The most important economic data for this week are: Thursday: US quarterly GDP growth rate on Thursday at 12:30pm GMT. Market participants are expecting the figure to come out at 3.2%, down from 4.9% in the previous quarter. This data might have already been priced in as it’s for the previous quarter, though any significant…
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The most important economic data for this week: Monday: US Services PMI at 15:00 GMT for January. The consensus is for an increase from 50.6 points to 52. This might be rather bullish news for the dollar since it would mean the services sector in the States is still expanding, given that the actual figure…
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The focus for the Fed’s press conference on Wednesday night is on whether there’s any hint about a hike in the fourth quarter. Traders mostly expect this to be the last hike of this cycle for the moment, but it’s likely that the consensus will change at least slightly after Jerome Powell’s comments. Friday’s PCE…
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USOIL, daily Oil prices are on the rise after Saudi Arabia and Russia announced supply cuts for August. Saudi Arabia extended its voluntary production cut of one million barrels per day (bpd) for another month, while Russia announced it would reduce its oil exports by 500,000 bpd in August. Both countries are trying to prop…
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GBPUSD, daily The negative Claimant change on the 13th as well as the decline in unemployment figures in the United Kingdom had a positive effect on the quid against the dollar while the pausing of the Fed on the 14th had also contributed to the gains seen on the daily chart of the cable pair.…
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EURUSD, daily This will likely be a rather volatile week for the pair since there is major data related to EUR and USD in 3 consecutive days this week with the peak on Friday where the “king” of publications the NFP is set to be released. FOMC minutes last week confirmed that the main objective…
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On the technical side the price on the fiber chart has found resistance on the upper band of the Bollinger bands and has since corrected to the downside. The 50 SMA has crossed above the 100 SMA indicating the bull movement is still strong while the Stochastic oscillator is not indicating any overbought or oversold…
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On the technical side the price of Crude oil on the daily chart is “walking the band” ( touching the Bollinger bands in consecutive sessions) indicating great push by the bears in high volumes. It is trading at a 15 month low with no signals of correcting to the upside just yet while the 50…
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On the technical side the end of the bearish symmetrical triangle is in sight without any clear signal yet as to where the price will head. The Stochastic oscillator is not showing any overbought or oversold levels while the cross of the 50 day moving average above the 100 day moving average gives some indications…
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On the technical side the price has recently broken above the resistances of the 38.2% of the daily Fibonacci retracement level, the 50 and 100 moving averages as well as the bearish symmetrical triangle formation that was in effect since mid November 2022. This major correction to the upside was somewhat “paused” (at the time…
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