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USDCAD
In this section, you will find important USDCAD news, actionable trading ideas, and a live USDCAD chart to help you understand how the Canadian Dollar trades.
USDCAD also is known as Loonie amongst Forex traders, is the ticker symbol in FX markets that represents how many Canadian dollars you can buy with one US dollar. USDCAD is one of the major FX pairs with liquidity and narrow spreads. USDCAD is a commodity pair because the Canadian economy is a natural resources export economy. The other commodity pairs are AUDUSD and NZDUSD. Important role to the value of USDCAD plays the price of oil, due to large trading volumes of oil between the two countries. Other factors that affect the Loonie exchange rate are interest rates, unemployment, economic growth, and public deficit.
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USDCAD slumps after another dismal U.S. initial jobless claims. U.S. Initial Jobless Claims came in at 3169K, topping the forecasts of 3000K on May 1, the previous week reading was at 3.839K.
The USDCAD pair rose as the market reacted to the latest private sector job report by Automatic Data Processor (ADP)
The USDCAD pair declined today as the market reacted to the trade data from the US and Canada. The pair...
The USD/CAD rose by more than 30 basis points as traders reacted to the CoT report released on Friday, the falling crude oil prices, and the rising number of coronavirus cases.
USDCAD is hovering around the unchanged level as investors receiving negative economic news from the USA and Canada. Canadian dollar...
The USD/CAD pair declined in overnight trading as the market reacted to positive crude oil-related news. The Canadian dollar also gained in reaction to the relatively dovish interest rates decision by the Federal Reserve.
USDCAD is under selling pressure for the third consecutive session making fresh two week lows. The contraction in U.S. GDP was worse than analysts estimates.
The USD/CAD pair declined sharply as traders ignored the slumping crude oil prices and focused the weaker dollar.
USDCAD retreat as the employment data out from the U.S. shows the coronavirus crisis impact. The numbers indicate a contraction much worse than the global financial crisis.