Japanese stocks fell at the end of the last sessions of the week, affected by doubts about the expectations of local companies, while technology shares recorded gains, tracking the rise of the Nasdaq index, which limited losses. The Nikkei index lost 0.61% to close at 29611.57 points, after rising 0.15% …
Read More »Gold Returns to Volatility And Focus on Employment Data
A bullish rally was witnessed in gold prices during yesterday’s session, nullifying the negative outlook as we expected. Therefore, we relied on the intraday instability below the 1799 resistance level after on the main support level 1768. On the technical side, there is a conflict between the technical signals, we …
Read More »The Euro Touches The Target And Extends Its Losses Against The Dollar
The euro declined noticeably against the US dollar during the last trading session, within the bearish context, as we expected, touching the first target 1.1560, approaching by a few points, at the second target 1.1500, to settle for recording the lowest price of 1.1525. Technically, and by looking at the …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 04-11-2021
The markets saw some moves during the European session on Thursday. The main drivers of the markets were the British interest rate decision. The dollar rose again as the market continued after the FOMC meeting, with the dollar significantly outperforming all currencies except the yen. The Bank of England’s (BoE) …
Read More »BoE’s Andrew Bailey Speech Highlights
Following the Bank of England’s (BoE) decision to leave the policy rate and the Asset Purchase Facility unchanged at 0.1% and £895 billion, respectively, BoE Governor Andrew Bailey is delivering his remarks on the policy outlook. “Cannot give a fixed time span for ‘transitory’ inflation.” “Unemployment is not expected to …
Read More »US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Decline to
There were 269,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the US during the week ending October 30, the data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) revealed on Thursday. This reading followed the previous print of 283,000 (revised from 291,000) and came in better than the market expectation of …
Read More »Bank of England Leaves Policy Rate Unchanged
The Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to leave the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.1% following the November policy meeting. in line with the market consensus, market pricing was pointing out to a 50% chance of a 15 basis points rate hike.
Read More »BoE Press Conference: Governor Bailey Speech Live stream – November 4
Governor Andrew Bailey will deliver his remarks on the monetary policy decisions in a press conference at 12:30 GMT on Thursday, November 4.
Read More »German Factory Orders Rebound in September
The German Factory Orders rebounded less than expected in September, suggesting that the recovery in the manufacturing sector of Europe’s economic powerhouse seems to be losing momentum. Contracts for goods ‘Made in Germany’ jumped 1.3% on the month vs. 2.0% expected and -7.7% last, the latest data published by the …
Read More »Oil Falls to Its Lowest Level in 4 Weeks
Oil prices fell to their lowest level in nearly four weeks on Wednesday after a larger-than-expected increase in US crude stocks, although gasoline stocks in the world’s largest consumer, the United States, sank to a four-year low. The global benchmark Brent crude contracts fell $2.73, or 3.2 percent, to settle …
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