It was a painful day for European stock market bulls on Wednesday as broad-based selling hit, despite a German CPI report that could pave the way for an earlier ECB pause.Stoxx 600 -1.1%German DAX -1.7%UK FTSE 100 -1.0%French CAC -1.7%Italy MIB -2.1%Spain IBEX...
Euro sink to a fresh two-month low
The euro is at a new session low, down 83 pips to 1.0651. The pair had attempted to find support at the early-European low of 1.0660 and bounced from there but the selling resumed in the last 20 minutes.Month-end flows have been a factor this week but the economic...
US dollar jumps after strong job openings report
It's all about the data today. In the past hour, we've seen the dollar drop on poor manufacturing data only to jump right back on strong job openings numbers.GBP/USD shows the round trip.That chart arguably understates the magnitude of the moves. On most charts, the...
OPEC output fell 460k bpd in May – survey
OPEC members pumped 28.01m bpd in MayProduction fell 460k bpd after voluntary cuts took effectOutput is down 1.5 mbpd from SeptApril output was revised down 150k bpdNigeria, Angola and Iraq are producing materially under their voluntary and formal cuts. It could be a...
US April JOLTS job openings 10.103m vs 9.375m expected
Prior was 9.59mHires 3.9% vs 4.0% priorSeparations rate 3.7% vs 2.5% priorQuits 2.4% vs 2.5% priorThe dollar has jumped on this report, which indicates that companies are still gung-ho to find workers. The market is pricing in a 62% chance of a June hike. I'm not a...
USDCAD trades back below 100 hour MA. Can the selller keep the momentum going
USDCAD below the 100 hour moving averageThe better-than-expected Canada GDP brings the Bank of Canada back in play after their conditional pause in rate hike's. That has the USDCAD moving lower.Technically, the price just broke below its 100 hour moving average at...
US dollar legs lower on manufacturing worries
The US dollar is under broad pressure on manufacturing worries after a regional manufacturing survey plummeted. The pound is taking full advantage and has nearly erased today's decline.Sterling is also benefiting from comments from BOE hawk Catherine Mann, who said...
US major indices trade lower at the open
The major indices in the US are opening lower. The Dow Industrial Average is down for the 7th out of 8 trading days. NASDAQ index is also lower after 3 straight days of gains. The S&P index is back below its 100-week moving average at 4198.61S&P index is below...
GBPUSD buyers had their shot. They missed. What next?
The GBPUSD moved higher yesterday but could not sustain momentum and get above the 38.2% retracement of the May trading range. The inability to extend above that level was a big failure for the buyers. The sellers are back in control. The price decline today has taken...
Strong GDP numbers could force the Bank of Canada to hike next week
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem will be doing some soul searching ahead of the June 7 rate decision.In January, the central bank hiked rates to 4.50% and said this:Governing Council expects to hold the policy rate at its current level while it assesses the impact...
USDJPY trades between hourly moving average levels. Await the next shove.
The USDJPY is trading in a fairly narrow up-and-down trading range today. The low to high trading range is 75 pips. The average of the last 22 trading days (around a month of trading), is 117 pips.Technically looking at the hourly chart below, the price low in the...
Fed’s Bowman: Residential real estate ‘appears to be rebounding’
Residential real estate appears to be rebounding, with implications for the Fed 's inflation battleWhile lower rents will eventually be reflected in inflation data, home prices themselves are levelling outPandemic-related surge of homebuilding and renovation has...
GBPJPY Technical Analysis
On the daily chart below, we can see that GBPJPY has broken out of the 172.19 level, and it may now be pulling back to retest the resistance turned support. We’ve been seeing the pair rallying for a couple of months as the divergence between the BoE and BoJ’s monetary...
EURUSD trendline stalls the fall in trading today. What next?
EURUSD bottomed at lower trend lineThe EURUSD fell to the lowest level since March 20 in training today. The low price extended to 1.0658. The declines erased the rebound gains from yesterday. The low price yesterday reach 1.06718 before rebounding to an intraday high...
Canada Q1 GDP +3.1% vs +2.5% expected
Q4 was 0.0%March GDP 0.0% vs -0.1% expectedAdvance April GDP +0.2% m/mGDP +0.8% q/q vs 0.0% in Q4Implicit price q/q +0.2%Exports +2.4% vs +0.5% prior Imports +0.2% vs -3.3% priorHousehold spending on goods +1.5%, services +1.3% Favourable international trade and...
The USD is the strongest and the NZD is the weakest as the North American session begins
The strongest to the weakest of the major currenciesThe USD is the strongest of the major currencies , while the NZD is the weakest of the majors. The USD reversed some of the declines vs the EUR and the GBP from yesterday's trading. Inflation in Europe was weaker...
Germany May preliminary CPI +6.1% vs +6.5% y/y expected
Prior +7.2%CPI -0.1% vs +0.2% m/m expectedPrior +0.4%HICP +6.3% vs +6.8% y/y expectedPrior +7.6%HICP -0.2% vs +0.2% m/m expectedPrior +0.6%The downside miss was already foreshadowed by the state readings earlier and this marks the lowest level in annual headline...
ForexLive European FX news wrap: Dollar regains poise on risk retreat
Headlines:Markets:USD and JPY lead, AUD lags on the dayEuropean equities lower; S&P 500 futures down 0.4%US 10-year yields down 5 bps to 3.646%Gold flat at $1,959.58WTI crude down 2.6% to $67.67Bitcoin down 2.4% to $27,121It was an eventful session as there were a...
US MBA mortgage applications w.e. 26 May -3.7% vs -4.6% prior
Prior -4.6%Market index 197.4 vs 205.0 priorPurchase index 154.4 vs 158.3 priorRefinance index 412.5 vs 443.0 prior30-year mortgage rate 6.91% vs 6.69% priorOnce again, mortgage activity declined as there is a significant jump in the interest rate of the most popular...
We have the votes to pass the debt limit bill today – McHenry
It's all just semantics at this point as the debt ceiling issue is now kicked down the road once again, as it has always been over the past many decades. As mentioned earlier in the week, this isn't going to be a concern for markets anymore as the focus switches back...