The pound surged on Friday as statistics indicated that retail sales volumes in the United Kingdom increased at their quickest rate in nearly two years, as restored consumer confidence helped offset the pain of high inflation and interest rates. According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, sales increased …

Retail sales climbed by 0.5% after falling by 1.2% in March. This was more than the 0.3% growth predicted by experts. Food shop sales increased by 0.7%, while non-food store sales increased by 1%. Other retail and department store sales increased by 2.1% and 1.7%, respectively, month over month. ONS …

European stocks rose on Friday, supported by the mining and technology sectors, although the main indices were on their way to incur big weekly losses, as investors feared the US debt ceiling crisis and the global economic slowdown. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.4 percent by 0707 GMT, …

The Japanese Nikkei index rose on Friday, supported by gains in chip companies, as the strong profits achieved by the US company Nvidia continued to enhance the gains of the sector. The Nikkei index closed up 0.37 percent to 30,916.31 points, achieving gains for the seventh consecutive week, the longest …

The dollar fell on Friday, but remained close to the highest level in two months against major currencies, amid expectations that US interest rates will remain high for a longer period. Tension still hangs over the market due to the US debt ceiling negotiations between President Joe Biden and Republican …

Oil, Crude, trading

Significant gains were witnessed by the Canadian dollar’s movements yesterday within the bullish path published during the previous technical report, touching the first target to be achieved at 1.3650, recording its highest level at 1.3654. Technically, and by looking at the 4-hour chart, we find that the simple moving averages …

Oil, Crude, trading

US crude oil futures declined, invalidating the positive outlook as we expected, in which we relied on trading stability above 73.40, touching the stop loss order, and recording a low of 71.04. Technically, the current movements are stable below the previously broken support at 71.55, represented by 61.80% Fibonacci correction, …

Gold prices achieved the negative consideration, as we expected within the corrective decline mentioned during the current week’s trading, touching the required official station 1945 and touching the additional target 1936, recording its lowest level at $1936 per ounce. Technically, the intraday movements witness stability above 1945, Fibonacci correction 50.0%. …