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EUR/USD has consolidated within the past week just under a major resistance zone around the 1.1450-1.1500 area. In the process, the currency pair has formed a key bullish flag pattern that could be poised for a breakout if the dollar continues its recent weakening trend...

There are three highlights to the foreign exchange market today. First, the yen is marginally softer. The yen's strength this month has been the main development...

Negative interest rates, which central banks in several countries have implemented as a way to spur economic growth, is a radical move. In the last of a three-part series, ‘Negative Thinking,’ commentator Satyajit Das examines this policy and its risks...

The yen hit a 17-month high against the dollar on Monday in the currency market's latest warning sign to equity investors. The strength of the Japanese yen this year has been a bit of a surprise for many investors...

Italy's financial industry has approved a government-backed plan to set up a rescue fund to help weaker banks. The Atlante fund will be made up by private money, reportedly worth €5bn ($5.7bn; £4bn), and will buy up shares and bad debt in struggling banks...

With another quiet one in terms of economic data released, we stay focused on the impact of the impending weekend meetings between Oil producing nations in Doha. With Oil sitting just above the important, psychological $40 per barrel level, it’s still the 200 SMA that is capping price...

The U.S. dollar index fell 9 out of the last 11 trading sessions, already down 4.8% this year and back to the level seen last October. The dollar has weakened against all its major trading partners from the Japanese yen to the Canadian dollar...

Worries over whether Great Britain will leave the European Union are showing up in unlikely pockets of the financial markets. One of them is the difference between the London Interbank Offered Rate and the overnight indexed swap rate in the U.K...

Deutsche Bank has an interesting argument for why the Federal Reserve may not be able to raise interest rates at all this year...

For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala...

Europe's economic malaise has a lot to do with its crippled banking system. Making that system more fragile seems like the wrong way to address the issue...

The yen's surge may be easing. It made a new marginal high in Asia, but has not been able to sustain it Technically, a hammer candlestick pattern may be traced out by the greenback's recovery today. Supporting the greenback is the movement in interest rate differentials...

Divergences are one of my favorite trading concepts because they offer very reliable high-quality trading signals...

JP Morgan Chase, a major stakeholder in the London Stock Exchange (LSE)-traded UK forex broker Plus500 (LON:PLUS) announced it has reduced its share in it by almost two thirds – from 8.99% to 3.05% by selling 6 829 806 of its shares...

Hedge funds betting that oil’s rally was over missed an 11 percent gain after U.S. crude inventories unexpectedly fell. Short positions in West Texas Intermediate crude jumped 35 percent in the week ended April 5, according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

Mark Carney could face a challenge in just over two months, regardless of whether Britons choose to stay in or quit the European Union...

Last week saw a bit of a change in market dynamics and I have also noticed it in the way how setups presented themselves in my own trading. A look at CNN’s fear and greed index confirms that – the last few weeks have been dominated by extreme greed and markets were in complete risk-on mode...