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Japanese Yen Gains Likely to be Short-Lived on Fading Fed QE Bets

Fundamental Forecast for the Japanese Yen: Bearish Bank of Japan Fails to Sink Yen With Stimulus Expansion Speculative Sentiment Points to Near-Term Yen Strength Looking to Sell Yen vs. Dollar Following Trend Line Break The Japanese Yen outperformed last week, rising against all of its major counterparts. Interestingly, the advance came even as the Bank of Japan expanded policy easing efforts. While cumulative monetary expansion amounted to just ¥5 trillion

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April Consumer Confidence Hits 14-month High, USD Pares Loss

THE TAKEAWAY: April U. of Michigan Confidence Final Index Rose to 76.4 > Americans Appeared Optimistic about the State of the Economy> USD Pares Loss vs. Most of its Major Peers Confidence among U.S. consumers hit fourteen-month high in April, reflecting their optimism about the prospective strength of the economy and rising expectations on business conditions, employment and income. The Thomson Reuters/ University of Michigan final index mounted to 75.3

Breaking News - Consumer Sentiment for April

Consumer Sentiment for April slightly better than expected

Euro Shrugs Off Early Session Declines; Sights Set on Key 1.3300 Barrier

Euro bounces by key hourly support German GfK softer than expected Swiss KOF exceeds consensus estimates S&P downgrades Spain two notches to BBB PM Rajoy comments contribute to early risk off price action Yen sees whipsaw trade post new BOJ measures SNB back in focus; keeping an eye on EUR/CHF Well, it certainly didn’t take the markets long to shrug off the latest S&P Spain downgrade, downbeat comments from the

US Dollar Expected to Rise vs Euro, Waiting for Entry to Sell Yen

Major Currencies vs US Dollar (% change week-to-date) EURUSD: Holding Short Below Key Trend Line USDJPY: Waiting for Long Entry Opportunity GBPUSD: Year-Old Trend Line Barrier in Sight

U.S. GDP Disappoints

The Uof Economic Analysis released its Q1 report.

Crude Spikes Through Channel and Fails….Again

Daily Bars Prepared by Jamie Saettele, CMT As long as price is below 10546 (early month high), look lower towards the December and/or February lows at 94/96. Reward/risk is highly favorable against the April high. Interim support is 10310 and focus is on the bottom of the range at 10180. Bottom Line (next 5 days) – lower

EURUSD FXE

DailyBars Prepared by Jamie Saettele, CMT The EURUSD rally failed between former supports at 13250 and 13275. The level is reinforced by the underside of former trendline support as well. Nothing has changed from a trend standpoint as the rally from 12994 is slow, overlapping, and shows no impulsive characteristics. 13170 and 13104 are supports for Friday. Bottom Line (next 5 days): topped and lower?

Commodity Settlement Report

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