Month: January 2021

Oil prices extended gains on Wednesday, rising to their highest since late February, after Saudi Arabia announced a big voluntary production cut, and as an industry report showed U.S. inventories fell last week. Brent crude rose 85 cents, or 1.6%, to $54.45 a barrel at 1050 GMT, its highest level since Feb. 26, 2020, after
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Yen selling takes center stage today, following strong rise in global treasury yields. In particular, US 10-year yield is trading at 0.99 at the time of writing, after hitting 1.037 earlier. Dollar remains generally pressured, and even the recovery against Yen is weak. The surprised contraction in ADP employment is definitely not giving the greenback
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GBP/JPY keeps bounces off short-term horizontal support, 100-bar SMA. MACD flirts with bulls as the quote keeps Wednesday’s gains. A Three-week-old ascending trend line lures the bulls. GBP/JPY prints mild gains above 140.00, currently around 140.25, during Thursday’s Asian session. In doing so, the pair retains the early week’s recovery moves from late-December lows and
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Latest data released by Markit/CIPS – 6 January 2021 Composite PMI 50.4 vs 50.7 prelim The preliminary report can be found here. A slight downwards revision as services activity is seen declining for a second month in a row, albeit marginally. That said, the data here doesn’t hold much significance as Q1 economic prospects have
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Popular wallet provider and crypto trading platform Blockchain.com has announced it will be delisting XRP and suspending its trading next week, following in the steps of Coinbase, Binance.US, OKCoin and others. Although, as of press time on Jan. 6, Blockchain.com’s information on supported crypto assets continues to feature XRP, a blog post published on Jan.
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USD/CAD is falling for the second straight day on Wednesday. WTI trades in the positive territory above $50. USD selloff remains intact ahead of US data, FOMC Minutes. The USD/CAD pair closed in the positive territory on Tuesday as surging crude oil prices helped the CAD outperform its rivals. With the oil rally remaining intact
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Dollar weakens again in rather quiet markets today. But there is no committed selling so far, as the greenback is staying inside yesterday’s range. European majors also soften, on lockdown concerns, and shrug of solid German economic data. Commodity currencies are stronger in general, even though risk markets are rather sluggish. US futures are pointing
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NZD/USD wavers in a choppy range between 0.7250 and 0.7260 after refreshing multi-month high the previous day. Return of risks refreshed US dollar declines, backed commodities and Antipodeans, NZ GDT also favored buyers. Noise surrounding China ignored, vaccine hopes battle virus woes. China’s Caixin Services PMI, Georgia runoff will be important to watch. NZD/USD buyers
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