Focus shifted to the USA in terms of high impact news events on Tuesday, the Conference Board consumer confidence index fell slightly, although the Expectations Index sub section of the overall data showed a significant drop from 70.8 to 75.7. However, as a counter balance the Present Situation sub section rose from 77.3 to 81.7. […]
In the overnight – early morning trading session focus centred mainly on the issues from China in relation to the yuan which the Chinese authorities, in the form of the central bank, appear determined to see devalued versus its major trading peers. As a consequence the renminbi took its biggest fall in over two years.
Mark Carney has wasted no time in mingling and schmoozing at the G20 summit currently ending in Sydney. Ahead of the publication of official data this week from the UK, that is expected to confirm robust GDP growth, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney highlighted Britain’s lead over other major economies after he attended
Our weekly trend/swing trading analysis consists of two parts; firstly, we analyse the fundamental policy decisions and medium/high impact news events for the coming week. Secondly, we use technical analysis in an attempt to determine any potential trading opportunities by way of trend analysis. Traders reading our key calendar event highlights for the week should
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Many Asia-Pacific equities recovered overnight due to a US manufacturing report showing that factories are increasing production in the world’s biggest economy. Japanese and South Korean were the leading bourses in both nations with the Nikkei closing up 2.88%. A volatile week is on pace to conclude with five-day gains for most indices across the
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As we move through an explanation and analysis of the indicators that we favour in our “is the trend still your friend?” weekly trading article, we’re now going to look at one of the simplest, most popular and arguably one of the most powerful indicator trading tools there is – the RSI. The simple explanation
The weekly unemployment claims in the USA were released on Thursday and came in at 336K, once again stubbornly trapped in the range that is quite a permanent feature of the weekly high impact news events. One area where the employment numbers may be helped in the USA is in the manufacturing sector which according
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The markets have been dominated by the raft of PMIs published by Markit this morning and overnight. The Eurozone PMI composite index has continued its bullish end to 2013 with 52.7 registered for the month of January, which is still very close to the 30 month high. Despite this the markets in Europe have sold
It’s worth taking a step back from our industry from time to time to marvel at the improvements and opportunities that have developed over recent years. Our retail industry as we know it, operating on the web through trading platforms, is only just over 14 years of age and yet in its present form retail
At the end of a day which was thin on news events, it was left to the FOMC to provide what many FX traders believed would be the market drama as they revealed their latest minutes which contained some fascinating detail. We’ve highlighted a couple of the critical passages further down the article. Perhaps the
