ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for June 20, 2019. See details below: FOREX The US Dollar Index, currently just above the 96 mark, hit a 3-month low on Thursday, in the aftermath of the Fed’s previous day announcement. Most notably, the American central bank dropped the word…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for June 14, 2019. See details below: FOREX The US Dollar continues to lose appeal to many investors, as a tension packed weekend looms. The confrontational rhetoric is increasing and so are the chances that the next step may lead to an…
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The following guest post is courtesy of ATFX. The dollar is back under strong pressure as the EURUSD took a leap higher on better than expected Euro Area GDP figures. Annual Euro area GDP was projected to increase by 1.1%, but instead, increased by 1.2%, which is a slightly higher pace than seen in the…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have provided their daily commentary on traditional markets for April 15, 2019. Forex The US Dollar continues to record losses, trading at $1.1320 to the Euro during early Monday trading as the markets’ risk-on mood carries on from last week, with encouraging signs provided by progress in the China-US trade talks and…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 2, 2019. Highlights include: Markets Start 2019 on Sour Note: Stocks in Asia and Europe are taking a hit on poor manufacturing data in China. Seasonal low trading volumes and the continued US government…
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The dollar hit seven-week highs vs the yen today, as investors awaited U.S. jobs data ahead of next week's Federal Reserve meeting, while weak inflation figures pushed the Norwegian crown to four-month lows against a stronger euro, Reuters reported. The single currency rose a third of a percent to a four-day high of $1.0619, having…
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Commodity-related sectors led European shares lower for a third straight session on Friday while the dollar was poised for a weekly losses as the "Trumpflation trade" lost momentum, Reuters reported. World stocks have hit record highs, emerging markets have come back in favor and the dollar has climbed to a 14-year peak in recent weeks…
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Last night's Fed minutes reinforced US policymaker expectations that we could well see multiple rate rises this year after last month’s rate rise, though officials remained cautious given the lack of clarity on the type of fiscal expansion that might be forthcoming in the coming months. In contrast to last year, this week’s data would…
Read moreIt was announced today that the board of directors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) decided in its meeting on Thursday (August 4, 2016) to launch US Dollar weekly options. Weekly TA-25 Index options were introduced by TASE in 2013 and their trading volumes are constantly on the rise. The average daily volume of…
Read moreThe European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to leave rates unchanged despite worries about how Brexit will affect the economy. The broad-based major European markets closed mixed on Thursday. The Japanese yen surged by over 1% right after the BBC showed a recorded video in which the BOJ’s governor Kuroda said there is no need…
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