{"id":83171,"date":"2015-12-31T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T09:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=83171"},"modified":"2015-12-31T04:14:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T09:14:26","slug":"quiet-last-trading-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2015\/12\/quiet-last-trading-day-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet last trading day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-3037662624\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">December 31, 2015<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currency markets were very quiet on the last trading day of the year in Asia. Tokyo was closed so this added to the low trading volumes.<\/p>\n<p>USD\/JPY opened in Asia at 120.53 after another dull US session with a narrow range. During the Asian morning the range was 120.42\/56. The pair has moved within about 50 pips this week. It is unlikely that it would move outside recent ranges on the last trading day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>EUR\/USD opened in Asia at 1.0931 after a choppy US session. Support at the key 1.0900 level seems to have held well this week. The pair has traded a range of 1.0898 and 1.0942 this week.<\/p>\n<p>GBP\/USD barely moved after opening at 1.4811 and rose to 1.4827.<\/p>\n<p>AUD\/USD opened in Asia at 0.7288 after failing at 0.7303 for second day in a row. It reached a high of 0.7308.<\/p><div id=\"inves-1149816089\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>NZD\/USD saw small movements from a session low of 0.6830 to 0.6854.<\/p>\n<p>In equity markets, the Tokyo Nikkei was closed today. The Shanghai Composite was flat and the Australian ASX was minus 0.11% in late morning trading.<\/p>\n<p>The European session is expected to be quiet, with no data and Germany being on holiday. The US session will see the release of US jobless claims.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Forex-Time-Logo.png\" alt=\"Forex-Time-Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"90\" \/><strong>Article by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForexTime Ltd (FXTM)<\/strong> is an award winning international online forex broker regulated by CySEC 185\/12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forextime.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.forextime.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by ForexTime Currency markets were very quiet on the last trading day of the year in Asia. Tokyo was closed so this added to the low trading volumes. USD\/JPY opened in Asia at 120.53 after another dull US session with a narrow range. During the Asian morning the range was 120.42\/56. The pair has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83176,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83171\/revisions\/83176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}