Oil WTI crude oil prices eased down from the seven-year maximums reached during the previous session. Tension between Russia and the West over the potential invasion of Ukraine, has been one of the main factors behind the recent increases in the price of the barrel, with traders pricing-in the increasing likelihood of an armed conflict…
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GOLD Early Monday trading saw gold hedging down from the 2022 maximums reached on Friday, albeit not by much as geopolitical tension continues to build up. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is, according to several Western authorities, imminent, and the markets are reacting by seeking safe-haven assets, in a dynamic that strongly supports the precious metal.…
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The 100% weekly Fibonacci retracement, i.e. full retracement of losses in Q1 2020, is the main technical reference here and still a very strong support. A clear break below this would probably need a new catalyst from the RBA on Tuesday or Thursday morning’s balance of trade. Usually, a single NFP is unlikely to have…
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$1,800 remains the main technical reference; the price is currently testing this zone. Based on TA, at least a temporary breakout is likely this week with ATR at about $15. Continuation upward is uncertain and probably looks unlikely for now given the presence of price within the value area between the fairly tightly bunched moving…
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From a technical point of view, a clear move back above $80 seems to be unlikely as of now given this area’s importance as a psychological resistance and buying saturation based on the slow stochastic. ATR of around $2.20 is now about half the peak in December, though, so a retest of $80 seems very…
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For the time being, the bias based on TA still seems to be towards the upside but a clear breakout above $1,800 might still be some way off. The latest attempt to move above this important psychological area was rejected on Friday, and with activity likely to drop in the runup to Christmas there probably…
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The current channel is narrow with $1,770 and $1,800 remaining in view as likely boundaries. The bias for gold based on fundamentals seems to be towards buying unless the Fed is very hawkish on Wednesday, but TA remains noncommittal. All three moving averages are above the price and momentum upon emergence from oversold (based on…
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Even before large losses at the end of last week, it already seemed fairly unlikely that the cartel would significantly boost production. With most members seemingly content with prices of Brent around $75-85 and various countries including Japan having released their strategic reserves of crude, there had been no clear calls among OPEC for increasing…
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The court also found that Capson made misrepresentations about Denari’s activities to the National Futures Association (NFA). The court ordered Capson and Sarkar to payf $250,000 and $166,000, respectively, as penalty. Additionally they and Denari are required to pay restitution of $3,663,282 to victims of their scheme. The court also imposed a permanent injunction prohibiting…
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