Market News Briefing – 13:00 (GMT+1)

News from the USA

The future contracts on Wall Street show a slight price declines of around 0.1% in the leading indices.
Yesterday the trading day closed with sharp gains.

Apple shares rising by 0.5% before the opening of the trading day, after yesterday it jumped by 3.7% following an exposure about Berkshire Hathaway holding company of the billionaire Warren Buffett, which acquired 9.8 million shares of consumer electronics giant in the first quarter.

Trading opportunity 09:00 (GMT+1)

USD/JPY

The main trend of the pair is a downtrend, as seen on a daily chart.

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In the last two weeks the pair made his way to re-test a resistance diagonal line.
The current resistance level is 109.50, next to resistance line.

What we are waiting for?
First we are waiting to see that the pair will stop at this resistance area, then we’ll be waiting for a bearish pattern, it can be on lower time frames of 4 hour or an hour chart.
Another option is to see the pair crossing above the resistance line and then dropping back below it, this kind of a false break will be a good entry signal as well.

Market News Briefing – 08:30 (GMT+1)

Disappointing news from China:

Line of disappointing economic news published in China during the weekend,and they confirmed that the world’s second-largest economy is experiencing a slowdown.
The industrial output, investment and the retail sales in April, all rose by less than expected.

Industrial output increased in the past month by 6% on an annualized basis, compared to a forecasts of 6.5% and an increase of 6.8% in March.

Investments in fixed assets were up by 10.5% on an annualized basis, compared with expectations to a rise of 10.9% and 10.7% in the first quarter of this year.

The retail sales slowed to a level of 10.1%, against an expectation of a sharp rise in of 10.5%.