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 …
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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 …
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Read More »CAD: technical conditions unchanged 18/1/2023
The Canadian dollar fell yesterday within the bearish path published during the previous technical report, approaching by a few pips at the first target of 1.3360, recording its lowest level at 1.370. The technical view is unchanged, and the pair maintains the same technical conditions. The common tendency tends to …
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