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Oil in Global Economy Series: What Fundamentals at Play in Oil Market Currently? North American benchmark WTI, has risen 85% or more from its February low and up around 28%, so far this year...

USD/CAD Knocks 1.3100 Handle, Now Eyeing to Test 1.3150 Building on to its recovery momentum above 1.3000 psychological mark, the USD/CAD pair tapped 1.3100 handle on Thursday for the first time since April 8...

JPY: Abe Expected to Unveil a Larger Liscal Program - BBH Research Team at BBH, notes that at the last G20 meeting, Japan may have been questioned about its unexpected rate cut at the end of January...

USD Now Shifted the Focus to June – Westpac In opinion of Richard Franulovich, Strategist at Westpac, the greenback will take centre stage in the run up to the Fed meeting in June...

Dollar Consolidates after Yesterday's Big Gains - BBH Research Team at BBH, notes that the FOMC minutes came in on the hawkish side and the statement that “most” Fed officials saw a June hike as “likely” if warranted by the economy did the trick...

UK Retail Sales Bounces Back - TDS Research Team at TDS, notes that the UK retail sales in April bounced back 1.3% m/m off an upward-revised March decline of -0.5% m/m (was -1.3%), confirming their upside bias...

Fed Minutes Highlight a Committee that Want to Raise Rates – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, notes that the Fed minutes last night highlight a committee that continues to want to raise rates whenever they can push it through...

Market Was Caught Off Guard by Hawkish FOMC Minutes - TDS Cristian Maggio, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at TD Securities, suggests that the market was caught off guard by hawkish minutes from the 27 April FOMC meeting and is all of a sudden reassessing its views on US monetary policy...

Sharp Recovery Lifts USD/CHF Back Close to 0.9900 Level In the last one hour, the USD/CHF pair witnessed a sharp recovery from session's low and has now moved within striking distance of 0.9900 level...

EUR/JPY: Sell-Off Extends Towards 123 ahead of ECB Minutes The EUR/JPY cross is currently experiencing some fresh selling, as the downward pressure intensifies on both the EUR/USD pair as well as on USD/JPY. EUR/JPY eyes 123 The EUR/JPY pair now drops -0.36% to fresh daily lows of 123...

Add short AUD/USD - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the CFTC data, in terms of outright positioning, show (falling) net shorts in GBP, EUR and MXN, promising the hope of resilience, and longs in JPY, CAD, AUD and NZD, which makes that set look more vulnerabl...

USD/JPY Dips Lelow 110.00 Level The USD/JPY pair failed to built on to its early Asian session up-move to 110.38 and has now dropped back below 110.00 handle to currently trade near session low at 109.90...

Dollar Rally Stalls, But Bid Remains Market Drivers May 19, 2016 AU Labor data in line UK Retail Sales Strong beat Nikkei -0.01% Dax -1.59...

FTSE Sinks Despite Surge in Retail Sales The stronger US dollar appears to be the key theme in play as hawkish Fed minutes handed the US dollar direction back to the bulls...

Hawkish Fed Sends Stocks Lower The FTSE 100 is trading sharply lower this morning after last night’s FOMC minutes showed a notable hawkish shift amongst the voting members, bringing the possibility of a US rate hike in June back to the table...

GBPUSD Strong Upside Intact Fears of Brexit have diminished at least for the time being as latest polls suggest that pro EU option leads by 10 % (55 % vs 45...

EUR/USD Now Eyes 1.1140/45 – UOB The research team at UOB Group expects EUR/USD to grind lower to the 1.1140 area. Key Quotes “The 1.1215 target that first highlighted earlier this week was exceeded with a low of 1.1200/05”...

GBP/USD Off Highs, Back Near 1.4640 After climbing as high as the vicinity of 1.4660 in early trade, GBP/USD has now surrendered some gains and is now hovering over the 1.4630/40 band...

European Bonds Slide on FED Rate Hike Outlook The European bonds slumped Thursday as investors cooled on safe-haven assets after FOMC April meeting minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s strengthened bets of an interest rate hike in June...

GBP/USD Forecast: Bullish on Self-Strength The Pound keeps rallying this Thursday, underpinned by surprisingly better-than-expected retail sales data. According to official readings, Retail Sales surged by 1.3% last April, against expectations of a 0.5% advance. Yearly basis, it surged to 4...