Boby Michael

Precious metals weakened on Tuesday as dollar strengthened broadly on account of risk aversion in global markets.

Indian rupee falls to fresh multi-week lows against the US dollar, pound, euro and yen.

UK consumer price and factory gate inflation data and Germany ZEW survey are watched ahead of US CPI inflation and housing starts.

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Weekly chart still pictures the reversal from the 2011 record and the yellow metal has a medium-term target near $1040 in it.

Week to June 20 marked by FOMC policy decision and policy meeting minutes from BoE, RBA and BoJ.

Inflation data and BoE minutes next week will be carefully watched to see if indications substantiate what Carney said.

Indian rupee fell to a one-month low on Friday as rising oil supply concerns threatened to increase Asia's third largest economy's import bills.

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British pound rallies to over one-month high after Bank of England governor Mark Carney signalled early rate hike.

Gold and silver rallied to 2-week highs on Thursday helped by risk aversion and physical demand while platinum and palladium slipped.

Football tourists in Brazil will buy fewer reals with their dollar bills than they could have bought in January.

NZD/USD has resistance at 0.8679 and then at 0.8781, the 9 May peak, ahead of the all-time high at 0.8844 hit on 5 June 2011.

Charts suggest broad uptrend in GBP/USD and downtrend in EUR/USD to continue.

Sterling rallied on the better-than-expected unemployment data on Wednesday but the move was within its recent short-term trends.

In NZD/USD, the break above the critical 0.8546 resistance has likely opened doors to 0.8592 and then 0.8638.

Dollar continues its broad rally helped by euro's weakness but gains in the yen limit the greenback's upside move. Sterling bounces back after dropping in Asian trade.

Euro lost ground across the board on Tuesday amid speculation the European Central Bank will be forced to increase its stimulus measures.

Crude oil prices rose Tuesday helped by higher than expected China inflation that bolstered the demand outlook for the commodity.

Consumer price inflation rose to a four-month high in China in May while producer price deflation came in lower than expected.

Gains in gold over last few days could not push it out of a broader downtrend of metal.

Polish zloty rallied sharply last week helped by European Central Bank's stimulus measures.

Monday started with risky assets trading higher in Asia, pushing dollar lower across the board.

Bounce back in gold late last week has not formed a trend yet.

The data calendar for next week is not so heavy with US and Eurozone having nothing major to wait for. GDP estimate by NIESR and ILO unemployment rate for UK are important for that economy while rate decisions in Japan and New Zealand are unlikely to surprise markets. China CPI is the most important from Asia.

The US dollar traded choppy after the jobs report on Friday but stayed firm into the later hours of the day given the lower-than-expected payroll additions in May.

The people of UK expect the price rise to slow down in the years ahead, according to a BoE survey.

US dollar moved sideways in narrow ranges on Friday in Asia and remained so in early Europe.

The European Central Bank on Thursday cut its main refinancing rate by 10 basis points to 0.15% and the new rate for overnight deposits is -0.1%.