The US dollar index, which measures its performance against a basket of six major currencies, declined 16 points during today’s trading, to record 95.87 points, and traded during the day in a range between 95.87 and 96.14 points, thus 0.93% lower than its levels five days ago. The dollar received …
Read More »Euro Maintains Bearish Trend
Limited sideways trading that tended to the negativity dominated the euro’s movements against the US dollar, maintaining the regular bearish context working within the descending price channel. On the technical side, the current moves of the euro against the US dollar are settling below the resistance level of 1.1380, and …
Read More »Omicron Pulls EUR/JPY Back
Appetite for safe-haven assets has picked up in recent trade amid a deterioration in US shares due to retreating market sentiment.EUR/JPY has been tilting lower and looks for direction to end the day with losses of about 0.5%. The first Omicron Covid-19 infection has identified in America and, shares reacted …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 01-12-2021
OPEC expected the oil surplus to increase to 2 million bpd in January, 3.4 million bpd in February and 3.8 million bpd in March 2022. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, through a leaked document during today’s meeting, said that the demand for transport fuels in Europe may also …
Read More »Euro Hits a Key Resistance Level
We stayed on the fence during the previous technical report due to the conflicting technical signals, explaining that reactivating the buying positions requires breaking the 1.1330 resistance level, which is a catalyst that helps consolidate gains to retest 1.1375/1.1370, recording the highest 1.1380. On the technical side today, the current …
Read More »EUR/USD Falls On Powell’s Comments
The EUR/USD fell during the New York session, on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks in a testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking and Housing.At the beginning of the Q&A session, the EUR/USD pair was trading around the 1.1370s but plummeted to 1,1240s on remarks of Jerome Powell.Jerome Powell …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 30-11-2021
The entire market was focused on Coronavirus mutant headlines statements of Moderna. The World Health Organization has warned of a very high risk of infection from Omicron, as some countries have already tightened border controls. However, US President Joe Biden said the US would not restore lockdowns, giving investors’ confidence …
Read More »The Dollar is Falling And The Yen is Jumping After Moderna’s Statements
The dollar fell against other major currencies on Tuesday, and the yen rose to near its highest levels in more than two weeks after the CEO of Moderna Pharmaceuticals told the Financial Times that current vaccines against Covid-19 are likely to be less effective against the new mutant Omicron. Markets …
Read More »Euro Awaits Pending Orders
Sideways trading dominated the euro’s movements, confined between the support level of 1.1240 and the resistance level of 1.1330. Technically, looking at the 4-hour chart, the simple moving averages are trying to form a support base around 1.1250/1.1240 in conjunction with the RSI getting bullish momentum signals on the short …
Read More »Market Drivers – European Session 29-11-2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he would never support a rate hike and “never back down from it”, repeating his support for recent interest rate cuts that have caused the lira to plummet. NTV quoted Erdogan as telling reporters during his return flight from a visit to …
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