{"id":83821,"date":"2016-01-15T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=83821"},"modified":"2016-01-15T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:22:22","slug":"yen-gold-back-up-oil-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2016\/01\/yen-gold-back-up-oil-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Yen, gold back up, oil struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-384584279\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">January 15, 2016<\/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>After a brief pick up in risk appetite, it appeared to have waned in to the Asian session on Friday. This helped the safe havens gain, such as the Japanese currency and gold.<\/p>\n<p>The yen was 0.1 per cent stronger this morning at Y117.95 per dollar. Japanese benchmark 10 year government bonds \u2013 another popular haven \u2013 were slightly firmer on Friday with yields, which move opposite to price, down 0.2 basis points to 0.242 per cent. Yields fell to a record low 0.197 per cent during volatile Asian trading on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gold crept less than 0.1 per cent higher to $1,078.79 an ounce, after dropping 1.4 per cent on Thursday as investors retreated from haven assets.<\/p>\n<p>The worst-performing currencies this morning were the Australian and New Zealand dollars, both down 0.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was struggling on Friday to hold on to its overnight rebound, slipping 0.2 per cent to $30.82. The international benchmark closed higher by 2.4 per cent on Thursday in New York, ending an eight-day losing streak that was its equal third-longest on record, according to daily data back to 1988. West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, was down 1.1 per cent at $30.85.<\/p><div id=\"inves-2147879011\" 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>&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 After a brief pick up in risk appetite, it appeared to have waned in to the Asian session on Friday. This helped the safe havens gain, such as the Japanese currency and gold. The yen was 0.1 per cent stronger this morning at Y117.95 per dollar. 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