Oil, Crude, trading

Significant gains were achieved by US crude oil futures prices within the positive outlook, as we expected yesterday, touching the first target of 81.70, and recording a high of 82.35. Technically, oil prices collided with a strong resistance level of 82.40, which forced it to trade with strong negativity, so …

Gold failed to achieve the expected bearish target mentioned in the previous technical report, in which we relied on the stability of trading below the 1903 level, explaining that the return of trading stability above 1911 negates the proposed scenario. As a result, gold regained the main bullish path, waiting …

The single European currency achieved our expected bullish target during the previous session’s trading, which was at 1.0870 and recorded its highest level at 1.0887. Technically, we notice that the level of 1.0880 formed strong resistance on the EUR/USD pair and forced it to decline marginally to the downside so …

Retail Sales in the United States declined by 1.1% on a monthly basis in December. This follows November’s fall of 0.6% and misses consensus estimates for a 0.8% fall. Excluding autos, core retail sales also contracted by 1.1% during the reported month as compared to a 0.4% fall anticipated and a modest …

The three main figures in Ukraine’s interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary. Seventeen people died when the helicopter came down in Brovary …

The European Union’s statistics office (Eurostat) said on Wednesday that the rate of consumer price inflation slowed in the single European currency area in December, as expected, thanks to the continued decline in energy prices after reaching record levels earlier. Eurostat added that prices in the twenty countries that share …

European stocks rose on Wednesday as risk appetite was supported by a batch of positive corporate earnings reports, with the index on track for its longest consecutive period of gains since November 2021. And by 0815 GMT, the European Stoxx 600 index rose 0.3 percent, supported by a rise in …

Britain’s consumer price inflation fell to a three-month low of 10.5% in December, providing some relief to the Bank of England and British households, but food and drink prices continued to rise at their fastest pace since 1977. The decline in the headline inflation rate from 10.7 percent in November …

The Japanese yen fell on Wednesday after the Bank of Japan kept interest rates very low, disappointing some investors who had hoped the bank would adopt more policy adjustments. The Bank of Japan surprised the market last month by raising its yield cap on 10-year bonds to 0.5% from 0.25%, …