Oil, Crude, trading

The futures prices of US crude oil witnessed a trading session in the green areas, heading to record the first weekly gain in almost a month, touching $73.93 per barrel. Today’s technical side indicates the possibility of continuing the rise, relying on the bullish technical formation shown on the 4-hour …

Gold prices continued the corrective decline mentioned during the last technical report, touching the first target located at 1960, recording its lowest level at $1954 per ounce. Technically, gold prices are trying to bounce back due to touching the 1954 support level, which forced it to achieve a scenario of …

Narrow sideways trading tended to be negative, dominating the movements of the EUR/USD pair during the previous trading session after it failed to stabilize for a long time, according to the resistance of the psychological barrier 1.0800. Technically, with a closer look at the 240-minute chart, we find the Euro …

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister has cautioned oil speculators to “be careful” ahead of the latest OPEC+ meeting, after the group decided to cut output in early April. “I would just tell them to watch out,” Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman remarked on Tuesday, implying that those wagering against oil price hikes …

The UK will avoid a recession this year, according to the IMF, which added that the country’s economy has been “buoyed by resilient demand in the context of declining energy prices.” The Washington-based think tank now predicts UK GDP to expand 0.4% in 2023, owing to higher wage growth, more …

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday the central bank had “very big lessons to learn”, with inflation still in double digits and food prices rising at the fastest rate since the 1970s. “I think there are very big lessons about how we operate monetary policy in the …

Japan’s Nikkei index fell sharply on Tuesday after reaching a 33-year high, with some investors rushing to sell stocks to lock in profits, after the index posted eight straight days of gains. The Nikkei index started the day’s trading strongly and reached a new peak at 31352.53 points, a level …

European stocks fell on Tuesday, dragged down by Swiss wealth manager Julius Baer after weak results, while investors await data on business activity in the euro zone for clues about the path of interest rates. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was down 0.3% by 0715 GMT, with the travel and …

The dollar touched a six-month high against the yen on Tuesday amid the continuing debt ceiling crisis in the United States and growing expectations that interest rates there will remain higher for a longer period. The dollar rose to a six-month high of 138.80 against the yen in early Asian …