US Retail Sales and Industrial Production to Conclude the Week

WTI oil price hits new seven-week high on Friday, keeping firm tone and on course for the second consecutive weekly gain. Improving demand was signaled by fall in the US fuel inventories, as summer driving season in the world’s biggest oil consumer starts, while growing tensions in the Middle East revive supply fears, with both […]

Next week’s ECB meeting is set to see few, if any, new policy signals, given the limited new information that has been released since the December meeting. We expect President Lagarde to confirm that the next policy rate change is most likely a cut, which may happen in summer. It remains to be seen whether […]

Gold manages to halt the pullback from its recent record high But rebound meets strong resistance at important ascending trendline Momentum indicators suggest that positive momentum is fading Gold had been in a steep uptrend since November 10, recording a fresh all-time high of 2,144 before experiencing a solid correction. Although the bulls attempted to erase this […]