Spot gold (XAU/USD) is +0.7% higher in US trading despite an earlier spike lower that was fuelled by the latest US GDP report (the first estimate).
Trend + AB=CD Support Suggest a Buyers’ Market
Technically, the price of gold could be poised to attack higher terrain. The trend, according to the higher timeframes, is unquestionably north after recently...
The price of spot silver versus the US dollar (XAG/USD) remains entrenched within a moderate uptrend. This tends to attract trend-following systems that attempt to buy breakouts of key areas of resistance and buy into corrections.
As evident from the H4 chart, price action has rebounded from an equal AB=CD harmonic formation at $26.79. Traders commonly enter...
Amidst a dovish repricing, according to the OIS curve, sterling is on the back foot against the majority of its G10 peers ahead of the US cash open, currently down -0.5% versus its US counterpart.
With key support on the verge of breaching, this could lead to further downside in the currency pair!
Ahead of this week’s US GDP first estimate print and the PCE Price Index numbers, the US Dollar Index will likely be a watched market.
Buyers remain firmly at the wheel. YTD, we are nearly +5.0%, with April on track to close higher for a fourth consecutive month, up +1.5% MTD. And from a technical standpoint, further outperformance is on the table.
The USD/JPY currency pair recently refreshed multi-decade highs of ¥154.79, a move probing offers at channel resistance, taken from the high of ¥125.85. With resistance lacking here, this not only helps pave the way to test the mettle of ¥160.20 (highs from as far back as the 1990s) but also increases concerns about an intervention from the Bank of Japan (BoJ)....
We have an interesting technical picture unfolding on the NZD/USD at the moment. From the daily timeframe, it is evident that the currency pair has been underwater for the majority of this year. In fact, year to date, we are lower by -6.6%.
Further Selling?
Favouring bears at this point is the downtrend shaped by a series of lower lows and lower highs since...
