Author: FX

High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your initial investment; do not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. Educate yourself on the risks associated with foreign exchange trading and seek advice from an independent financial or tax advisor if you have any questions. Advisory warning: FOREXLIVE™ is not an investment advisor, FOREXLIVE™ provides references and…

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Share: The ECB left the door open for data-dependent rate cuts, but remains tepid. Earnings beats helped equities shrug off Consumer Confidence miss. BoE, Fed the headline risks for next week. European indexes wrapped up Friday trading firmly in the green, shrugging off a dovish European Central Bank (ECB) and a downside miss in European Consumer Sentiment surveys after the ECB left the door open for data-dependency to trigger rate cuts earlier than the central bank is currently projecting. The ECB held rates flat this week, cautioning that discussions about rate cuts are still premature, but policymakers noted…

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Share: Silver prices dip, unable to hold above key $23.00 level, indicating a possible ongoing downtrend. Break below major supports like 200, 50, and 100-day DMAs strengthens bearish outlook for silver. Buyer resistance seen at $23.00 and 100-DMA ($23.15); fall below $22.51 may lead to $22.00, $21.93 supports. Silver price retreated late in the North American session after hitting a daily high of $22.97, though buyers’ failure to reclaim the $23.00 exacerbated the grey metal’s fall to current spot prices. Therefore, the XAG/USD exchanges hands at $22.73, down 0.59%. After printing three straight positive days, Silver retraced below…

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High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your initial investment; do not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. Educate yourself on the risks associated with foreign exchange trading and seek advice from an independent financial or tax advisor if you have any questions. Advisory warning: FOREXLIVE™ is not an investment advisor, FOREXLIVE™ provides references and…

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I can guarantee there will not be job gains in the US in January.But the consensus for the January non-farm payrolls report is +178K jobs. How can that be?The answer is seasonal adjustments. The non-farm payrolls report is seasonally adjusted, which means it’s a number that smooths out things like teacher hiring and seasonal work. It’s designed to look through things like temporary retail hiring in December and it’s also designed to look through those layoffs in January.Why I’m so sure that January will include layoffs is because it always does. As Diane Swonk from KPMG highlights, the average job…

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Share: EUR/USD reclaims territory near 1.0880 after drop into 1.0820. German Consumer Confidence declined to 11-month low. US PCE inflation eased more than expected, but spending remained high. EUR/USD recovered recent losses on Friday, recovering back into familiar technical levels. Still, overall gains remained limited after German Consumer Confidence backslid to almost a one-year low as economic conditions in Europe remain tepid at best. US Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) Price Index inflation figures eased more than expected, but further gains in December’s Personal Spending alongside an unexpected uptick in Pending Home Sales trimmed rate cut expectations. With the…

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Share: DXY Index records a loss, unable to consolidate past 200-day SMA but closes a 0.20% winning week. Core PCE figures from December came in weak. Markets are still pushing the start of the Fed’s easing cycle to May. The US Dollar (USD) Index is presently grappling with losses, trading at 103.35 on the DXY, in response to the release of softer Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) data for December, which gave the doves hope of earlier rate cuts. In that sense, market expectations hint at a possible rate cut by the Fed in March. However, if economic growth…

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Share: Canadian Dollar finds some room against the USD post-PCE print. Canada absent from the economic calendar until next Wednesday. Market focus to pivot toward upcoming Fed rate call. The Canadian Dollar (CAD) found some space on Friday, bolstered by climbing Crude Oil markets and clawing back some of the week’s losses. The US Dollar Index (DXY) broadly fell early Friday ahead of US Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) figures, and the DXY saw a choppy recovery after the annualized Core PCE Price Index slid more than expected. Canada is absent on the economic calendar until next Wednesday’s Canadian…

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