OPEC stands ready to cut output to correct a recent oil price decline driven by poor futures market liquidity and macro-economic fears, ignoring extremely tight physical crude supply, OPEC’s leader Saudi Arabia said on Monday. Saudi state news agency SPA cited Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as …
Read More »Oil rests on support again 23/8/2022
Mixed trading tilted to the positive dominated the US crude oil futures prices yesterday, to witness the current movements return to the bullish track and hovering around its highest level during the early trading of the current session 91.00. Technically, the positive motive for the 50-day simple moving average supports …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – Monday, August 22
Although safe-haven flows dominated the financial markets for the majority of the day on Monday, Wall Street’s main indexes managed to close the day modestly higher.Gold suffered heavy losses and dropped toward $1,770 on Monday. With the 10-year US T-bond yield edging lower during the American trading hours, XAU/USD edged …
Read More »Oil is trying to build support 22/8/2022
US crude oil futures prices achieved the upside, as we expected at the end of last week’s trading, touching the required price station at 92.00, recording its highest level last Friday of $92.08 per barrel. Technically, and with careful consideration on the 4-hour chart, oil prices found strong resistance at …
Read More »Financial Markets’ Weekly Recap, August 15-19
The US dollar continued to rise on Friday, taking advantage of the negative factors that dominated the markets last week with Federal Reserve officials and their statements to raise interest rates at a faster pace. The euro and the British pound fell to a one-month low against the safe-haven US …
Read More »Market Drivers -US Session – Friday, August 19
The US dollar gained 0.73% to 136.87 against the Japanese yen, the strongest since July 27. Sterling tumbled 1.03% to $1.1813 and had its biggest weekly drop against the dollar since September 2020.The US central bank needs to keep raising borrowing costs in order to tame high inflation, as clearly …
Read More »Oil: Making noticeable gains, Looking for momentum 19/8/2022
US crude oil futures prices jumped to achieve noticeable gains within the previously expected track during the previous report, exceeding the required official target 90.00, recording its highest level during the morning session of 91.00. Technically, by looking at the 4-hour chart, we find the simple moving averages returned to …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – Thursday, August 18
The US dollar has strengthened all along US trading hours as best performer. Market players assessed several encouraging US macroeconomic readings that suggest the economy has a good chance to avoid recession, despite technically being in.Economic DataEconomic data refers to Initial Jobless Claims declining to 250,000, below expectations, Philly Fed …
Read More »OPEC’s Top Official: Relatively optimistic on oil outlook for 2023
OPEC’s new secretary general Haitham al-Ghais said on Thursday that he was relatively optimistic on the oil market outlook for 2023 and added that the world was dealing with economic pressures of inflation in a very good way.“I want to be very clear about it – we could cut production …
Read More »Oil: finds support 18/8/2022
Negative trading dominated the US crude oil futures prices within the expected bearish context, during which we targeted 85.00, to be satisfied by recording the lowest level at 85.40. Technically, the current oil movements show a bullish tendency after finding a good support floor near 86.00 accompanied by positive signs …
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