Oil, Crude, trading

Gold prices succeeded in touching the first official target published during the last analysis at 1781, recording its lowest level at the end of last week’s trading of 1782. On the technical side, gold’s current moves are witnessing stability below the previously broken support-into-resistance level 1797, 50.0% Fibonacci correction as …

Positive trading dominated the euro against the US dollar, but it is still limited within a sideways range between the support level of 1.1300 and below the main resistance level of 1.1380. Technically, looking at the 4-hour chart, we notice that the price is moving above the 50-day moving average, …

The last trading week ended with a decline in the US dollar as risk appetite improved with optimism around Omicron, in addition to data out of the USA. As a result, the dollar index, which measures the strength of the US currency against a basket of currencies, fell to 95.7. …

The Canadian economy added 54.7K jobs in the month of December, above expectations for a 27.5K gain, though still a marked deceleration from the 153.7K jobs added in November, according to the latest release from Statistics Canada released on Friday. Canada saw 122.5K new jobs in full-time employment, whilst part-time …

Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) rose by 199K in December versus the median forecast for a 400K rise (some newswires had reported the median forecast at 447K), data published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on Friday. That meant the pace of job gains was roughly in line with November, …

Oil prices rose on Friday and headed for the highest weekly increase since mid-December, due to unrest in Kazakhstan and production outages in Libya, which raised concerns about supplies. Brent crude futures rose 76 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $82.75 a barrel by 0939 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude …

Markets are awaiting the release of US employment data during December at 13:30 GMT. This data will be necessary given its strong impact on the dollar and the currency market movements. Markets expect to add 400,000 jobs in December, compared to 210,000 jobs previously recorded. Expectations also indicate a decline …

The annualized Eurozone Consumer Price Index (CPI) rises by 5.0% in December, surprising markets to the upside while a tad higher from the previous jump of 4.9%, the latest data published by Eurostat showed on Tuesday. The consensus forecast was for a drop to 4.7%. The core figures arrived at …

European shares fell on Friday, as cautious investors awaited US jobs data and eurozone inflation for indications of the pace of major central banks tightening monetary policy. By 0819 GMT, the pan-European Stoxx 600 index was down 0.2 percent. The chemical and travel sectors faced pressure and fell for the …