Oil prices fell on Friday, heading towards a weekly decline of about four percent, affected by expectations of higher interest rates, weak global growth and restrictions to combat Covid-19 in China, which negatively affected demand, although the European Union is considering banning Russian oil imports. By 0130 GMT, Brent crude …

Oil, Crude, trading

Oil, Crude, trading

The pivotal support levels at 1.2460 managed to limit the bearish bias, which forced the pair to rebound bullishly again, heading to touch the required retest target at 1.2660, bypassing the target to record the highest 1.2590. Technically and carefully considering the 4-hour chart, the positive signs on the stochastic …

Oil, Crude, trading

Limited positive attempts were witnessed by gold’s movements yesterday, unable to breach the pivotal resistance level at 1959, which forced the price to touch the 1936 level. Technically, gold prices got additional support due to the intraday stability above the 1940 support floor. However, with a careful look 240-min chart, …

The single European currency managed to target retesting at 1.0920, recording a high of 1.0936, to return to trading with noticeable negativity due to hitting the resistance level. On the technical side, the euro’s moves returned to stability below the resistance level of 1.0880, most importantly below the psychological resistance …

There were 184,000 US Initial Jobless Claims in the week ending on 16 April, the latest data released by the US Department of Labour showed on Thursday, a tad above the expected decline to 180,000 from 186,000 a week earlier. That meant the four-week average number of initial claims rose …

The euro rose to a one-week high on Thursday as market expectations crystallized that the European Central Bank would implement its first interest rate hike as soon as July. European Central Bank President Joachim Nagel joined other policymakers this week in saying the bank may raise interest rates at the …

Eurozone’s Inflation rose 7.4% in March, on a yearly basis, according to Eurostat’s final reading of the Eurozone Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) report for the month. The reading disappointed expectations of 7.5% while against the 7.5% previous. Core figures rose by 2.9%, missing the 3.0% market estimates.