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The ECB’s decision. The European Central Bank (ECB) held its interest rates unchanged during their monetary policy meeting yesterday. Main Refinancing Operations Rate: 0.00% Marginal Lending Facility Rate: 0.25% Deposit Facility Rate: -0.50% The size of its quantitative easing (QE) programmes remains unchanged as well. Asset Purchase Programme (APP):...
The dovish tapering decision. During its monetary policy decision yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept its cash rate unchanged at 0.10%. As promised, the central bank proceeded with its quantitative easing (QE) tapering plan announced back in the July’s meeting. What came as a surprise is the duration of the new round of QE. Previously, the RBA...
Jobs growth in August way off market’s expectation. Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 235,000 jobs being created in August, way below the market’s expectation of 720,000. The leisure and hospitality sector, the main driver behind the strong jobs growth for the past several months, added zero jobs amid the rise in COVID cases. With the...
With Jackson Hole this week looking to create rotation in certain names, I believe you may be able to look beyond it to mid caps like EBAY who have been showing a tremendous amount of relative strength recently against the broader indices and I wonder if there's a lot more left in the tank. After ETSY's earnings went off in a strong way, we'll see if names like...
I have set-out my logic in prior posts of how I am exiting the SP500 market from prior longs bought more than 18 months ago - by selling into rallies. If an infrastructure deal goes ahead and debt ceiling issues are dealt to successfully, I will reconsider my current stance. However, I am happy to scalp particularly from needless / senseless market...
Fed tightening 10 year surged to almost 3.2% when Powell tried to tighten this can be seen on the chart below. Now following that measure to tighten you see the S&P fall 20% this miscalculation of the FED to increase rates. Powell was out to pop the equity bubble, but again this miscalculation caused them to stop tightening, and on the chart below you can see this...
Nasdaq pretty much recovered from a dip last week and is about to retest its current high at 15170. For the past couple of weeks, we have been waiting for a major correction in the stock market amid a strong sentiment of tapering from the Fed. Ironically, both the S&P and Dow continued to break new high except for the Nasdaq which continued to range around...
Supply Zone reached Lower Highs and Lower Lows forming. Distribution phase. Spring now before final drop before 1760
Rising wedge with pullback estimates. Tapering is very possible at this meeting and I believe we will finally see a pullback once it is announced.
The above chart show’s FXCM’s USDOLLAR index on a weekly time scale and is reflective of the primary trend. Longer-term charts tend to align with the underlying fundamentals and here we can see a higher trough followed by a higher peak – the technical definition of an uptrend. The greenback is trending up as market participants start anticipating the tapering of...
Pretty strong bull pattern, but this pattern does have regular retests of the 50 SMA. The end of the current cycle could coincide with Jackson hole, maybe tapering news?
Three days ago, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) delivered a little surprise when it decided to stick with its quantitative easing (QE) plan announced back in July despite the recent spike in COVID cases in Australia. (Refer to my post "RBA Sticks With QE Tapering Plan (04 August 2021)" on RBA monetary policy) Details on why the central bank decides to...
Just a couple of days before the release of the long-awaited U.S. nonfarm jobs report, several Federal Reserve committee members expressed their hawkish views on an QE tapering. Fed Vice Chairman sees QE tapering to start this year. During his speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics yesterday, Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said that...
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) keeping of September tapering on the table, despite covid woes at home, offered over 40 pips of immediate upside to the AUD/USD pair on the announcement. However, the quote remained below a one-month-old horizontal hurdle surrounding 0.7400–7410 and seems to ease of late. Although firmer RSI and RBA’s hawkish title favor...
Hello traders! Canada's economy is showing excellent signs fo improvement and the last jobs report has shown that the jobs market is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels. Expected CAD strength from today BoC meeting. Enter at market or at the pivot. Have a great day! Vitez
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USDCHF extends Fed-led rally to the fresh high since May 06 even as the Swiss National Bank (SNB) reiterated status-quo during early Thursday. The pair seems to prepare bulls for the bi-annual SNB press conference while heading towards a convergence of 100-day SMA and 50% Fibonacci retracement January-April upside. Given the upbeat RSI conditions, not oversold,...