New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has said she is resigning, in an unexpected announcement that came as she confirmed a national election for October. At the party’s first caucus meeting of the year on Thursday, Ardern said she “no longer had enough in the tank” to do the job. …

European stocks were heading on Thursday to halt a series of consecutive gains over six sessions, after lackluster US economic data stoked fears of a global economic slowdown, and investor sentiment was also affected by non-negative European corporate earnings. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was down 0.6 percent by 0815 …

On Thursday, the Japanese Nikkei index recorded the largest decline in two weeks, retreating from its highest level in a month, with the fading effect of the Bank of Japan’s decision to maintain its stimulus policies, as well as the rise in the yen, which pressured the shares of export …

Oil, Crude, trading

The Canadian dollar was able to touch our awaited target during the previous analysis at 1.3350, recording yesterday’s low at 1.3350, to start a bullish bounce as a result of touching the support represented in the target. Technically, the pair formed a bullish rebound to the upside, and the current …

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 …