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This Week: Fed, BOE decisions & gold in focus

05 May 10.30

This Week: Fed, BOE decisions & gold in focus

With Big Tech earnings behind us, attention shifts to key central bank decisions and market-moving testimony in the US and UK. Traders eye gold, stocks, and GBP as volatility looms from Fed signals, BOE cuts, and tariff-driven sentiment.

Week Ahead

XAUUSD

FOMC

GBPUSD

02 May 12.17

Brent rebound faces NFP, OPEC+ test

Brent bulls once again pulled prices out of sub-$60/bbl waters, having previously notched a 4-year low in early-April. However, the imminent US jobs report and Monday's OPEC+ supply hike decision should have a major say whether Brent can stay above that psychologically-important price level.

Brent

Oil

OPEC+

President Trump

Iran. tariff

output hike

LATEST ANALYSIS

09 FEB

08:15

Brent soars back above $80

Oil bulls were given a boost by the diminishing prospects of a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Here are 3 fundamental factors that can keep Brent on a sustained uptrend.

08 FEB

13:20

Disney to climb above $100?

Disney stock surging on better-than-expected earnings and newly announced partnerships with Epic Games, FOX, Warner Bros. and TNT.

Disney Earnings

USDCAD is testing key resistance level at 200-period SMA

07 FEB

10:28

USDCAD is testing key resistance level at 200-period SMA

A break below this important level could drag the pair lower towards potential support levels: (1) 21-period SMA (1.345324) and (2) 23.6 (1.34572) Fibonacci level.

Canadian Dollar CAD USDCAD technicals

06 FEB

13:09

Bitcoin consolidates near 50-period SMA

BTCUSD is currently trading between 50 and 21-period SMAs as investors assess the possibility that the Fed will begin to lower interest rates. Higher-for-longer rates may affect investor's appetite for riskier assets such as BTC.

crypto Bitcoin ETF

This Week: AUDUSD slightly rebounds towards 100-period SMA

05 FEB

09:51

This Week: AUDUSD slightly rebounds towards 100-period SMA

With the Aussie still reeling from year-to-date declines against most of its G10 peers (except JPY), bouts of risk-off sentiment may also keep AUD bears in control this week.

AUDUSD Aussie RBA

02 FEB

12:05

Brent tumbles back below $80

The benchmark for global oil prices is now testing immediate support around its 21-day and 50-day simple moving averages, along with the rising trendline from its mid-December trough. Brent bulls need major fundamental catalysts to be restored back above $80/bbl.

09 Feb

08:15

Brent soars back above $80

Oil bulls were given a boost by the diminishing prospects of a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Here are 3 fundamental factors that can keep Brent ...

08 Feb

13:20

Disney to climb above $100?

Disney stock surging on better-than-expected earnings and newly announced partnerships with Epic Games, FOX, Warner Bros. and TNT....

Disney

Earnings

07 Feb

10:28

USDCAD is testing key resistance level at 200-period SMA

A break below this important level could drag the pair lower towards potential support levels: (1) 21-period SMA (1.345324) and (2) 23.6 (1.34572) Fib...

Canadian Dollar

CAD

USDCAD

technicals

06 Feb

13:09

Bitcoin consolidates near 50-period SMA

BTCUSD is currently trading between 50 and 21-period SMAs as investors assess the possibility that the Fed will begin to lower interest rates. Higher-...

crypto

Bitcoin

ETF

05 Feb

09:51

This Week: AUDUSD slightly rebounds towards 100-period SMA

With the Aussie still reeling from year-to-date declines against most of its G10 peers (except JPY), bouts of risk-off sentiment may also keep AUD bea...

AUDUSD

Aussie

RBA

02 Feb

12:05

Brent tumbles back below $80

The benchmark for global oil prices is now testing immediate support around its 21-day and 50-day simple moving averages, along with the rising trendl...