Oil continues its path towards weekly gains on Thursday, as the OPEC+ announcement of additional production cuts targeted and falling US oil inventories overshadowed concerns about global economic growth. The two crude prices rose more than six percent this week, heading towards recording gains for the third week in a …

Gold prices retreated from their highest levels in a year on Thursday as the dollar regained some ground while investors await the US Nonfarm Payrolls report to assess the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy strategy. Spot gold fell 0.3 percent to $2,014.26 an ounce by 0543 GMT, after reaching its highest …

Japan’s Nikkei index closed at a two-week low on Thursday, driven by selling in exporters’ stocks after the yen rose overnight, while heavyweight technology stocks followed the Nasdaq’s decline. The Nikkei index fell 1.22 percent to close at 27,472.63 points, the lowest level since March 24. The broader Topix index …

Oil, Crude, trading

Oil, Crude, trading

Due to conflicting technical signals, we adhered to intraday neutrality during the previous technical report, explaining the importance of monitoring the price from below 79.20 and above 80.85. Technically, prices failed to stay long above the resistance level of 80.85. Therefore, the stochastic indicator gradually lost bullish momentum, supporting the …

Trading tended to be positive and continued to control the prices of the yellow metal during the previous trading session as part of a gradual rise towards the target of the previous report at the price of 2040, to suffice with recording the highest $2032 per ounce. Technically, and with …

Quiet trading dominated the movements of the EUR/USD pair. No significant change appeared within a limited bearish bias due to the negative pressure after touching the resistance level of 1.0965, to witness the current movements stabilizing above the psychological barrier of 1.0900. On the technical side today, negative signs started …

The figures released on Wednesday by the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the international trade imbalance in goods and services increased by $1.9 billion to $70.5 billion in February. This result was worse than the market projection of a $69 billion deficit. “February …

According to a Statistics Canada report released on Wednesday, Canada’s merchandise trade surplus with the rest of the world fell from C$1.2 billion in January to C$0.42 billion in February. This result was worse than what the market had anticipated, which was a surplus of C$1.8 billion. “Exports were down …