Forex news for North American trading Thursday 7 May 2015

  • Non-farm payrolls preview: Jobs numbers, by the numbers
  • Technical analysis: Pain coming in the oil patch
  • US March consumer credit $20.5B vs $15.8B expected
  • Trends in US employment statistics
  • ECB's Mersch: Eurozone unemployment is at a turnaround point
  • Goldman Sachs sees upside risks in nonfarm payrolls despite soft ADP
  • Forex technical analysis: USDJPY approaches a resistance target
  • UK election 2015: A word from our sponsors
  • Canadian dollar slumps on oil, election worries
  • Talks can go down to the wire says Varoufakis
  • Forex technical analysis: AUDUSD reaches the comfort zone. What is it?
  • A mixed day for European stocks at the close
  • Forex technical analysis: USDJPY moves back above the 200 hour MA
  • UK election 2015: Trading the election and levels to watch
  • Forex technical analysis: GBPUSD bulls and bears gather together
  • Schaeuble plays down Greek meeting on Monday
  • US stocks open pretty flat
  • Forex technical analysis: EURUSD falls to new day lows after stronger initial claims, but rebounds
  • It's the same winner in every UK election
  • Fed's Evans also expecting Q2 rebound
  • US initial jobless claims 265k vs 278k exp
  • Canada March building permits +11.6% vs +2.5% expected
  • More from Varoufakis: Germany need to come to terms with the failure of the previous Greek debt programme
  • Varoufakis says much progress is being made on talks with EU
  • More warnings for the US jobs market as US Challenger layoffs rise in April

Just the headlines today!

Adam told me he had to rush out the door to go and vote in the UK election. Look, I know I am just a dumb Aussie, but I'm pretty sure Canada isn't in the UK. Ah well. So, anyway, I gathered the headlines from the session if you want a quick overview. I bolded the ones that caught my eye.