USDJPY – bears retest key near-term support
USDJPY fell 0.7% in Asia on Tuesday after comments from Japanese official added pressure on the central bank for more rate hikes to further boost strengthening yen.
The latest comments further improved yen’s sentiment, though most…
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BTCUSD – bulls hold grip but may pause for consolidation before attack at 70K barrier
BTCUSD is ranging around Fibo level at 67495 (76.4% of 71929/53142) on Monday, suggesting that strong bullish acceleration in past three days, which hit five-week high, might be losing traction.
Stretched daily indicators, with bearish…
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AUDUSD – downtrend extends into sixth consecutive day
AUDUSD hit three-week low on Monday after recovery attempts overnight were short-lived and bears regained full control.
The pair remains in a steep downtrend for the sixth straight day and retraced so far 61.8% of 0.6575/0.6798 rally.…
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EURUSD – correction was so far limited but risk of deeper pullback still exists
EURUSD edges higher in European trading on Monday as bears are taking a breather after a two-day pullback from a multi-week high (1.0948).
Rising 10DMA and Fibo 23.6% of 1.0666/1.0948 (1.0881) contained dips for now, signaling a scenario…
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WTI OIL – bears are taking a breather after 4.3% weekly drop
WTI oil price is holding within a narrow consolidation in early Monday, following sharp acceleration lower on Friday (down 2.8% for the day) and weekly loss of 4.3% (the biggest weekly drop since the last week of April.
Oil closed below…
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Gold price pulls back from new record high on profit-taking / stronger dollar
Gold price accelerated lower on Friday (down 1.7% so far), weighed by stronger dollar and profit-taking on overbought daily studies.
Pullback from new record high ($2483) was anticipated, due to significance of psychological $2500…
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AUDUSD is on track for the biggest weekly drop since mid-April
Australian dollar continues to trend lower vs its US counterpart for the fifth consecutive day, on track for the biggest weekly loss since the second week of April.
Bears have so far retraced 50% of 0.6575/0.6798 upleg and look for daily…
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USDJPY – bear-trap underpins but recovery still faces headwinds
USDJPY remains constructive on Friday and attempts to further extend Thursday’s strong bounce, with recovery being supported by signals of a double bear-trap, following a false break below pivotal Fibo support at 156.04 and thin daily cloud…
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Risk aversion lifts the dollar
The dollar index extends recovery into second straight day, with strong bounce from new four-month low (103.31) on Thursday, being fueled by fresh risk aversion on global cyber outage, which hit financial centers, banks, airlines and many…
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Cable dips further after downbeat UK retail sales
Cable remains in red for the second consecutive day and extends pullback from new one-year high (1.3044).
Weaker than expected UK retail sales increase pressure on sterling and add to bets for BoE rate cut in August (currently at 44%).…
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