The Turkish lira rose about 1% Thursday, January 7, reaching its strongest level since August 21, as the US dollar retreated to levels not seen in nearly three years. The lira, which lost about 20% of its value last year, was at 7.25 against the dollar, up from its close …
Read More »Gold Climbing as The Democratic Leadership of the US Senate Supports Stimulus Hopes
Gold prices rose Thursday, January 7th, as a democratic sweep of the re-election in Georgia boosted expectations of additional US stimulus, although the rise in Treasury yields curbed the yellow metal to below a two-month high it reached in the previous session. Gold advanced in spot transactions to more than …
Read More »Nikki Reaches a Peak of 30 Years And Financial Sector is The Top Performer
Japanese shares closed higher on Thursday, while the Nikkei index hit a 30-year high with the support of financial stocks, as US Treasury yields rose thanks to hopes of greater stimulus following a Democratic sweep in a two-seat Senate election in Georgia. The Nikkei index closed more than 1% higher …
Read More »Twitter, Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts Amid D.C. Riots
Twitter and Facebook have temporarily suspended the accounts of US President Donald Trump, as tech giants scrambled to counter his unfounded claims about the presidential election, amid riots in Washington D.C. Twitter withheld Trump’s three tweets and requested that they be deleted “as a result of the continuing and unprecedented …
Read More »Congress Resumes Debate on Electoral College Votes After Riots
Congress has resumed the electoral counting process to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, hours after crowds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that House members will quickly resume counting the votes to confirm the outcome of the presidential elections after securing the …
Read More »German Factory Orders Beat Estimates in Nov
The German Factory Orders increased in November, suggesting that the manufacturing recovery in Europe’s gaining some momentum. Contracts for goods ‘Made in Germany’ came at +2.3% m-o-m vs -1.2% expected and +3.3% previous, the latest data published by the Federal Statistics Office showed on Thursday. On an annualized basis, Germany’s Industrial …
Read More »Bitcoin Touches The Desired Targets
Bitcoin succeeded in achieving the positive outlook, as we expected, touching the second target to be achieved yesterday, located at 37,240, recording its highest level at 37,692. Technically, the general bullish trend is still intact, but we believe that there is a possibility of a bearish slope occurring in the …
Read More »DAX Witnessing Strong Gains
Positive trading dominated the German DAX, as we expected, touching the official station mentioned in the previous technical report at a price of 13,870, recording the highest of 13,920. On the technical side, we will maintain our positive outlook, depending on the stability of the intraday trading above the previously …
Read More »GBP/JPY: Yen Reiterates Chances of Upside
GBP/JPY tends to be positive, benefiting from the stability above 139.80 support. On the technical side, we tend to be positive, depending on trading above the aforementioned support, in addition to the positive motive of the 50 day moving average. Therefore, we target 140.65 as a first target, bearing in …
Read More »Canadian Dollar Looking For Momentum
The Canadian dollar was able to build a base on the support floor of 1.2650, which we mentioned as a protection key to limit the bearish trend, forcing the pair to retest the previously broken support, which was converted to the resistance level at 1.2730. Technically speaking, and despite the …
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