Oil, Crude, trading
Read More »Oil and selling pressure continues 24/4/2023
US crude oil futures prices continue to achieve losses, and oil starts with negative movements with the first trading of this week, and the current movements are witnessing stability around its lowest level during the morning trading of the current session at 78.80. Technically, prices are still operating within the …
Read More »Gold may complete the corrective decline 24/4/2023
Negative pressure continues to control gold prices within a bearish corrective tendency, after prices failed to maintain stability above the broken 1992 support, to start its first weekly trading by pressing 1972 support. Technically, and by looking at the 4-hour chart, we find that the simple moving averages continue to …
Read More »Euro is trying to break free from the sideways path 24/4/2023
Narrow sideways movements still dominate the performance of the EUR/USD pair, finding the movements confined from below the support level of 1.0945 and above the resistance level of the psychological barrier 1.1000. On the technical side today, and with a close look at the 4-hour chart, we find the simple …
Read More »Financial Markets’ Weekly Recap, April 17-21
Wall Street moved in an erratic manner, ending the trading week with minor losses. The major indices retreated from their monthly highs. The mid-May rally has encountered resistance. The stock market appeared to be heading nowhere on Friday due to a lack of conviction, a week’s worth of company financial …
Read More »Positive US PMI data drags Euro lower
During Friday’s early US session, the Euro is declining significantly versus its largest equivalent, the US dollar. Better-than-expected US S&P Global PMI figures have allayed fears of a recession and are helping to underpin the currency. As the banking crisis appears to be behind us once more, the war against …
Read More »US PMI reading pushes USD/JPY to fresh daily peak
Amid a new round of USD purchasing, the USD/JPY quickly recovers from the weekly low. The positive US PMIs support future Fed rate hike predictions and strengthen the US dollar. Spot prices are still on course to post moderate rises for a second straight week.During the early North American session, …
Read More »WTI partially reverses weekly decline, advances past $78.00
Prices for WTI have recovered from recent lows at $77,000. Crude oil lost four straight weeks of gains. On Friday, traders’ attitude was still negatively impacted by recession worries.Prices for WTI barrels manage to rekindle some buyer interest on Friday, moving beyond the $78.00 threshold.Following a significant rejection from post-OPEC+ …
Read More »US S&P Manufacturing PMI surges to 50.4 in April
S&P Global Composite PMI increased to 53.5 (flash) from 52.3 in March, indicating that the private sector of the US economy continued to grow at a brisk rate in April. This figure was higher than the 52.8 market forecast.In the same time, the S&P Global Manufacturing PMI increased to 50.4 …
Read More »Auto earnings sound recession alarm
Ford stock was down almost 4% on Thursday afternoon. Following Tesla’s results, and what Elon Musk had to say about them, concern accelerated about the state of the US economy, dragging down stocks across the auto industry.Tesla’s first-quarter gross profit margins, reported Wednesday evening, disappointed investors, coming in below 20%. …
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