Varengold Bank Research Team
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Good morning from Hamburg and welcome to our latest Daily FX Report. The Germanwings co- pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps in March, killing all 150 people on board, practiced a descent on the previous flight, German newspaper Bild said on Tuesday.
Prosecutors believe 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and veered the plane into an early descent on a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24. Bild, citing sources close to France's BEA crash investigation agency, said an interim report that BEA was planning to publish on Wednesday would say that Lubitz had practiced reducing flight altitude on the outbound flight from Duesseldorf to Barcelona the same day as the crash.
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Market Review – Fundamental Perspective
Oil prices hit their highest for the year on Tuesday, aided by a disruption in Libyan crude exports, higher selling prices for Saudi oil and a weaker dollar that tends to inflate commodity prices. Since April's price rally of between 20 and 25 percent, oil bulls have been pushing the market up on the notion that a supply glut was easing from tightening world production despite continuous builds in U.S. crude stockpiles. U.S. crude settled up $1.47 at $60.40 a barrel, after hitting a 2015 high of $61.10. Crude prices have risen 50 percent in just over three months, after the June-to-January selloff hammered the market down to around $40 a barrel from last summer's highs above $100. OPEC meets next month to discuss production policy. Analysts see little chance it will restrain output as members battle for market share. U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Tuesday after a surprisingly wide March U.S. trade deficit raised concerns that the economy shrank in the first quarter. The $51.4 billion March deficit was the highest in nearly 6- 1/2 years and larger than the $45.2 billion the government assumed in its snapshot of first- quarter gross domestic product last week, suggesting the economy had contracted. With corporate earnings season winding down, U.S. investors are bracing for an April payroll report due on Friday that could give a hint of when the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin raising interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 142.2 points, or 0.79 percent, to end at 17,927.2. The S&P 500 lost 25.03 points, or 1.18 percent, to 2,089.46 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 77.60 points, or 1.55 percent, to end the session at 4,939.33.
Daily Technical Analysis
XAU/USD (Weekly)
Looking long-term, Gold has experienced a high volatility and the price moved to a low at around $1139. The level around $1158.82 is the next available support lelevel, as the price rebounded there several times. Since August 2014 it is moving in a range between $1303 and $1158.The CCI is showing that the the metal is moving under the Center line upward. The price touched once the highest Fibonacci resistance level (61.8).
Support & Resistance (Weekly)
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