Sherif Hasan / Blog
GBPUSD GBPUSD is trading higher in front of the Brexit vote. This move up is close to completing a five wave structure from blue wave B lows. For now we still expect a minor pullback in red wave 4) and a push up in red wave 5 to around 1.4840 area...
Results of the latest poll from TNS Omnibus The news poll shows 16% undecided or say they won't vote. The poll asked 2320 adults and was conducted June 16-22. The prior TSN poll was June 13 and showed leave at 47% to 40% for remain. Before that was 43-41% for leave on May 23...
Credit Agricole on potential moves in USD and GBP The greenback's short-term outlook will be driven by global risk sentiment rather than monetary policy expectations. This is especially true as the USD was in demand for most of the last few weeks on the back of rising safe haven demand...
Later in today’s New York session we will see the release of Canadian Retail Sales data for the month of April, as well as comments from Fed Chair Yellen who will be testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, and the weekly release of Crude Oil Inventories...
EU's head of Greek mission Costello speaking in Athens 22 June 2016 IMF mission chief Velculescu also on the rostrum: Greek fiscal targets too ambitious NPL reforms not ambitious enough Greece needs substantial debt relief...
Switzerland ZEW survey expectations now published 22 June 2016 current conditions 6.2 vs 0.0 prev The Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Economic Expectations Index rates the relative six-month economic outlook for Switzerland...
Russian president speaking in lower house of parliament 22 June 2016 Russia must boost its combat readiness at a time when NATO is expanding and moving its infrastructure towards Russia's borders "NATO is strengthening its aggressive rhetoric and its aggressive actions near our borders...
With the Brexit referendum result looming which currencies may move the most against the pound? 22 June 2016. There's been lots of justifiable/considered talk recently, as well as hype, about the impact of the result impacting on the pound in serious fashion...
The UK Post Office is reporting a surge to sell the pound 22 June post office branch and online currency sales up 49% yy on Tuesday and up 381% online +74% yy since last week-end It's cash and therefore not so significant volume-wise but it's also a sentiment indicator toward Leave, or at least e...
Fedspeak, existing home sales and Eurozone consumer confidence on the schedule Canadian consumers have shrugged of the commodity bust so far and that's expected to be the case once again in April with retail sales expected to rise 0.8% (+0.7% ex-autos...