Dollar Eases On Profit-Taking Ahead Of An Important Week
Black Friday means financial markets will close earlier than usual today, but don’t despair as there is a lot to look forward to next week.
Black Friday means financial markets will close earlier than usual today, but don’t despair as there is a lot to look forward to next week.
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 U.S. economy only created new 151,000 jobs during the August vs. 180,000 jobs expected.
China’s economy grew by 6.7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2016 to reach 15.9 trillion yuan (US$2.4 trillion), according to the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBC) on Friday.
AUDUSD is in a strong uptrend on its short-term and long-term time frames but it appears that buyers need to regain energy before pushing the pair higher.
The ISM Manufacturing Index climbed in April to a level of 54.8 from 53.4 March, beating analysis expectations. In fact expectations were for decline to 53.0 levels. While the Price Paid Index held at 61.0 for the month.