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<?xml-stylesheet href="http://xml.fxstreet.com/styles/rss2.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://xml.fxstreet.com/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://wwww.fxstreet.com//technical/market-view/market-thoughts/index.xml"><channel><title>Market Thoughts</title><description /><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/</link><image><title>Technical Analysis</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/</link><url>http://mediaserver.fxstreet.com/images/fxstreet-provider-logo1-en.gif</url></image><ttl>7</ttl><item><title>17/11/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-17.html</link><description>Today's Ben Bernenke's talking about the greenback was exceptional and caused a spike in the forex. Ben Bernenke has assured the monetary policy following of the strong dollar policy and caring of the inflation upside risks which can result from the dollar weakness versus the commodities and energy prices which can tackle the fed's stimulation package from another side. Ben Bernaneke has assured today that the price stability is very important to the fed as the unemployment and the current</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:15:21 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-17.html</guid></item><item><title>11/11/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-11.html</link><description>The greenback is still in a defensive position after its weak beginning this week as the market optimism could contain the market sentiment pushing the stocks up across the broad increasing the investors' risk appetite again putting pressure on the greenback which was negatively impacted by the G20 fin ministers ignorance of its recent weakness in their meeting during the weekend considering the new greenback feature as a funding currency of the carry trade investing transactions as its</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:58:08 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-11.html</guid></item><item><title>5/11/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-05.html</link><description>The Fed has decided yesterday that in spite of the recent improvement of the economic conditions and the better than expected growth rate of the third quarter, the economy is still in need of all of its easing stimulating policy steps further for storing confidence and improving the labor market conditions which can suffer further next year expecting the unemployment rate to get over 10%. The Fed's worries about the employment and this halting recovery were widely expected and there was no a</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:25:08 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-05.html</guid></item><item><title>2/11/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-02.html</link><description>As we have mentioned in the recent analyses, the greenback has found support from the stocks tumbling after its accomplished gains after the release of the US Q3 GDP first reading which came better than the market expectations of 3.2% at 3.5% last throusday as the blur consuming picture could contain the market sentiment again after the release of the weak personal spending of October which came at -.5% after 5 months of gains and the US consuming sentiment of UN. Michigan surevy which came at</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:17:17 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-11-02.html</guid></item><item><title>27/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-27.html</link><description>The equity market is still suffering from the investors selling pressure taking profits after better than expected earning reports of the third quarter specially after the weak US broad consuming confidence figure release of October which came down again to 47.7 from 53.1 and it was expected to be 54.3 which can underpin the greenback and persisting of the risk aversion sentiment. Dow was struggling to get above 10000 psycological level again while the greenback has found support across the</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:50:16 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-27.html</guid></item><item><title>22/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-22.html</link><description>The British pound has faced difficulties today to catch up with the single currency progress versus the greenback which has been supported today by the equities market falling and the fading of the investors' risk appetite momentum. The cable has fallen below 1.65 after an unchanged retail sales rate of September from August while the market was waiting for a rising by .5% m/m. so the yearly rate was below the market median expectations of 2.7% at 2.4% from 2.1% in August. &amp;nbsp; The greenback</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:05:06 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-22.html</guid></item><item><title>19/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-19.html</link><description>The declining of US consuming sentiment preliminary reading survey of University of Michigan in October to 69.4 from 73.5 in September affected negatively on the US stocks encouraging the investors to take some of their profits out of the equities market which supported the greenback to have a reprieve after a week of massive selling because of the improving of the investors risk appetite which have been underpinned by better than expected earning reports of third quarter which could store the</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:41:30 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-19.html</guid></item><item><title>16/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-16.html</link><description>In spite of the red opening of the US equities market, the US stocks could close in the green territory as the market optimism because of the third quarter better than expected earning reports which could contain the market sentiment again to lead Dow close its second consecutive session above 10000 at 1062 as the investors have seen in these data further stability in the financial market after the earning reports releases of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup in the recent few days plus</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:29:09 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-16.html</guid></item><item><title>14/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-14.html</link><description>The better than expected Intel earning results of the third quarter could increase the pressure on the greenback driving the investors' risk appetite up. These data have released after the closing of Wall Street and Dow future is trading up currently at 9876. As we have mentioned in our earlier report, the gold is still taking advantage from the bright outlook of the Australian dollar after last week surprising interest rate hike of the RBA by .25% to be 3.25%. The RBA has backed its decision</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:45:11 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-14.html</guid></item><item><title>8/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-08.html</link><description>The market has seen the ECB worries about the single currency strength in Trichet press conference after the ECB decision to leave the interest rate unchanged at 1% giving a stronger evaluation of the current conditions than last meeting when he said clearly that Prudence and caution are of the essence in the present situation. He has just referred to the need of the current easing steps of the ECB as there is no realized inflation pressure yet referring to the new signs of improving in the</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:00:50 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-08.html</guid></item><item><title>6/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-06.html</link><description>The greenback came under an accumulated pressure today with an independent newspaper article talking about a tending of the Persian gulf counties in a push from China, Russia and France to turn its sales of oil into other currencies and adopting a basket of currencies as a reserve instead of the greenback in evaluating their currencies for avoiding the US economic problems impacts which have dragged their economies down to a credit crisis has not been seen since great depression. The article</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:06:18 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-06.html</guid></item><item><title>5/10/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-05.html</link><description>The negative performance of the US labor market is still weighing on the recovery in an unexpected increased pace as we have seen last Friday from the US labor report of September which has shown rising of the US unemployment rate to 9.8% from 9.7% in August and a bigger than expected number of lost jobs out of the farming sector reached to 263k and this number was widely expected to be around 175k. The negative number has affected badly on the US stocks driving Dow further below 9500 to close</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:13:07 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-10-05.html</guid></item><item><title>29/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-29.html</link><description>The greenback has lost ground versus the British pound which has been bounced back up after the release of the CBI retail sales figure of September which came up in an unexpected way at 3 while the market was waiting for just -14 from -16 in August. The cable has formed a higher low at 1.5825 and it is now testing 1.60. The cable has made previously in the beginning of this week a new low below 1.58 at 1.577 after a dovish closing last week below 1.60. While the single currency is still</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:08:41 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-29.html</guid></item><item><title>28/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-28.html</link><description>The greenback could keep its gains at the closing of last week amid a profit taken wave in the equities markets. The greenback has driven the gold down breaking 1000$ psychological level triggering stop loses orders under it and the gold could close hardly at 988$. The pressure on the gold has started last week after the Fed's decision to keep the interest rate unchanged extending its MBS program to the 1Q of 2010 from 4Q 2009 as it has been downplaying the inflation upside risks in the near</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:45:26 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-28.html</guid></item><item><title>25/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-25.html</link><description>The British pound was under increasing pressure in the Japanese session falling to 1.5915 versus the greenback. The pressure on the British pound has started with the beginning of the European session when Marvin King referred to the use of a weaker British pound for increasing the exports and getting out of this recession. The dovish comments of King could contain the market sentiment again this week after last week BOE president Marvin king in front of the parliamentary committee when he</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:29:06 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-25.html</guid></item><item><title>23/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-23.html</link><description>The British pound has found support today from the release of the MPC recent meeting minutes which have shown that the decision of holding the buying bonds plan unchanged at 175 Bln Stg was unanimously an unanimous. The sterling was under pressure in the beginning of this week before finding support above 1.61 versus the greenback negatively impacted by the recent comments of the BOE president Marvin king in front of the parliamentary committee last week when he said that further deposit</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:34:24 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-23.html</guid></item><item><title>16/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-16.html</link><description>The sterling is still under the pressure of BOE president Marvin king in front of the parliamentary committee who said yesterday that further deposit interest rate cut might be a useful supplement. The market has sold the British pound off after this dovish comment which lowered the current market discounting of the interest rate outlook in UK. King was one among 3 opposing voting members of the MPC meeting in July of adding just 50bln Stg to the buying bonds plan suggesting adding 75bln Stg</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:27:03 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-16.html</guid></item><item><title>11/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-11.html</link><description>The MPC decision of keeping the interest rate unchanged at its historical low at .5% and holding their bond buying plans as it is at 175b with no further adding at this meeting waiting for the reaction of the recent added 50b Stg of the meeting of July when the voting was split 6 to 3 to add 50B instead of 75B and one of those three was Marvin king himself and those previous opposing members have referred to the possibility of public confidence damage in the recovery which can flatter it</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:10:19 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-11.html</guid></item><item><title>10/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-10.html</link><description>We are waiting today for the MPC interest rate decision. The recent meeting minutes release have shown that The last decision of adding further 50b Stg to the BOE &amp;nbsp;previous stimulation quantitive easing plan to make the gross of it 175b decision was not unanimously and the market has been shocked by 3 members of the MPC voting for adding 75B Stg instead of just 50B Stg and one of those three was Marvin king himself. These opposing members have referred to the possibility of public</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:41:30 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-10.html</guid></item><item><title>9/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-09.html</link><description>The greenback has been under pressure today after a long weekend in US because of the Labor Day in the beginning of this week. The greenback started the week in the defensive side because of the equities market gains and the demand for the higher yielding currencies for taking risk after better than expected economic data from US referring to a diminishing of the recession pressure and the increasing of the inflation outlook which can come accompanied with the recovery which could help the</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:47:21 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-09.html</guid></item><item><title>4/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-04.html</link><description>There was no major change in the currencies market from the US labor report which has shown a slight better than expected US non-farm payroll figure of August coming at -216k and the market was waiting for -233k revising July figure to -463k from -443k with a rise of the US unemployment rate to 9.7% in August from 9.4% in July and an increasing of the average hourly earnings by .06$ to be 18.65$. The data have show that the US labor market is still struggling looking for the demand which can</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:48:57 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-04.html</guid></item><item><title>3/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-03.html</link><description>The US Q2 productivity has been revised up today to 6.6% from 6.4% but the ADP employment figure of August has come worse than the market expectations of -250k at -298k and these data show that there is still worries about hiring but the current labor unit is high utilized meeting an increasing of the demand which can be hopeful for the recovery. the US stocks have not reacted positively to the data to continue the profit taken wave which was waited to be continued after the rally we have</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:22:30 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-03.html</guid></item><item><title>1/9/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-01.html</link><description>The currencies market is still trading in a mixed way in a very tight range since the end of last week with no major change of the market sentiment. The single currency is still struggling to stand over 1.43 after better than expected data came from the Euro zone last month started the release of EU GDP of the second quarter which came at just -.1% q/q and -4.6%y/y and it was expected to be -.6% q/q and -5.1% and it has continued with the uprising release of the germane ZEW of August which was</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:21 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-09-01.html</guid></item><item><title>26/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-26.html</link><description>The Single currency has peaked out today with the optimistic Germane IFO release of August this morning which was expected to be 88.6 and it has surprised the market by 90.5. The IFO expectations have gone up to 95 in August from just 90.4 in July and it was expected to be just 91.6 while the current conditions figure has increased to 86.1 and it was expected to be 86.1 which reflect the current market optimism of the coming future but the current conditions have not seen a major variety yet.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:04:45 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-26.html</guid></item><item><title>24/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-24.html</link><description>The Japanese yen was under pressure recently because of Ben Bernanke's optimistic speech by the end of last week about the worst of the credit crisis which is looking behind of us currently focusing on the current tackles in front of a reliable economic growth after the credit crisis. His comments have spurred a new wave of cheeriness driving the stocks markets up with the end of last week amid better than expected data from the housing market after the release of&amp;nbsp; July US existing homes</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:32:35 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-24.html</guid></item><item><title>FX Recommends - 20/8/2009 GBPUSD Summary</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-20.v02.html</link><description>The British pound came under pressure today after the release of July UK PSNB which have shown an unexpected increasing of the public net borrowing by 8 Bln Stg and the market was waiting for just 200 M. These data dampen the current national debit situation further putting pressure on the British pound which has found a breathing in today release of UK retail sales which rose by 3.3% y/y last month and they were expected to rise by just 2.7% after rising in June by 3.1%. The cable was already</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:39:50 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-20.v02.html</guid></item><item><title>20/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-20.html</link><description>The British pound came under pressure today after the release of UK PSNB which have shown an unexpected increasing of the public net borrowing by 8 Bln Stg and the market was waiting for just 200 M. These data dampen the current national debit situation further putting pressure on the British pound which has found a breathing in today release of UK retail sales which rose by 3.3% y/y last month and they were expected to rise by just 2.7% after rising in June by 3.1%. The cable was already</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:16:47 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-20.html</guid></item><item><title>19/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-19.html</link><description>The rise of August US MBA mortgage applications by 5.6 after declining in July by 3.5% could tackle the falling of the equities markets after a massive selling in the asian session for a while. The pressure on the equities market has started with last week dovish consuming data of US and the declines have continued this week before finding support yesterday after 2 days of massive selling in the stocks markets but this falling which has been triggered after the release of&amp;nbsp; August</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:15:43 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-19.html</guid></item><item><title>18/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-18.html</link><description>The weak US housing data of July could weigh on the US stocks which have started retracing some of its recent loses today as the US housing starts of July came down by .1% m/m after increasing by 3.6% in June and also the building permits came down by 1.8% in July after rising by 10% in June as the struggling consuming pace in US in the recent 2 months is still containing the current market sentiment putting pressure on the US indexes after the release of&amp;nbsp; August University of Michigan</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:46:19 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-18.html</guid></item><item><title>17/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment Update</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-17.html</link><description>The European stocks have opened down as expected following the US markets dovish closing after the continuous feeble consuming figures from US which do not suggest a solid rising from here calling for a profit taken wave can go on this week too. The worries about the consuming performance in US could contain the market sentiment again driving the US indexes down at the end of last week as August University of Michigan Consumer Confidence preliminary reading which was expected to get better to</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:48:22 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-17.html</guid></item><item><title>17/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-16.html</link><description>The worries about the consuming performance in US could contain the market sentiment again driving the US indexes down at the end of last week as August University of Michigan Consumer Confidence preliminary reading which was expected to get better to 68 from 66 in July has come down to 63 after the weak release of US retails sales of July which have come a day before at -1 broadly m/m and they were expected to be up by .3% and at -6% excluding the auto sales and they were expected to be up by</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:01:58 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-16.html</guid></item><item><title>13/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-13.html</link><description>The fed has looked yesterday unworried about the inflation outlook over the medium term as it does about the unemployement.but it has kept its 300$b with new adding valid till the end of october. The Greenback jumped after the Fed's assessment release which improved the US debit position and downplayed the recession risks which have soften in the recent months but it has given back most of its gains because of the US stocks indexes gains which have been added after the assessment. The Dow</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:00:22 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-13.html</guid></item><item><title>11/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-10.html</link><description>The greenback could hold most of its last week gains versus the japanese yen which was effected negatively by The better than expected release of the US labor report of July which has shown that the unemployement went down to 9.4$ and the the non-farm payrolls have lost just 247k in July and the market was waiting for 320k and the unemployement to go up to 9.7%. The remarked cheerful thing in this report and the cause of its improving too is the less than expected number of losing jobs of the</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:41:04 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-10.html</guid></item><item><title>7/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-07.html</link><description>The japanese yen came under strong pressure after today release of the US labor report which has shown that the unemployement went down to 9.4$ and the losing of just 247k of July non farm payroll and the market was waiting for 320k and the unemployement to go up to 9.7%. The remarked cheerful thing in this report and the cause of its improving too is the less than expected number of losing jobs of the manfacturing sector which lost just 52k and it was expected to lose 115k. The US Stocks</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:47:18 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-07.html</guid></item><item><title>6/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-06.html</link><description>The BOE has shocked the market today by extending its bond buying plan to 175 B str from just 125 b. the central bank said that the broad money growth remain weak and the recessional is deeper than previously thought.and the spare capacity of the exconomy has increased further. The bank seems worried about the economic recession more than what was widely expected and sees that the economy is still in need of further liquidity to move this current strict credit conditions helping the confidence</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:25:03 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-06.html</guid></item><item><title>3/8/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-03.html</link><description>The British pound has been pushed strongly today by the better than expected release of UK PMI manufacturing index of July which reach the expansion territory above 50 for the first time since March 2008 at 50.8 and it was expected to be just 47.7. The cable got over 1.68 after the data and there can be a close try for getting above 1.7 later this week amid the current improving of the investors' risk appetite which weighing on the greenback since the release of US Q2 GDP advanced reading</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:29:33 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-08-03.html</guid></item><item><title>28/7/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-28.html</link><description>The greenback is still under the pressure of the gains of the equities markets and the increases of the investors risk appetite joining this rally of the stocks. Dow could cross its year high last week closing above 9000 giving further momentum to this pulse wave which has been triggered just above 8000 since nearly 2 weeks by Meredith Whitney's upgrading of Goldman sacks stocks to buy from neutral expecting it go up 30% which means about 186$ per share which put pressure on the greenback</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:57:55 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-28.html</guid></item><item><title>23/7/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-23.html</link><description>The greenback was trading in a mixed way and in tight ranges in the recent few days unfazed of the new equities market gains which pushed Dow to a new high closing this week above 8900. The British pound could get back today most of its earlier loses versus the greenback trading above 1.65 currently while the Japanese yen came under accumulated pressure from the gains of the equities markets which trigger the investors risk appetite to sell the low yielding currencies for taking risk again</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:37 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-23.html</guid></item><item><title>22/7/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-22.html</link><description>The greenback was trading in a mixed way in the recent 2 days unfazed of the new equities market gains which pushed Dow to a new high closing yesterday above 8900. The greenback was creeping up versus the British pound while it was groveling versus the Japanese yen and in this same time the single currency which is waiting for the release of July germane IFO to go up to 86.5 from 85.9 in June next Friday is still trading around 1.42 versus the greenback as there were no significant data to</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:59:46 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-22.html</guid></item><item><title>20/7/2009 - The Current Market Sentiment</title><link>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-20.html</link><description>The gains in the equity market are still putting pressure on the greenback and the Japanese yen. The investors preferred taking risks buying stocks again after strong earning reports came out from the banking sector last week. The earning reports were strong but they were missing the operational profits of the real demand for loans. Most of the profits came from selling of assets which mean a contraction and from the stocks commissions which is not reflecting a real progress of the banking</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:50:06 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.fxstreet.com" /><category domain="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/">http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/</category><author>mail@fx-recommends.com (FX Recommends)</author><guid>http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/market-view/market-thoughts/2009-07-20.html</guid></item></channel></rss>