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Nonfarm payrolls in the United States increased much less than expected in December, while the unemployment rate fell. The December employment data showed a 199,000 gain in nonfarm payrolls, significantly behind the 450,000 jobs growth projected in a Bloomberg survey, while November payrolls received a minor upward revision to a 249,000 increase. Private payrolls increased […]
Oil prices turned lower during trading on Friday, with Brent crude falling below $ 82, but it is still on track to achieve weekly gains, driven by supply concerns amid escalating unrest in Kazakhstan and outages in Libya. Investor sentiment was negatively affected, with the US economy adding 199,000 jobs less than analysts’ expectations in […]
The rush in the markets after the Fed minutes has somewhat subsided and investors are turning their eye on the release of US labor market data today. According to the consensus forecast, the economy added 400K jobs while wages rose 0.4% on a monthly basis. The ADP report released on Wednesday, which more than doubled […]
Trading Today’s NFP ReleaseGiven the built up hawkish expectations heading into today’s NFP release (you can find a fuller briefing here) it’s important to also consider what we might see play out should any of the data miss the mark. As I touch on quite regularly, when the market is looking so heavily in one […]
• AUS200 index reversed from round resistance level 1000.00 • Likely to fall to support level 910.00 AUS200 index recently reversed down with the daily Bearish Engulfing from the major resistance 7645.00 (earlier multi-month high from August) – which started the active wave (ii). The resistance zone near resistance 7645.00 was strengthened by the upper […]
• Platinum reversed from round resistance level 1000.00 • Likely to fall to support level 910.00 Platinum recently reversed down from the key round resistance level 1000.00 (which has been reversing the price from November). The resistance zone near the resistance level 1000.00 was strengthened by the upper daily Bollinger Band and by the 50% […]