The New Zealand Dollar has fallen significantly across the board recently due to uncertainty regarding monetary policy. On the other hand, the Canadian central bank is likely to hike rates next week, which provides a potential policy divergence trade on the NZDCAD pair. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand have changed their stance on monetary policy recently by...
USDJPY has been in a strong downtrend since the end of 2017 and analysts expect this trend to end soon but there is a real possibility of this pair continuing downwards in the short term before finding support. The dollar index saw around a quarter percent gain last week after some choppy trading following the release of employment data on Friday. The non-farm...
The Aussie Dollar experienced strength throughout 2017 against its US counterpart with a strong rally to finish the year before forming a double top last week. Over the past week, AUDUSD has fallen almost 2%, following a CPI miss in Australia and a positive earnings report in the United States. Is this a sign of things to come for the remainder of 2018 or will...
Following a weak summer for the US Dollar, momentum has begun to pick up again over the last month as the chances of a December rate hike have increased and traders are starting to price this into the markets once again. In Switzerland, rates remain in negative territory and the Swiss National Bank seem committed to an expansive monetary policy. This policy...
EURGBP Daily – Is Parity Inevitable? Earlier today the Euro broke the psychological $1.200 handle for the first time in 2 years whilst and it is now heading towards an all time high against the British Pound. At the start of the year, analysts had predicted further weakening for the Euro. We are now at the end of August and those predictions could not have been...
AUDCAD Weekly – AUDCAD has been trading within a triangle since the beginning of the year and as we approach the end of summer, traders will be hoping that an increase in volatility will see a break of this triangle. The Aussie Dollar has been one of the strongest currencies this year but the levels it has reached in recent weeks are considered to be overvalued....
Crude Oil has plunged around 5% today following an OPEC meeting where OPEC members and its allies agreed to extend their oil production cut deal for another 9 months. This move was widely expected by traders before the meeting but they were disappointed that deeper cuts were not announced. The current deal has production cuts of 1.8 million barrels a day but...
The British Pound has rallied around 500 pips since Theresa May made the announcement for a snap general election. At the time of the announcement, polls were showing that the Conservative Party had a 19% lead over the Labour Party and this was a pound positive as the UK prepared for Brexit negotiations. However, just over a month later, things are not looking as...
The share price of Sky PLC spiked as much as 30% earlier today as news broke out about a potential takeover from 21st Century Fox. Fox already holds 39% of Sky PLCs shares and a preliminary deal has now been reached for Fox to purchase the remaining stake at £10.75 per share. Sky currently operates in five different countries within the EU and with the current...
The beginning of October saw Gold making a bearish break of the descending triangle following positive data from the US to support a December rate hike. Since then, Gold has slowly retraced and is now hovering around the 200 day moving average. As India begins its Diwali festival and continues through the wedding season, Gold demand is expected to increase. Along...
AUDUSD has been trading within an ascending triangle for the majority of this year and a breakout is expected within the next two weeks. With the US Dollar hitting nine month highs earlier this week, a December rate hike is strongly expected which would strengthen the greenback further. Meanwhile, the pressure of a rate cut has eased in Australia after inflation...
Copper Weekly – At the beginning of 2011, Copper made a directional change and has fallen more than 50% to date. However, with the copper demand growing, the commodity could be ready to make its next directional change in the coming months. China, the largest consumer of copper, is seeing its economy stabilising once again after suffering during the first half of...
AUDJPY Daily – Since late November 2015, AUDJPY has been trading within a downwards channel. As we head towards the final quarter of 2016, investors will be focussing on the decisions of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Japan who could both cut rates even further. Earlier this week, the RBA chose to keep rates unchanged but low inflation rates and a...
NZDJPY Daily – Since the start of 2016, this pair has entered a downwards trending channel which it has followed well. Recently, it tested the bottom of the channel but was unsuccessful in breaking out and is now heading towards the top of the channel which is crossing over with the 78.6% Fibonacci level. This upwards movement is supported by a fairly strong New...