Japanese shares closed slightly higher on Friday, after giving up some of their early gains, as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to look for any clues on the pace of US monetary tightening. The Nikkei index closed up by 0.57 percent at 28,641.38 points, after …

Oil, Crude, trading

The Canadian dollar provided mixed trading yesterday, approaching a few points from the target published during the previous analysis at 1.2880, recording its lowest price at 1.2895. Technically, we find that the pair returned to the bullish rebound, benefiting from the pivot on the solid support floor of 1.2880. We …

Oil, Crude, trading

Mixed trading dominated the US crude oil futures prices during the previous trading session to maintain positive stability, recording a high of $95.72 per barrel. Technically, we notice the negative signs coming from the stochastic that support a bearish bias in the upcoming hours, in addition to the decline of …

We remained neutral and preferred to monitor the price behaviour for the second session in a row due to the conflicting technical signals, explaining that the confirmation of the bullish corrective bias that occurred yesterday depends on the consolidation above 1758, targeting 1761 and 1767 respectively, to record gold at …

The single European currency recorded its highest level against the US currency during yesterday’s trading session at 1.0033 to find a strong resistance level; as we explained during the last analysis that 1.0030 represents a strong supply point, which forced the pair to return to the bearish bias. On the …

The US economy contracted at an annualized rate of 0.6% in the second quarter, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis’ (BEA) second estimate showed on Thursday. This reading came in higher than the flash estimate of -0.9% and surpassed the market expectation of -0.8%.

There were 243,000 initial jobless claims in the week ending August 20, the weekly data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This print followed the previous week’s print of 245,000 (revised from 252,000) and came in better than the market expectation of 253,000. Further details …

European shares rose on Thursday after gross domestic product data from Germany, the continent’s largest economy, beat analysts’ expectations. At the same time, concerns ahead of the minutes of the European Central Bank’s latest meeting limited gains. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was up 0.6 percent by 0712 GMT. Energy …