The loonie fell against both the US dollar and the single European currency as the commodities dropped rapidly today. The CAD slid below the parity rate with its US counterpart for the first time since January 4. It also fell for the 3rd consecutive day against the euro. On the other hand, the currency managed to rise against the Japanese yen today. The Forex traders reacted to the falling crude oil prices, while the dovish expectations for the Canadian […]
Read moreThe New Zealand dollar halted the 4-day rally against its Australian counterpart today as the inflation data suggested no new rate hikes soon. The kiwi (a nickname for NZD) also fell against the US dollar and the Japanese yen as the traders turned to safety assets following some weak stock trading sessions on the global markets. New Zealand consumer inflation data came out yesterday at 23:45 GMT, showing a 2.3 percent growth […]
Read moreThe euro have failed to stand against the US dollar today when some important macroeconomic data was released. The first bearish wave was launched by the weekly employment data, but it was recovered in a correction, the second wave was launched by the housing data and it was more successful. EUR/USD is now trading near 1.3424. Initial jobless claims went down from 441k to 404k during the week ending […]
Read moreBuild 381 that was released by MetaQuotes for MetaTrader 5 yesterday had many useful changes, but it also messed up with the standard libraries, rendering some of the working expert advisors useless. The problem still remains as of build 384 and probably won’t be fixed in the next builds. The change #12 states: MQL5:Updated the Standard Library: the Type() methods of classes CDealInfo, CHistoryOrderInfo, COrderInfo and CPositionInfo are renamed to DealType(), OrderType() […]
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