FxWirePro: Hedge crude’s break-out of higher range and petro-bloc currencies
Dec 28, 2017 12:53 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The combined Brent and WTI futures and options contracts remain very high at 926k lots. The record-high net length presents a big risk to oil structure, in our view, especially if markets were to weaken on the back of...
Three things that will shape the economy in 2018
Dec 28, 2017 12:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Whether you follow opinion polls, experts, the media, or soothsayers, a few common themes have emerged regarding the economy in 2018 and beyond. These are Brexit, the rise of the robots and a continued obsession with...
Dec 28, 2017 11:23 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
USDCAD bulls have been supported by 50% Fibonacci retracements levels from the peaks of 1.4689 levels, while 21-EMAs are supportive to the bears in the corrective mode. Please be extra keen on last six months price...
Dec 28, 2017 10:12 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
Funding in NOK seems to be lucrative and is substantiated as 1) limit drawdown in the event Fed policy gets upgraded more aggressively, and 2) benefit from continued drift in NOK as the Norges Bank remains at the back of...
Dec 28, 2017 09:24 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The Fed was first out of the blocks with a strong policy response to the global financial crisis, while the election of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister of Japan brought the BoJ into the fray, and by the start of 2015, the ECB...
Dec 28, 2017 09:24 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The Fed was first out of the blocks with a strong policy response to the global financial crisis, while the election of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister of Japan brought the BoJ into the fray, and by the start of 2015, the ECB...
FxWirePro: NZD short hedge in tandem with technical and fundamental projections in Q1’2018
Dec 28, 2017 07:56 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Technicals
Glimpse through technical and fundamentals: Technically, NZDUSD intermediate bulls test support at 50% Fibonacci retracements from the highs of 0.7558 levels. Ever since then, sharp rallies have gone above 7EMA. Your...
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