Bulls’ spurt

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EUR/USD

Despite the strong domestic statistics, the American currency still feels pressured. Nevertheless, the pressure weighs not only upon the US currency, but also on other safe assets. The yen and franc are suffering and the stock markets keep demonstrating impressive growth. This surge of optimism has been caused by the news that the US employment market is doing well. The weekly unemployment claims have reduced by 42K to 338K instead of growing to 380. The forecasters have made a serious mistake, or probably it is all about the holiday season, when population gets less active. After all, the number of continuing more…

Outlook for 2014: Part Two

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EUR/USD

The Asian stock markets showed some growth after the holidays, taking their lead from the US pre-Christmas positive mood. Yet, the yen is still under pressure. It hit a fresh five-year high against the dollar – at 104.82. AUDUSD also opened with a gap down. Probably, it is somehow interconnected as AUDJPY hasn’t demonstrated any changes – the cross opened at 93.06, where it had been before closing. So, no significant shifts. And it is quite reasonable as during the holiday time there wasn’t any important events. During the pre-Christmas trading session the dollar was in demand most of the time, more…

Outlook for 2014: The time of shocks is over

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EUR/USD

Let’s outline the prospects of the major currency pairs in the coming year. The euro performed well in the last quarter, considerably appreciating against the dollar and the yen. Even against the sterling its decline was not as strong as it could have been. And if we include here the rate cut by the ECB in November, the current strength of the single currency looks really mysterious. We think that EURUSD is getting support from the EU banks, which store liquidity on their balance sheets to get stronger by the time of stress tests. The improved sentiment indicators in the region more…

Marking time

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EUR/USD

Two steps back and a step forward – this is approximately the way in which describe the dollar’s performance in the recent days can be described. On Friday and yesterday it was retreating, thus giving bulls an opportunity to test 1.3700. Yet, all the attempts to get above 1.3710 were not very confident and were immediately followed by a pullback at a safe distance. Now trading is held at 1.3680 and the dollar is getting some support as the Fed’s hawk Fisher has mentioned that he was advocating a bigger cut of the purchases last week. This news, as well as more…

The strong payrolls didn’t help USD grow against EUR

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EUR/USD

And again the euro is growing despite the news. The preceding eventful week ended with the US employment stats. The November report met the market’s high expectations and even surpassed them somewhere, but failed to produce any continuous effect on the euro, which eventually grew against USD. Now the euro/dollar is above 1.3700, which is the highest level since the end of October and within the reach of a long-term resistance (1.3750). This resistance is rather conventional, so we can hardly expect a burst of activity, should it be broken. The previous highs (1.3785, 1.3815, 1.3830) are of more importance now. more…