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Guide to Today's Important Data and Events Few economic dockets scheduled for today, focus is on NFP report from U.S. Upcoming – China – China may announce Forex reserve today. UK – Halifax house prices report may get announced today...

FxWirePro: Nikkei225 Faces Strong Support at 15800, Good to Sell on Rallies Major intraday resistance - 16300 Major support - 15800 Nikkei index slightly retreated after making a high of 16260 at the time of writing.It is currently trading around 16022...

Australian Bonds Rally ahead of U.S. Employment Data The Australian government bonds rallied Friday for four consecutive days as investors were cautious ahead of U.S. employment data. Also, tumbling crude oil prices drove investors towards safe-haven assets...

US: NFP Expected to Rise by 200K in Apr - Westpac Sean Callow, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that the consensus for US Apr non-farm payrolls is 200k, after 215k in Mar and 245k in Feb...

FxWirePro: AUD/USD Breaks Below 0.7450 (38.2% Fib), Bears Tightening Their Grip Post RBA SoMP Release AUD/USD drops from 0.7470 region to break below 38.2% Fib of Jan to April rise at 0.7450...

FxWirePro: Aussie falls After RBA's Monetary Policy Statement AUD/NZD is trading around 1.0796 marks. Pair made intraday high at 1.0858 and low at 1.0781 marks. Today RBA released monetary policy statements...

Looking at a Weaker USD, Higher EUR/USD - BTMU Analysts at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi explained that a weak start to the calendar year for the US economy, the third in a row, prompted heightened recession concerns which reinforced US dollar weakness as well in the near-term...

DAX Consolidates Near Lows European stocks were buoyed on oil's advance, although a holiday in Germany kept action around the DAX limited. The index ended the day 23 points higher at 9.851...

Nikkei Futures Point to a Lower Opening - FXStreet The Japanese Nikkei will reopen this Friday after a three-day holiday, having had its latest official close at 16,147.38...

Oil Settles Higher as Canadian Fire, Libya Conflict Limit Supply Crude oil prices rallied at the beginning of the day, with WTI futures posting a daily high of $46...

USD/CAD: Targeting 1.35 in Next Few Months - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank noted that Yesterday’s weak Canadian trade report provided the exclamation point to our assertion on Tuesday that the good Canadian news was largely priced in to the CAD around the 1.25 area...

NZD/USD Heavy, Set to Test 50-DMA as Oil Deepens Losses NZD/USD’s recovery from NY lows faltered just shy of 0.69 handle, and the prices came under renewed selling pressure as Oil resumed decline and triggered fresh risk-aversion wave across the financial markets...

Goldman Sachs Hiked Iron Ore Price Forecasts In its latest report published on Friday, Goldman Sachs upwardly revised their iron-ore price outlook for 2016. Key Points: For Q2 2016, iron-ore price forecast raised by 47% to $55 / metric ton Q3 2016 forecast up 20% to $45...

Gold Rebounds in Asia, but Stays Below 5-DMA - NFP Eyed The yellow metal caught a fresh bid-wave in the Asian session, staging a recovery from four back-to-back sessions of losses ahead of the highly influential US jobs data. Gold flirts with $ 1280 barrier Currently, gold jumps +0...

FxWirePro: USD/KRW Stable Around 1168, Intraday Bias Remains Neutral USD/KRW is currently trading around 1168 levels. Intraday bias remains neutral till the time pair holds key resistance at 1168 levels...

EURUSD Daily Forecast: May 06 2016 EURUSD Forecast The EURUSD had a bearish momentum yesterday bottomed at 1.1385. The shooting star formation I showed you on Wednesday gave us a valid signal of a bearish pullback. The bias is bearish in nearest term testing 1.1275 region...

GBPUSD Daily Forecast: May 06 2016 GBPUSD Forecast The GBPUSD was indecisive yesterday but overall still able to maintain its bearish bias since the false breakout above the daily EMA 200 as you can see on my daily chart below. The bias is bearish in nearest term testing 1.4400 – 1.4350 region...

USDJPY Daily Forecast: May 06 2016 USDJPY Forecast The USDJPY was indecisive yesterday but overall still able to maintain its bullish intraday bias. The bias is bullish in nearest term testing 107.60...