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The Opening Bell: Where currencies start for Monday, May 21, 2012

posted by Avatar Arnaud 6 days ago in NZD made popular 6 days ago

By Dan Bell The NZD/USD opens around 0.7560 this morning after making a new six month low of 0.7520 over the weekend. It has certainly been all doom and gloom over the last few weeks. The potential for a Greek exit from the EU and the implications for ... read more
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AUD/USD slides for third consecutive day; Aussie data ahead

posted by Avatar Arnaud 11 days ago in AUD

AUD/USD last trades at 0.9940. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported this morning, Martin Parkinson, Australian Treasury boss says the economy will survive one of the tightest budgets in years in part because its economic effects are milder than is ... read more
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Malaysia-Market factors to watch May 8

posted by Avatar Arnaud 19 days ago in all made popular 19 days ago

... Softs-Tokyo rubber above 300 yen; sugar premiums steady ----------------------MARKET SNAPSHOT @ 0003 GMT ------------ INSTRUMENT LAST PCT CHG NET CHG S&P 500 1369.58 0.04% 0.480 USD/JPY 79.89 -0.01% -0.010 10-YR US TSY YLD 1.8751 -- 0.002 SPOT GOLD ... read more
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BoJ Minutes: Economy Showing Signs Of Life

posted by Avatar Arnaud 20 days ago in JPY made popular 20 days ago

The asset purchase and credit facility were left unchanged at JPY 30 trillion and JPY 35 trillion respectively. The bank maintained its economic view, saying "Japan's economic activity has shown some signs of picking up, although it has remained more ... read more
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A Golden Trading Opportunity

posted by Avatar Arnaud 36 days ago in USD, EUR made popular 36 days ago

Lastly, looking at the chart of the Dollar ETF PowerShares DB USD Bull ETF (UUP), we see there was a 'golden cross' where the 50-day MA has crossed above the 200-day MA. This statistically means the US dollar will perform well in the near term. read more
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USD/JPY steady under 81.00

posted by Avatar Arnaud 44 days ago in USD made popular 44 days ago

High-Risk Warning Forex, Futures, and Options trading has large potential rewards, but also large potential risks. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. You must be aware of the risks of investing in forex, futures, ... read more
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New York London GMT Tokyo Sydney

posted by Avatar Arnaud 50 days ago in JPY

By Adam Button || April 6, 2012 at 12:32 GMT Stock futures fall and bonds rally on the soft NFP print, ignoring the drop in the unemployment rate. USD/JPY beat down to 81.70 from 82.55. Revisions were a wash with 13K jobs added to Feb and 9K taken away ... read more
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US Dollar Index off lows

posted by Avatar Arnaud 64 days ago in USD, CHF

At the moment: AUD +0.10%, EUR +0.33%, GBP +0.22%, NZD +0.29%, CAD +0.10%, CHF -0.35% and JPY +0.13%. Wall St. futures are down 0.06% at 13063 pts. and S&P500 futures are retreating 0.02% at 1395 pts. WTI is up 0.27 % at $105.93 Trading foreign ... read more
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Weak manufacturing adds to euro misery

posted by Avatar Arnaud 65 days ago in USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, AUD, Commodities, Economic Indicators made popular 65 days ago

The increased nervousness about the global growth has sparked an increased demand for 'safe haven' assets such as the USD and US Treasuries (ie US Govt bonds), and placed downward price pressure on NZD, Gold, Copper and other base metals, oil, ... read more
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Kevin Rudd (more or less) confirms that he will challenge Julia Gilliard for ...

posted by Avatar Arnaud 94 days ago in Commodities made popular 94 days ago

There is a lot to be learned here at this site everyday, and even though i... dan: Dear Jamie you think this will have negtaive effect on Aud? Thank you alx: Zerohedge has a piece about the latest Gold surge: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ ... read more
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USD/JPY Hits 3-Month Low

posted by Avatar Arnaud 114 days ago in all, USD, EUR made popular 114 days ago

The combination of better than expected euro-zone news and a poor US ADP Non-Farm Employment Change figure caused the USD to extend its bearish trend throughout the day yesterday. The EUR/USD shot up well over 100 pips during the European trading ... read more
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EU Debt Crisis: It's All Greek To Me

posted by Avatar Arnaud 118 days ago in USD, EUR, CAD made popular 118 days ago

In particular, our proprietary model suggests the strongest USD selling against CHF, CAD, AUD and JPY, with slightly less strong USD-sell signals against GBP and EUR. On Wednesday, China will a release pair of critical manufacturing sector PMI's, ... read more