Morning Insights 20th January

Simon Alagbe

Analyst


Instrument: OIL (Brent)

Technical Analysis

Bearish Preference: Sell position is envisaged if price trades below 56.16 with take profit at 55.29

Bullish Preference: Buy position is envisaged if price trades above 56.55 with take profit at 57.29

Fundamentals:

No major economic data with bearing on the commodity

Comment: The sentiment in the market is mixed with tighter restrictions in Germany in order to fight COVID-19 weighing on Oil demand while the hopes of increased fiscal stimulus from the Biden administration is creating a sense of faster recovery route to businesses.




Instrument: EURUSD

Technical Analysis:

Bearish Preference: Sell position is envisaged if price trades below 1.21179 with take profit at 1.21079.

Bullish Preference: Buy position is envisaged if price trades above 1.21669 with take profit at 1.21769.

Fundamentals:

President Biden Speaks (USD) 

Comments: The dollar weakened in early European trade Wednesday, with risk sentiment on the rise after comments Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's nominee for Treasury Secretary, pointed towards substantial additional fiscal spending to stimulate the U.S. economy. Yellen appeared Tuesday in front of the Senate Finance Committee as part of her confirmation hearing, and the former Federal Reserve had urged Congress to “act big” on COVID-19 relief.




Instrument: US30

Technical Analysis:

Bearish Preference: Sell position is envisaged if price trades below 30757 with take profit at 30661.

Bullish Preference: Buy position is envisaged if price trades above 30960 with take profit at 31043.

Fundamentals:

USD President Biden Speaks

Comments: Former Vice President,  Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th U.S. president later today, and his to-do-lists will run extraordinarily long as he attempts to drag the country out of the worst pandemic in a century and mend fractures in American politics. But by at least one measure, Biden supporters might point to the incoming president’s bullish impact on the stock market since the Nov. 3 election as one early accomplishment, even if it’s hard to pin all the recent gains on the change in regime from Donald Trump to Biden.


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