⚠️ UK — Bank of England Interest Rate Decision at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 4.00%

🕒 Exp: 3.75%

🎯 Fact.: 3.75%

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⚠️ UK — MPC Official Bank Rate Votes at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 0-4-5

🕒 Exp: 0-5-4

🎯 Fact.: 0-5-4

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⚠️ UK — BOE Governor Andrew Bailey Speaks at 12:30 GMT

⚠️ EU — ECB Interest Rate Decision at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 2.15%

🕒 Exp: 2.15%

🎯 Fact.: 2.15

The dollar’s wings have been clipped

Christopher Waller's dovish rhetoric halted the bears' attack on EURUSD.

Slowing British inflation caused the pound to fall, while the Bank of Japan is preparing to raise rates.

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⚠️ USA — Unemployment Claims at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 237K

🕒 Exp: 225K

🎯 Fact.: 224K 📈

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⚠️ USA — Consumer Price Index at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 0.3% | 3.0%

🕒 Exp: | 3.1%

🎯 Fact.: 0.2% | 2.7% 📉

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⚠️ USA — Core CPI at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 0.2% | 3.0%

🕒 Exp: | 3.0%

🎯 Fact.: 0.2% | 2.6% 📉

Bitcoin is holding, while Solana is on the edge

The crypto market capitalisation fell to $2.91T (-2.4% for the day). The surge at the start of the US session on Wednesday only fuelled the bears, who drove the market down to $2.89T by the end of the day, retreating only slightly from these lows. Under intense pressure, the major old altcoins — Ethereum, XRP, and Solana — retreated to multi-month lows, losing about 4% over the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin is trading near $87K, roughly where it was the day before. A sharp jump in price above $90K hit a wall of selling, and now just above this round level is a significant short-term resistance line, which was support until 14 December. However, it is also difficult for the market to find reasons to go below the $85K level, from which the price has been rebounding since the beginning of the week. Additionally, it is worth noting that BTC is trading significantly above its late November lows of $80K, outperforming major altcoins.

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⚠️ EU — ECB Press Conference at 13:45 GMT

🇺🇸 US pre-market: Mostly positive 📈

In the technology sector, Apple (AAPL) shares are up +0.29%, and NVIDIA (NVDA) shares are up +2.02%.

In the communications services sector, Meta Platforms (META) shares are up 1.00% and Netflix (NFLX) shares are up 0.51%.

In the retail sector, Amazon (AMZN) shares are up 1.82% and Home Depot (HD) shares are up 1.21%.

The prevalence of growth among the largest companies and high activity in the technology and retail segments are helping to attract investment capital to US assets and supporting the strengthening of the dollar.

▶️ GBPUSD. Current situation #tradelikeapro #trading #tradingstrategy #tradingshorts #gbpusd #gbp

Today is Thursday, the 18th of December, and we'll be talking about the British pound market where the upward forecast is playing out very well.

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Palladium Wave Analysis – 18 December 2025

- Palladium broke multi-month resistance level 1600.00

- Likely to rise to resistance level 1745.00

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AUDJPY Wave Analysis – 18 December 2025

- AUDJPY reversed from support area

- Likely to rise to resistance level 104.25

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🗓 Economic Calendar at 2025/12/19 (GMT)

03:19 🇯🇵 ⚡️ Overnight Call Rate — Exp: 0.75% Actual: 0.75%

03:19 🇯🇵 ⚡️ Monetary Policy Statement

06:30 🇯🇵 ⚡️ BOJ Press Conference

07:00 🇬🇧 Retail Sales With Auto Fuel — Exp: 0.4% | 0.9% Actual: -0.1% | 0.6%

07:00 🇬🇧 Retail Sales Ex Auto Fuel — Exp: 0.2% | 1.6% Actual: -0.2% | 1.2%

10:30 🇷🇺 ⚡️ Key bank rate — Exp: 16.0% Actual: 16.0%

13:30 🇨🇦 Retail Sales — Exp: 0.0% | 0.0% Actual: -0.2% | -0.6%

15:00 🇺🇸 Existing Home Sales — Exp: 4.15M Actual: 4.13M | 0.5%

15:00 🇺🇸 UoM Consumer Sentiment — Exp: 53.3 Actual: 52.9


[Updated in real time]

EURUSD Wave Analysis – 18 December 2025

- EURUSD reversed from resistance area

- Likely to fall to support level 1.1600

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JPMorgan Chase Wave Analysis – 18 December 2025

JPMorgan Chase: ⬇️ Sell

- JPMorgan Chase reversed from resistance area

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⚠️ Japan — National Consumer Price Index at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 3.0%

🕒 Exp: 2.9%

🎯 Fact.: 2.9%

⚠️ Japan — Overnight Call Rate at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 0.50%

🕒 Exp: 0.75%

🎯 Fact.: 0.75%

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⚠️ Japan — BOJ Press Conference at 06:30 GMT

The crypto market is updating its lows but avoiding sharp changes

The crypto market set another trap for bulls yesterday afternoon, jumping to $3T and then falling to $2.85T. However, on Friday morning, it is once again flirting with buyers, trading at the same level of $2.95T, where it has remained since the beginning of the week.

On Thursday, Bitcoin replayed Wednesday's micro-drama, soaring towards $90K, only to soon fall below its previous local lows. As a result, by the end of the day, the intraday low had fallen back to $84K, which we last saw almost five weeks ago. However, on Friday morning, the price is back at the $87K level, around which it has been trading for the last four days.

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Central banks did not scare the dollar

• Central banks prefer to pause.

• The strengthening of the dollar prevented gold from reaching a record high.

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⚠️ Russia — Key bank rate at 03:00 GMT

✔️ Prev: 16.5%

🕒 Exp: 16.0%

🎯 Fact.: 16.0%