

All is calm. All is still. Share prices are going up. Oil prices are rising. China has stabilised. The eurozone is over the worst. After a panicky start to 2016, investors have decided that things aren’t so bad after all...

The US dollar turned in a mixed performance last week, which given the softer than expected inflation, retail sales data, and industrial output figures, coupled with the poor technical backdrop, could be a signal that its decline in recent months has run its course...

Greece's creditors are considering seeking extra austerity measures that would be triggered if Athens misses its fiscal targets, in a bid to bridge differences between Europe and the International Monetary Fund and break a deadlock threatening to unravel the Greek bailout...

Speculators were undeterred by the threat of BOJ intervention. In the CFTC reporting period ending April 12, speculators boosted their net and gross long yen positions to new record highs. The bulls added 2k contracts to their gross long position to give them 100.1k yen futures contracts...

The US dollar managed to make a comeback of sorts, mostly against the euro. The Doha Oil Summit, the ECB´s rate decision and housing figures in the US stand out. These are the highlights of this week. Here is an outlook on these main events. U.S...

This weeks analysis points to some major opportunities straight ahead across all the markets I have been looking at in the Elliott wave weekly picture. We saw some nice action in these markets which followed our analysis to a tee...

The UK economy appears to have lost some steam at the start of 2016, as the country is slowly approaching the June 23 EU referendum. The plebiscite is viewed as one of the most significant post-war political events in the UK, and a considerable risk to short-term economic stability...

One interesting feature of the past few days has been the strength in commodity currencies. The Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar and the Canadian dollar have been some of the best performers of the past weeks, in the absence of any significant action in major pairs...

There can be disadvantages to being the world’s most liquid currency. The Dollar’s intrinsic integration into the global financial system makes it particularly vulnerable when its fundamental health is shaken and the world is in a state of flux. That is where we find ourselves now...

hares of Citigroup Inc. (C) rose as much as 6.18% Wednesday, reaching a 4-month high of $44.49 after investors learned that Citigroup was the only one of the large major banks that didn't have its so-called "living will" rejected by the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...

Shares of Bank of America Corporation (BAC), the second-biggest U.S. lender by assets, are trading more than 1% lower than the pre-market session Thursday, after the bank reported a 13% year-over-year decline in the first-quarter profits, owing to weak trading and underwriting revenue...

This is what it looks like on the down side of the biggest oil boom in U.S. history. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc...

Oil prices fell more than 3 percent on Friday in thin trade as traders and analysts anticipated a meeting of major oil exporters would provide a floor for the market, but do little to help to clear global oversupply quickly...

Next week could be a big one for the EUR/GBP due to the large number of market-moving economic data from both the UK and the Eurozone, and the ECB’s policy meeting on Thursday...

fter falling out of the limelight the past few trading sessions, the focus will turn again on the euro as the European Central Bank meets on Thursday and important sentiment surveys are due on Tuesday and Friday...

Not all traders are equal. According to Emolument.com data, having a certain type of job title could command greater earning power through wages and bonuses. But that's not to say that the lowest paid trader job earns peanuts — they still earn more in one year than some people do in a decade...