Bullish Trend Has Stopped

Fundamental Analysis EUR German bunds rose on worries that European leaders will struggle to resolve the euro zone debt crisis during tonight's European summit. David Schnautz of Commerzbank AG in London thinks that Europe is unlikely to solve key topics and will probably disappoint the market. The 5-year bund lost 5 bp to 0.47 percent at 10:49 GMT after tumbling to 0.461 percent, the lowest since 1990, when Bloomberg began gathering data. USD Crude oil futures declined in Asian session on Wednesday as Iran is ready to invite nuclear inspectors, the move that may ease oil import sanctions. Light, sweet crude oil futures for July delivery traded at 91.27 US Dollars per barrel, retreating by 0.63% from the last session's high of 91.72 US Dollars per barrel. GBP Today the minutes of the ...

Fundamental Analysis EUR "The rally is mostly technically driven after we became quite oversold last week." - Raimund Saxinger, a fund manager at Trust Investment GmbH European stocks rose by the most in a month on Tuesday. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index gained 1.91 per cent to 244.76. Germany’s DAX Index edged higher 1.65 per cent and France’s CAC 40 Index added 1.88 per cent. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index rose 1.86 per cent to 5,403.28 USD "People are becoming more confident about job prospects and about taking on mortgages." - Millan Mulraine, a senior U.S. strategist at TD Securities Inc. U.S. existing home sales rose in April to an annual rate of 4.62 million from 4.47 million in March, said the National Association of Realtors. GBP "These figures give the Monetary Policy Committee ...

Fundamental Analysis EUR "Inevitably there is going to be an element of bargain hunting as investors look to top up their holdings on the basis of slightly lower prices" - Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers European stocks edged higher on Monday on China’s pledge to boost growth. USD "Equity prices have gotten oversold" - Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist for Janney Montgomery Scott LLC U.S. equity market edged higher on Monday on China stimulus hopes and after German and French officials said they would cooperate to keep Greece in the monetary union. GBP "Obviously, as the euro depreciates, the U.K. gets slightly more expensive" - Miles Shipside, Rightmove commercial director U.K. national house prices stagnated in March, announced the ...

Majors resumed the bearish tone against the greenback after a slight recovery with the start of the trading session, where the U.S dollar headed to new highs and continues to bag meaty gains against its major counterparts. The overall scene is clearly derived by Greek jitters, while a care-taker government leads the country until June’s fresh elections. It seems that markets have already started the pricing process of a Greece exit; if that is true, the selloff we have seen is just the beginning. Spain weighed on markets as well, the country dipped technicaly into recession as the economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter which is the second consecutive contraction. while Moody`s rating agency plans an immenent yp to 21 Spanish banks downgrades according to Spanish newspaper ...

Fundamental Analysis EUR "The U.S. labor-market report will further erode investor confidence" - Markus Allenspach, head of bond research at Julius Baer Group Ltd. European stocks extended weekly losses, after a report showed U.S. companies added fewer jobs than expected in April. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index erased 1.76 per cent to 253.00. Germany’s DAX Index tumbled 1.99 per cent and France’s CAC 40 Index contracted 1.90 per cent. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index lost 1.93 per cent to 5,655.06. USD "We’re still very much on the recovery path, but we’ve got a huge amount of ground to make up in the labor market" - Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James & Associates Inc. The number of Americans, who have found a job in the private sector in April, tumbled to 115,000 from 154,000 the ...

Pending home sales slipped 0.5% February however 9.2% higher from the same period of last year; the numbers are expected to have a mild effect on markets as risk-appetite dominates the trade. Risk-on trade was ignited earlier today from Germany; according to reports some officials hinted that the country is poised to agree on increasing the euro zone firewall by the weekend. On the other hand, dovish comments from the FED’s boss Mr. Bernanke that more accommodative policies are needed signaled another rounded of easing remains possible. The U.S. dollar was sold off sharply against its major counterparts, where the most traded currency broke 1.3200 pivot. The EUR/USD has broken the neckline of an inverted head and shoulders pattern around 1.3290 and currently pushing to the upside ...

The pair NZD/USD has stopped its bullish rally on the resistance at 0.8436 (level 23.60%). Then, a correction occured. However, the trend will remain strongly bullish as far as 0.7980 (level 50%) is support. A return above 0.8286 will comfort our bullish feeling and the breakout of 0.8436 will give a new buy signal and open the way towards 0.86, 0.88. In case of breakout of 0.7980, we will be neutral between this level and 0.7776 (level 61.80%). This level matchs with the lower band of the bearish channel (black lines). The breakout of this level will indicate a bearish trend reversal and we will then expect a return on 0.76 and 0.74. Previous NZD/USD Daily Analysis - February 2012

Dukascopy Fundamental Analysis EUR European governments urged Spain to implement larger budged deficit cuts to prevent debt crisis from returning to the region. 10 days ago Spanish PM Rajoy unilaterally increased Spain's deficit target to 5.8% of GDP for year 2012 and claimed the country will aim to attain region's common target of maximum 3% in 2013. The announcement was not praised by region's officials who recently signed fiscal discipline treaty. USD US federal budget deficit widened more than expected in February, reported Department of the Treasury. The US federal budget balance declined to minus 231.7 billion US Dollars on a seasonally adjusted basis in February as compared to minus 27.4 billion US Dollars in January. Experts predicted the deficit to attain 229.3 billion US ...

www.sunbirdfx.com As we estimated, the US stock market made the bullish correction to the declines from the beginning of the week, and those who expected to see a crashing of the stock got the exact opposite. Wall Street can easily slide to the bearish momentum again but the most important thing here to understand is that the general trend is still bullish, which means that those who missed the rally might buy stocks after the slightest correction. EUR/USD The next two days are full with important economic data as today is published the European interest rate, which expected to remain at 1.0% and the investors will look forward to the ECB press conference. The risings in Wall Street helped the Euro that found a support at 1.31, and if the investors like what they hear from the ECB ...