As we expected, US crude oil futures prices jumped at the beginning of this week’s trading within the positive outlook, touching the official target of the previous technical report at 93.60, recording the highest level at 93.74. Technically, the stochastic has started to provide negative crossover signals, and this comes …
Read More »Gold needs price catalysts to resume the rise 8/11/2022
Gold prices did not show strong movements during the last session’s trading after the big gains it achieved last Friday, reaching the level of $1681 per ounce. Technically, we find gold retesting the previously breached resistance and turning it to a support level around 1666, which is still stable above …
Read More »Euro continues its gradual rise against the dollar 8/11/2022
The euro traded with noticeable positivity against the US dollar in the opening of the first trading sessions of this week within the bullish context, as we expected during the previous analysis, touching the second target at the price of 1.0030, recording its highest level at 1.0034. Technically, and looking …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session 07/11/2022
The US dollar began the trading week, on Monday, with an attempt to recover the gains lost before Friday’s closing bell. Instead, the dollar ended with losing further ground against its major rival currencies.The dollar accelerated its decline late in the US session as Wall Street picked up momentum ahead …
Read More »Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion in Bitcoin Seized
Almost one year after a billion-dollar seizure of dark web’s crypto, the same agency discovered another massive treasure hidden under a different hacker’s floorings. Dark web drugs market that is broadly known as the Silk Road was designed to be a mysterious underworld economy that avoided all governmental control. On …
Read More »ECB’s Lagarde: Inflation too high, rates to rise further
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde repeated that the cycle of interest-rate hikes has to ensure that inflation returns to the 2% target over the medium term.Meanwhile, the EUR/USD pair is on the up and traders have been of the mind that the US economy is slowing enough to allow …
Read More »Gold benefits from US dollar’s slide ahead of CPI data
Gold prices steadied on Monday near a three-week peak hit in the previous session, buoyed by a weaker dollar, while investors looked forward to U.S. inflation data later this week that could influence the size of Federal Reserve rate-hike.At the time of writing, the precious metal is trading at $1676.25. …
Read More »ECB’s Kazaks: There is no pivot
The European Central Bank’s Martins Kazaks said ”there is no pivot, we still say that inflation is a problem, and we will keep raising rates.”Kazaks has recently said that the ECB must raise interest rates much further, but that it is impossible to say how far because economic uncertainty is …
Read More »WTI rallies as US dollar impacted by risk-on
American crude oil rallies and trades at $92.24, benefiting from the US dollar which is losing ground. WTI prices resumed the upward trend that started on Friday as the US crude oil bounced up from levels right above $90 on the early trade, to reach levels past $93 for the …
Read More »Republicans’ victory historically meant good news for US stocks
This week will witness markets focusing on Tuesday’s US mid-term elections on. Economists at Société Générale expect equities to go up if the Republicans win control of both the Senate and the House.Victory for the Republicans GOP could have negative ramifications for the Euro. The US midterms could have an …
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