ForexTribe is a french website mainly created to share graphic analysis and trade ideas on the Forex Forum.
Declined Demand For The YenTitle:
Dukascopy Afternoon Forex Overview : 24/05/2012
Fundamental Analysis
EUR
European stocks returned to growth, despite services and manufacturing purchasing managers indices across Europe and German business confidence shrank more than expected. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 1.0 percent to 241.81. Cable & Wireless Communications Plc soared 19 percent. Sonova Holding AG gained 2.5 percent. Bayer AG declined 1.1 percent. U.S. futures and Asian stock little changed. S&P 500 futures gained 0.3 percent, MSCI Asia Pacific index added 0.1 percent.
USD
The US Dollar followed bullish trend on Thursday as Germany disapproves issuance of Eurobonds that may help to ease Greek debt burden. Traders are also cautions ahead of Euro Zone's manufacturing data release due later today. The US Dollar index, which tracks the greenback's performance ...
Title:
Kiwi Pauses Decline, Can It Keep Gains?
The New Zealand dollar stalled its declined and rebounded today on speculations that losses were excessive. Gains were limited, though, as the disagreement between European leaders hurt demand for higher-yielding assets.
Losses were indeed big as the kiwi (the nickname of New Zealand’s currency) was falling since the beginning of May against the greenback and since the beginning of March versus the yen. In fact, just yesterday the currency touched the lowest level this year. The NZ dollar had a bit of good news today as the traded balance surplus widened to NZ$355 million in April from NZ$186 million in March. Nevertheless, the adverse global economic environment caused by Europe’s woes is likely to keep the kiwi from running much higher.
NZD/USD was up from 0.7516 to 0.7546 as of 11:02 ...
Title:
Greek Exit Fears Weigh, Gold Bounces Epically
The euro (EUR) dropped to a 22-month low falling to 1.2545 from 1.2686 against the US dollar on a heightened risk aversion in the markets. Concerns that Greece may face a damaging default and a messy exit from the eurozone weighed on the single currency after talks said that Eurogroup was asked to prepare a Greek exit plan. Wednesday’s informal EU summit did little to restore sentiment in the market after it showed no progress on how EU leaders are planning to tackle the eurozone debt crisis but all agreed on the importance that Greece stays in the euro. France pushed a proposal of joint eurozone bonds, which can help with funding difficulties for some heavily-indebted eurozone countries but that policy is rejected by Germany.
The US dollar (USD) strengthened against a basket of ...
Title:
Japan Policy On Hold, Eyes On BoE Minutes
The euro (EUR) dropped near a 21-month low falling to 1.2645 from 1.2814 against the US dollar as risk aversion dominates the markets. Comments from former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos raised concerns after he said that Greece has two options, stick to a painful austerity program or face a damaging default and a messy exit from the eurozone. Focus now turns to today’s informal EU summit where France is expected to push a proposal of joint eurozone bonds. The idea of joint bonds can help with funding difficulties for some heavily-indebted eurozone countries but that policy has been rejected by Germany before. EU leaders are also expected to focus more on growth and ways to help Greece stay in the euro.
The US dollar (USD) strengthened against a basket of currencies as fears of a ...
Title:
Major currencies record lowest in months against dollar
Major currencies witness a collapse in its levels against dollar with the end of the week after the announcement of Fitch Ratings that Greece went to CCC from B-, which increase worries over Greece’s failure in keeping its membership in Euro zone.
Euro declined to the lowest in four months against dollar and for the third consecutive week, where the EUR/USD pair recorded low at 1.2658 after opening at 1.2697 and high of 1.2707.
GBP/USD pair recorded the lowest in two months to decline for the fourth consecutive day reaching low of 1.5749 from 1.5782 recording high at 1.5792.
Japanese yen keep inclines against dollar amid the declining of Asian stocks that record loss, which boosted the demand on Japanese yen against major currencies to increase yen’s momentum. USD/JPY pair reached the ...
Title:
Dukascopy Afternoon Forex Overview : 05/17/2012
Dukascopy Fundamental Analysis
EUR
Mario Draghi, the ECB President, insisted on Greece to stay in the Euro bloc during his public speech on Wednesday regarding the possibility of Greece withdrawal from the Eurozone. Nevertheless, according to him, the ECB will stick to its anti-inflation mandate. The ECB President's comments came after Irish and Belgian central banks reported that Greek exit would not be disastrous for the Eurozone.
USD
Jobless claims in the U.S. didn't live up to the expectations that it will decrease by 5K and remained unchanged, at 370K level, in the week from 6th to 12th of May. Amount of people on rolling unemployment claims increased by around 18K while the number of people on prolonged payments decreased by around 45K. 31 out of 52 states or territory's reported ...
Title:
Markets Hold Ground, Awaiting Central Banks to Move
Taking a general look at markets before the end of this week, we can see that the bearishness started to lose momentum as traders are speculating now what tools Central Banks might provide to revive the slowing pace of recovery, especially the European Central Bank amid the current political instability in Greece, the confirmed recession in Spain and Italy and the deepening debt crisis.
Moreover, investors are still worried and concerned regarding the general trend in markets, where after the Federal Reserve reassured that a slowing recovery in the U.S. might trigger another round of quantitative easing, volatility dominated markets as predicting the coming moves became highly uncertain as Politicians failed to calm markets and the fueled debt crisis, leaving policymakers with a difficult ...
Title:
Dukascopy Morning Forex Overview : 05/17/2012
Fundamental Analysis
EUR
"We expect euro-region inflation to normalize in 2013"
- Michael Schubert, an economist at Commerzbank AG
Inflation in the seventeen nation bloc eased to 2.6 per cent in March from 2.7 per cent the previous month, said the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg on Wednesday.
USD
"Uncertainty about Greece and the effects a potential exit out of the euro would have on Europe, the global economy and the financial system in general is driving investors out of stocks into safe havens"
- Markus Huber, head of German sales trading at ETX Capital
The Standard & Poor's 500 lost 0.44%, or 5.86 points, to 1,324.80. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined by 0.26%, or 33.45 points, to 12,598.55.
GBP
Unemployment figures are a "welcome step in the right ...
Title:
Dollar fell against majors after FOMC meeting minutes
Dollar and Yen both declined against major currencies today in a correction movement for safe currencies after a series of gains for more than two weeks, where the FOMC meeting minutes showed that U.S. need more support during the upcoming period which negatively affected on dollar’s demand.
From another side Europe’s sovereign debt crisis still has a negative impact on major currencies performance as well as euro, where all eyes are waiting for the second round of presidential elections in order to determine the nation’s outlook.
AUD/USD pair inclined to high of 0.9955 from 0.9930, hitting low of 0.9926, where the dollar index that measures dollar’s performance against currencies showed the longest series of falling.
NZD/USD pair inclined recording high of 0.7676 after recording low of ...
|