Search Results for: currency market
Australian GDP Pickup Suggests RBA Transition Working
June 4th, 2014
Australia’s economy grew at the fastest pace in two years as surging exports and home building showed record-low borrowing costs are sustaining a 22-year expansion even as mining investment slows. First-quarter gross domestic product advanced 1.1 percent from the ...
Fed may shun global risk rules banks spent billions to meet
June 4th, 2014
The Federal Reserve may scrap international measures aimed at assessing bank health in favor of imposing its own rules, frustrating bankers who have spent billions of dollars retooling their books to meet global standards. Fed officials are concerned that ...
Euro Inflation Slowing More Than Forecast Pressures ECB
June 3rd, 2014
Euro-area inflation slowed more than economists forecast in May, cranking up pressure on the European Central Bank to deploy measures as soon as this week to kindle prices and drive growth. The rate fell to 0.5 percent from 0.7 ...
Gold nears worst week since March as stocks climb, demand falls
May 30th, 2014
Gold steady above $1,250/oz, heads for 3 pct weekly loss * Improved appetite for risk pushes stock markets higher * Premiums fall in India; demand soft across Asia-traders (Updates throughout, changes dateline, pvs SINGAPORE) Gold steadied on Friday ...
USD/JPY needs to rebound from 101.60 to stay bullish
May 30th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The currency pair remains unable to break the five-month down-trend resistance line, something that would most likely entail a robust recovery of the U.S. Dollar in the long term. But at the same time USD/JPY is underpinned ...
GBP/USD violates 15-month up-trend
May 29th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Even though the support at 1.6782/76 was deemed to be strong and most of the technical indicators were bullish, the Pound took a major hit yesterday. The currency plummeted through the monthly PP, 55-day SMA and, even ...
EUR/USD tests monthly S2
May 29th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The selling pressure is likely to somewhat subside, considering that the currency pair is approaching a potentially tough support at 1.3582, consisting of the monthly S2 and weekly S1. Nevertheless, EUR/USD is expected to preserve the bearish ...
Dear Investors: China’s Problems Are Your Problems
May 27th, 2014
I have long argued that it will take a sizable shock to switch the current “risk on” investment climate to one of “risk off.” The robust U.S. stock market persists even though the housing recovery has stagnated, labor markets ...
EUR/USD postpones decline
May 27th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook EUR/USD recovered some of the losses yesterday, but the market is nevertheless considered to be bearish. The reason is that the key resistances, such as the down-trend at 1.39, stay intact, but some of the most important ...
USD/CHF Daily Chart
May 26th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook As it turned out, the 200-day SMA was not able to keep the bulls at bay for long and eventually gave in. Now, being well-supported at 0.8946/42, USD/CHF is supposed to move further north. If this is ...
