Very little movement through the early part of the US session. Movement picked up following a drop just before 930 Eastern (chart time). The price did consolidate just below a range around 9:20 but at that point movement was still really low. It was after the bigger drop around 9:30 that things started to look…
The dollar index DXY is up by +0.06% today. The dollar is slightly higher today as the escalation of hostilities between the US and Iran is boosting crude oil prices, which raises inflation expectations that could prompt the Fed to tighten monetary policy, a supportive factor for the dollar. Higher T-note yields today have also…
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The EUR/USD currency pair continues to bounce around a major support level which has been like a magnet for price. The 1.14 level is an area that has been both support and resistance on short-term charts, but when you fan out and look at longer-term charts, it is easy to see that over the last…
For Vietnam’s economy, the first half has demonstrated an ability to address difficult questions effectively. The rest of the year will require proving something even more important: not only growing fast but also finishing in balance, writes Minh Vu, associate director of FX trading, markets and securities services, HSBC Vietnam. Minh Vu, associate director of…
Markets struggled to settle on a single narrative today as investors weighed conflicting geopolitical headlines alongside a range of regional developments. Reports that mediators had proposed a 10-day ceasefire between Washington and Tehran initially offered hope that last month’s Memorandum of Understanding could be revived. Those hopes were tempered, however, by market chatter that US…
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The New Zealand dollar is noisy again on Monday, as we continue to see this area offer resistance. NZD/USD The New Zealand dollar is somewhat noisy but positive during the trading session here so far on Monday. But you can see we continue to see a lot of noise right around that 0.5850 level. The…
I like this pair to a point, but I also recognize that it is a slow-moving market quite often. A gradual climb is what I am looking for here. > USD/SGD It’s been very choppy during trading here on Monday in the US dollar Singapore dollar currency pair, which probably isn’t a huge surprise because,…
The Aussie Dollar (AUD/USD) has broken out from a descending broadening formation as traders weigh worries that the Middle East conflict could spread further across the region against the potential stabilizing impact of a proposed 10-day ceasefire. The AUD/USD currency pair pushed higher from this respected technical pattern on Monday, extending last week’s solid gains,…