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"More needs to be achieved to help banks lend to new buyers, as a strong improvement in first-time buyer lending is the crucial catalyst for a full market recovery "- >>

"The downside risk from sequestration is proving much smaller than some had feared"- Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC The closely-watched labour market is showing signs of stabilization >>

"The slower growth is not really an issue of a big change in the fundamentals" - Andrew Burns, the lead author of the reportIn its latest assessment of the global >>

The support at 0.9191 (weekly S1) was able to postpone the decline, but we remain bearish on the pair. >>

The initial test of 94.71/47, the support area mainly formed by the Feb 11 high, did not lead to an immediate recovery, implying that the bearish momentum is not exhausted >>

Cable's deceleration ahead of 1.5750/41 is a natural development of the rally, being that this level has played a major role throughout the last years. >>

EUR/USD carries on with its recovery from the April low at 1.2745. At the moment the currency pair is struggling at the rising resistance line, but after a short correction >>

The Japan's Yen strengthened against almost all of its most-traded peers, set for a weekly rise versus all 16, the currency is headed for a fourth weekly advance in the >>

NZD/USD is behaving dangerously for the bears near the down-trend resistance line that was meant to curb kiwi's strength. >>

After dipping beneath the 55 and 100-day SMAs USD/CAD returned to 1.0213 and confirmed it as the resistance. >>

AUD/USD has already passed through 0.9534, but there is more supply at 0.9580 that is to obstruct price's further growth. >>

We were waiting for EUR/JPY's bearish correction to be limited by the rising trend-line, namely at 127.71/41; nonetheless, it seems that a considerably deeper retracement will precede resmption of the >>

U.K. shares retreated for a fourth straight day as the FTSE 100 Index fell to more than two-month low on worries that the Federal Reserves could taper the stimulus programme. >>

Chinese shares declined following a three-day holiday, pushing the benchmark index to the lowest level in six months, after government data indicated industrial output and overseas sales trailed economists expectations. >>

Italian three-year debt costs advanced to the highest level since March on Thursday, after worries that the Fed could soon scale back its stimulus which curtails demand for riskier assets. >>