USDJPY

Daily Market Comment – Oil carnage spreads to stocks

Posted on April 22, 2020 at 9:22 am GMT

Oil price collapse continues, sending shivers through stock markets Trump signals bailouts for US producers, but paradoxically, that could worsen oil’s plunge Dollar pares gains after Trump’s bailout talk, pound softens on Brexit comments Euro in focus as investors flee Italian bonds before tomorrow’s EU summit Trump hints at bailouts as oil crumbles Energy markets can’t catch a break, with Brent following WTI lower this time to touch a low last seen during the Gulf war, as the devastation in [..]

Technical Analysis – USDJPY consolidates below SMAs and Ichimoku cloud

Posted on April 21, 2020 at 12:46 pm GMT

USDJPY has been consolidating since March 27 and has been stuck in a channel tilting slightly to the downside. The neutral to bearish picture in the short-term looks to last for a while longer after price slipped below the simple moving averages (SMAs) earlier this month. Resistance was met at around the 109.20 region, forcing the pair to reverse lower. The negative bias in the near term is supported by the deterioration in the momentum indicators. The %K line of [..]

Daily Market Comment – Oil trades negative as storage space runs out

Posted on April 21, 2020 at 9:18 am GMT

WTI oil price goes negative as physical storage space runs out Loonie and other oil-sensitive currencies retreat But little impact in other assets – mild risk aversion only Yen and dollar gain on defensive flows, stocks turn red, kiwi drops Oil price turns negative as energy market craters For the first time ever, the price on a barrel of WTI crude oil fell to zero yesterday and then traded negative, falling as low as -$40.32/barrel in a move so unprecedented [..]

Daily Market Comment – Oil plummets, but stocks hold their ground

Posted on April 20, 2020 at 9:24 am GMT

Loonie drops as WTI crude oil plummets to two-decade low Yet, rest of the market still calm – stocks near recent highs, yen and gold retreat Are stocks exaggerating the V-shaped recovery, or is there nothing else to buy? Demand fears devastate oil prices The energy market is back under immense pressure, with WTI crude falling below $15 per barrel today for the first time since 1999 as investors increasingly realize that there’s so much excess supply that storage space [..]

Daily Market Comment – Virus drug hopes, Trump reopening plan fuel optimism; dollar holds firm

Posted on April 17, 2020 at 8:28 am GMT

Risk appetite returns on promising coronavirus drug and hope of shutdowns ending soon Stocks re-energized, gold dips but dollar resilient China reports first ever drop in GDP, but markets stay positive Trump wants to reopen economy, markets like it The mid-week souring in risk sentiment is seeing a turnaround as optimism for a way out of this virus crisis returns to the markets. After a series of data showing a collapse in key US economic indicators, ranging from retail sales [..]

Technical Analysis – USDJPY promotes further declines with revisit of latest low

Posted on April 15, 2020 at 7:42 am GMT

USDJPY sellers are presently retesting the 106.91 latest low from April 1 after pivoting at the 109.22 level – that being the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement of the up leg from 101.17 to 111.71 – and pushing back under the mid-Bollinger band and congested simple moving averages (SMAs). Reflecting a pause in the market are the short-term oscillators and the mostly flat SMAs. However, as things stand, it appears that the market is leaning slightly towards a neutral-to-bearish bias. The MACD [..]

US retail sales and industrial output to be slammed by coronavirus – Forex News Preview

Posted on April 14, 2020 at 2:05 pm GMT

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a devastating impact on the US labour market and the next data to get the virus treatment are retail sales and industrial production. Both are due on Wednesday at 12:30 GMT and 13:15 GMT, respectively. The virus outbreak may have been dominating the headlines since January but the hard data for countries other than China have only now started coming in. Thus, can the latest bout of market optimism prevail, or will the dire [..]

Daily Market Comment – Stocks edge up as earnings get underway amid stabilizing virus cases

Posted on April 14, 2020 at 8:24 am GMT

Stocks head higher as easing virus outbreak lifts mood But risk of over-optimism as US earnings poised to unveil virus hit Pound and aussie extend gains as dollar retreats Is the global pandemic peaking? Cautious optimism that the global pandemic of the coronavirus may have started to peak pulled global equities higher on Tuesday just as traders are about to find out what the impact of the outbreak was on corporate earnings. Stocks in Asia ended the day between 1-3% [..]

Daily Market Comment – OPEC cuts, but oil and stocks don’t ‘buy it’

Posted on April 13, 2020 at 8:33 am GMT

OPEC+ agrees to an almost 10 million barrels/day supply cut Oil opens higher, but surrenders most gains as compliance doubts set in Stocks turn red, yen and gold inch higher in holiday-thinned trading OPEC cuts, but oil can’t stay afloat The world’s biggest oil producers finalized a historic deal to cut their production over the weekend, in an attempt to stabilize a market that has been ravaged by collapsing demand. After a few hiccups with Mexico, OPEC and its allies [..]

Technical Analysis – USDJPY maintains weak bias; broader trend is bearish since end March

Posted on April 13, 2020 at 7:11 am GMT

USDJPY is extending a downside move in the 4-hour chart, after a sidelines trend over the last days and it has dropped beneath the bearish cross within the 20- and 40-period simple moving averages (SMAs). Also, the price declined below the Ichimoku cloud, which is currently acting as strong resistance for the bulls. The technical indicators are indicating a bearish mode as the RSI is approaching the oversold zone and the stochastics are continuing their dive momentum below the 20 [..]

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