Gold’s Bearish Bias Calmed by Support Boundary
Gold is tiptoeing across the flattened red Tenkan-sen line at 1,864 after the more than two-week decline from the 2,000 price vicinity bounced off a support zone that stretches back to mid-February. The descending slopes of the simple moving averages...
USDJPY Indecisive ahead of FOMC Policy Decision
USDJPY has barely been moving so far this week ahead of the FOMC policy announcement, facing strong rejection around the 130.20 barrier. Although the pair remains close to its recent 20-year top of 131.24, the possibility for a downside correction...
Swiss Franc Dips, Dollar Range Bound as Fed Hike Awaited
Major forex pairs are generally stuck inside yesterday’s range as markets await FOMC rate decision. Swiss Franc is the exception, though, as the selloff against Euro spreads to other Franc pairs. Dollar and Canadian are the next weaker ones. On...
Markets in Tight Range ahead of Fed Hike, Dollar Firm
Overall, the markets are pretty quiet as focuses turns to Fed’s rate hike and guidance today. Dollar is consolidating in tight range, preparing for the next move. For now, Aussie and Loonie are the stronger ones for the week, but...
AUD/NZD Technical Breakout on RBA Rate Hike
The RBA’s surprise hike caught AUD/NZD traders with their guard down. As a result, the pair traded to its highest level since August 2018. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) surprised markets with its first interest rate of the new...
Dollar Softer Slightly, European Majors Trying a Rebound
Dollar is turning softer entering into US session, as traders might start to lighten up position ahead tomorrow’s FOMC rate decision. Commodity currencies are also soft, except Aussie which is supported by RBA’s hawkish rate hike. Yet, there is no...
Fears of a Fed mistake grow as this week’s anticipated interest rate hike looms
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, attends the National Association of Business Economicseconomic policy conference in Washington, D.C, United States on March 21, 2022. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The Federal Reserve is tasked with...
The Federal Reserve’s fight with inflation could cool the hot labor market, risking stagflation
The Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates in an effort to defuse an explosive year of price inflation. But global forces could neutralize the effects of that tightening of monetary policy, and keep inflation high. Some observers believe the U.S....
Oil Preparing for Sharp Moves
The price of crude is down more than 3% by the start of the New York trading session with a tug-of-war around $100 a barrel of WTI. And this is a rather remarkable market reaction, given reports that EU countries...
Dollar Staying Firm in Quiet Markets, Canadian Dollar Lower With Oil Price
Dollar remains the firmer one today, in quiet markets, as traders are awaiting Fed’s rate hike, and forward guidance later in the week. Yen’s trading tone is so far positive, as risk markets lack buyers. Commodity currencies are weak together...