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Read More »Gold Give up Against US Dollar, Eyes on Employment Numbers
Gold prices incurred heavy losses during the previous trading session within the expected bearish path mentioned in daily analysis, touching the third official leg 1800, recording the lowest price of 1785. On the technical side today, and with a closer look at the 240-minute chart, we find the 50-day simple …
Read More »Euro Touching Targets of Downside Correction
The euro declined significantly against the US dollar, continuing the downward correction as we expected during the previous analysis, touching the official target to be achieved at 1.1970, to record its lowest level during the Asian session for the current session at 1.1952. Technically speaking, and with the pair’s failure …
Read More »US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Decline to 779K
There were 779,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the US during the week ending January 30, the data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This reading followed the previous print of 812,000 (revised from 847,000) and came in better than the market expectation of …
Read More »BoE: Banks Will Need Six Months to Prepare For Negative Rates
The Bank of England said UK banks will need at least six months to prepare for the switch to negative interest rates. This was after the bank fixed interest rates at 0.1%. The Bank of England asked British banks in October about their preparedness for negative interest rates, after it …
Read More »IMF Introduces a New Approach to Assessing Debt Sustainability
The International Monetary Fund has said it is launching a new approach to assessing debt sustainability for countries that are able to access financial markets with the goal of predicting the risks of financial crises more accurately and improving transparency. Fund officials said that it is expected to activate an …
Read More »BoE Leaves Policy Rate And QE Unchanged
The Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to leave the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.10% at its January policy meeting and kept the Asset Purchase Facility steady at £895 billion.
Read More »Cryptocurrency Dogecoin Goes up After Elon Musk Tweet
The cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, rose by more than 50% after US billionaire Elon Musk showed his support on Twitter, two days after announcing that he would be away from the social networking site for “a while.” Dogecoin jumped to $0.05,798, according to data on the blockchain and cryptocurrency site CoinDesk. Tesla …
Read More »Eurozone Retail Sales surge by 2% in December
Retail Sales in the euro area rose by 2% on a monthly basis in December, the data published by the Eurostat showed on Thursday. This reading followed November’s contraction of 5.7% and came in better than the market expectation of 1.6%. On a yearly basis, Retail Sales increased by 0.6% …
Read More »Currencies Overview: US Dollar Rising on Optimism And Pound Awaits BoE Meeting
The dollar rose to its highest in more than two months against the euro and the yen on Thursday (February 4th), as pessimism about the outlook for the US economy subsided before the publication of important data on the jobs market. The pound fell against the dollar, but it is …
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