AUDUSD Forecast November 8, 2016, Technical Analysis
The AUDUSD pair initially fell on Monday but then found buyers to push the market higher.
The AUDUSD pair initially fell on Monday but then found buyers to push the market higher.
The Australian dollar initially fell during the day on Wednesday, but turned around to form a relatively supportive looking candle.
Crude oil, like many other commodities and markets are present, continues to remain rangebound with the bullish momentum of earlier in the month now waning.
At the start of a week full of US earnings, important economic data and a couple of central bank meetings, risk is somewhat off the menu. Equities, copper and, to a lesser degree, oil prices were all trading lower at the time of this writing.
The rally for copper finally came to an abrupt halt yesterday as weak economic trade data news from China dealt the base metal a mortal blow, sending it plunging lower and closing the session with the wide spread down candle on very high volume, and signalling the end to the rally of September.
The dollar has staged a broad-based rally today, which caused the GBP/USD to tumble to a new 31-year low and the EUR/USD momentarily dipped below its 200-day moving average once again.
The metronomic price action for gold is continuing to play out once again on the daily chart, with the rally of late September starting to wane once again, as the precious metal descends once more to test the all important technical support area in the $1308 per ounce region in early trading.
The AUDUSD pair broke higher during the course of the session on Monday, but gave back more than half of the gains from the early part of the session.
Gold and silver have started the new trading week, month and quarter on the back foot today. At the time of this writing, gold was trading at $1312 and silver was below $19.00 per troy ounce once again.
Crude prices jumped in reaction to the latest weekly US crude stockpiles data but then quickly went into reverse gear, before bounce back once again.