Oil, Crude, trading
Read More »Oil is retesting resistance 9/1/2023
Trading tended to be positive and dominated the movements of the US crude oil futures contracts within the idea of retesting the resistance level of 75.40, as we mentioned last Friday, recording its highest level at $75.44 per barrel. Technically, the stochastic started to gradually lose bullish momentum in the …
Read More »Gold touches targets and extends its gains 9/1/2023
Gold prices achieved substantial gains, taking advantage of the USD decline within the positive outlook, as we expected during last week’s trading, touching the official target station at $1880 per ounce. Technically, and by looking at the 4-hour chart, we note the stability of the price above the 50-day simple …
Read More »Euro is breaching resistance, positivity remains 9/1/2023
EURUSD pair jumped to achieve strong gains at the end of the trading week last Friday after it managed to exit from the sideways track, as we indicated during all trading reports of the past week, explaining that the price’s consolidation above the resistance level of the psychological barrier 1.0600 …
Read More »Financial Markets’ Weekly Recap, January 2-5
Wall Street’s major indices closed higher on Friday, supported by reports that although jobs increased in the United States more than expected, wage increases slowed and services activity contracted, easing concerns about the path of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. The data published by Automatic Data Processing (ADP) …
Read More »What Could New House Speaker McCarthy Mean For Financial Markets?
Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican, is officially the new speaker of the US House after a hot Capitol Hill drama that continued for almost four days and 15 rounds of votes. If the House chaos for electing a new speaker had continued for weeks, the financial markets could have worried …
Read More »US Treasury yields retreat on wage growth data
Friday’s US economic data produced a cascading drop in rates across the Treasury market, pushing the policy-sensitive 2-year and benchmark 10-year yields to their lowest levels of the new year. The 2-year yield which moves in coordination with expectations around the path of Fed’s policy, fell 19.1 basis points to …
Read More »US stocks jump as NFP data eases rate policy worries
The nonfarm payrolls rose by 223,000 jobs in December according to the data announced by the US Labour Department while a 0.3% rise in average earnings was smaller than expected and lower than the previous month.The numbers for November were revised to show nonfarm payrolls rose by 256,000 and average …
Read More »Fed’s Bostic: US economy is definitely slowing
Atlanta Federal Reserve bank president Raphael Bostic said on Friday that how the economy evolves will shape what the Federal Reserve has to do, as reported by Reuters.The US dollar continues to weaken against its rivals following these comments and the US Dollar Index was last seen losing 0.9% on …
Read More »Gold prices soar, surpassing $1,860 following solid NFP data
Gold prices have extended its gains after the US Nonfarm Payrolls showed the US economy added more jobs than estimates while the rate of unemployed Americans edged lower. At the time of writing, XAU/USD trades volatile around $1,861 per ounce versus the previous closing price at 1832.49. The US Bureau …
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