Author: Irit Rutenberg

By FX Empire.com The Light Sweet Crude markets absolutely exploded to the upside on Tuesday as traders continue to worry about the Iranian threat to close down the Strait of Hormuz. However, it is highly unlikely that the...

By FX Empire.com Natural gas markets tried to rally on Tuesday, but were sold off in the end to form another shooting star in this market. The candle shows up at the bottom of a long bearish move, and this spells trouble for the...

By FX Empire.com Gold markets shot straight up during the Tuesday session as the “risk on” trade came back for the first full trading day of the year. The market had been sold off far too much lately, and the $1,500...

By FX Empire.com The first trading day of 2012 witnessed better than expected data from China, UK, Switzerland, Germany and USA, noting that investors’ appetite was boosted toward high yielding assets. In China the...

By FX Empire.com The EUR/CHF pair gained yesterday after the cheerful data from Europe and the successful bond auction inFrance, where the euro gained strength after German unemployment retreated to 6.8% from 6.9%. However,...

By FX Empire.com Yesterday, the EUR/USD pair gained some strength and was able to incline above the psychological level of 1.3000 after the flow of upbeat fundamentals from the euro area region, in addition to the optimism that...

By FX Empire.com On Tuesday, the pair continued its upside direction for the third day before the release of U.S. ISM manufacturing data and minutes of the FOMC meeting as the improvement in the sentiment, following the release...

By FX Empire.com On Tuesday, the pair continued its downside drop for the fourth day before the release of U.S. ISM manufacturing data as the improvement in the sentiment, following the release of upbeat data from major...

By FX Empire.com The USD/JPY pair dropped further early Tuesday to reach its lowest level in seven weeks, where the weak dollar helped the Japanese yen to record more gains and to increase pressure on dollar after risk appetite...

By FX Empire.com The NZD/USD pair soared to its highest level in almost a month, where the weak US dollar helped the Kiwi to cover most of its previous losses, as the risk appetite returned to the financial market with the...