Spot gold (XAU/USD) prices have been under selling pressure in recent trade, dropping from the mid-$1840s prior to the US open to around the $1830 as the Fed monetary policy announcement at 1330GMT looms. A combination of pre-Fed profit-taking and short-term, intra-day technical selling have been cited as the reason …
Read More »Positive Risk Sentiment Boosts The Dollar
The US dollar advances some 0.27% ahead of the release of the Fed monetary policy statement. The USD/CHF is upward biased but faces strong resistance at the 100-DMA. The USD/CHF surges in the North American session reclaim the 0.9200 figure ahead of the FOMC monetary policy decision. The pair is …
Read More »FED Preview: Forecasts From 4 Major Banks
The US Federal Reserve will announce its monetary policy decisions on Wednesday, January 26 at 19:00 GMT, and as we get closer to the release time, here are the expectations as forecast by analysts and researchers of 4 major banks. Wells Fargo “We highly doubt the FOMC will start the …
Read More »Gold is Stable, And Ukraine Risks Offset The Possible US Rates Hike
Gold prices stabilized on Wednesday as investors held off big bets ahead of a decision on the pace of monetary policy tightening at the US Federal Reserve meeting, while tensions surrounding Ukraine kept gold near a 10-week high hit in the previous session. And gold settled in spot transactions at …
Read More »Euro falls to one-month low as Ukraine tensions persist
The Euro fell to a one-month low on Tuesday as tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine drew investors to the dollar, a day before the Federal Reserve is expected to reveal details on its plans to tighten monetary policy.Tensions remained high after NATO said on Monday it was …
Read More »Bulls Still Control Gold Price Ahead Of Fed’s Rate Decision
The gold index (XAU/USD) has rallied on Tuesday, adding around 0.5% to the scale after climbing from a low of $1,834.95 to a high of $1,853.88 so far. The US dollar has come under pressure after reaching a two-week peak over tensions between Russia and the West. However, there was …
Read More »Major Currencies Trade With Pro-Risk Bias
Uneven and rather unpredictable trading conditions have prevailed for a second successive session on Tuesday. Ahead of the US close, the S&P 500 is still trading in the red territory but has recovered sharply off earlier session lows, giving a sense of De-Ja Vu after yesterday’s ferocious late-session recovery.The net …
Read More »USD/CHF Near Two-Week Highs Amid Speculations On SNB Intervention
The USD/CHF pair hit its highest level in nearly two weeks on Tuesday as the Swiss franc lost its safe-haven shine despite further downside in US (and global) equities and ongoing Italian political uncertainty. The pair broke to the north of its 200 and 21-day moving averages in the 0.9160 …
Read More »S&P 500 Dips As Monday’s Late Session Momentum Fades
After Monday’s stunning late-session recovery that saw the major US indices post and incredible recovery from intra-day lows, sentiment has taken a turn for the worse again. The S&P 500, which recovered a more than 4.0% dip to as lows as the 4220s on Monday to close above 4400, is …
Read More »Traders Reluctant Ahead Of BoC’s Rate Decision
The USD/CAD pair has dropped back from earlier session highs in the 1.2660s to the 1.2640 area, to put it back to trading with Asia Pacific 1.2620-1.2650ish trading ranges. The Canadian dollar and other risk-sensitive currencies remain highly sensitive to US equity market volatility. Major US indices have been taking …
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