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Forex Weekly Reports
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Dollar Index Falls to Support on Better Job Data - The dollar, while rising against the yen and Swiss franc, fell versus other key counterparts after better-thanexpected US employment data eased concern of a double-dip recession. For the week, all the major crosses except sterling rose against the greenback. Private-sector payrolls grew more than expected in August and job losses
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Weekly Economic and Financial Commentary - For a generation of Americans brought up on action heroes who face impossible challenges and then win the day, the results of fiscal and monetary stimulus are disappointing. Yet, the level of pessimism and talk of a double-dip strike us as too much of a bad thing. This week we
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The Weekly Bottom Line - We had some fairly positive data this week, starting with expansions in both personal income and consumption for the month of July. Then the Conference Board's consumer confidence index surprised market expectations on the upside and the ISM manufacturing index also fared better than expected underpinned by a surprisingly strong
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Forex Action Insight
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Weekly Review and Outlook: Strong Return of Risk Appetite, Dollar Index Heading Back to 80? - Dollar was broadly lower last week on return of risk appetite following some solid economic data from US and China. Non-farm payroll showed a solid 67k expansion in the private job market even though the headline number showed -54k contraction. Both figures were better than expectation of 40k and -105k
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EUR/USD Weekly Outlook - EUR/USD's recovery extend further to as high as 1.2896 last week but is still limited below mentioned 1.2921 resistance. Considering that it's near to this resistance, we'll stay neutral initially this week. As long as 1.2921 resistance holds, we'd still expect fall from 1.3330 to resume sooner or later. Below
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USD/JPY Weekly Outlook - USD/JPY stayed in choppy sideway trading last week as consolidations for 83.61 continued. Initial bias remains neutral this week and some more consolidations could still be seen. Note that above 85.89 will bring stronger rebound. But even in such case, upside upside should be limited well below 88.25 support turned
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