Japanese shares fell on Friday, dragged down by losses in the technology sector, after the Nasdaq index fell 1 percent in the evening, on fears related to inflation and higher interest rates, which undermined the appetite for risk. The Nikkei index closed down 0.9 percent to 27,522.26 points, after dropping …

Retail Sales in the UK declined by 3.7% on a monthly basis in December following November’s increase of 1% (revised from +1.4%), the UK’s Office for National Statistics reported on Friday. This reading missed the market expectation for a decline of 0.6% by a wide margin. On a yearly basis, …

Oil prices fell on Friday, January 21, after rising to a seven-year high this week, as an increase in US crude and fuel inventories prompted investors to cash in on the rally. Gasoline stocks rose in the United States, the world’s largest oil consumer, by 5.9 million barrels, to the …

GBP/JPY declined noticeably yesterday after it failed to maintain trading above the 155.50 support level, explaining that the decline below the mentioned level puts the price under negative pressure to target 155.10 and 154.70, to record the pair’s lowest level at 154.45. On the technical side, there may be a …

The Canadian dollar is trying to build on the pivotal demand point published during all reports of the current week, located at the price of 1.2465/1.2460, which is trying to protect the pair from achieving more declines and forcing it to retest the 50-day moving average around 1.2540 resistance level. …

Oil, Crude, trading

Oil, Crude, trading

The yellow metal prices found a strong resistance level at 1847, which we mentioned during the previous analysis that breaching it is a basic and important condition to continue the rise. Technically, the intraday movement of gold is witnessing stability below the mentioned resistance. However, by looking at the 4-hour …

The strong supply area published yesterday, at 1.1370, managed to limit the bullish bias witnessed by the euro against the US dollar, which forced it to trade negatively, to retest the psychological support level 1.1300. On the technical side, the movements are witnessing a downward tendency, between 1.1300 and 1.1370. …

Markets were waiting for the US data before making any aggressive bets. According to the accounts of the December European Central Bank monetary policy meeting, it was cautioned that a “higher for longer” inflation scenario could not be ruled out.  There were 286,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the …