<p>There are a lot of transitions that are going on from a fundamental and technical perspective..

In this weekend video, Greg Michalowski of Forexlive, talks about the transitions that are occurring in the economy, politics and in the markets in his weekend Forex technical report.

Set yourself up to understand the dynamics in play and how you might benefit in your trading this week in this state of transition. </p>

This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.

<p>Turkey’s state pipeline operator Botas issued a statement on Saturday. Says that a fault on the Iranian network side had decreased the volume of gas piped to Turkey as of January 1. </p><p>Turkish authorities have requested Iran fix the issue as quickly as feasible.</p><p> Iran is the second-largest gas supplier to Turkey after Russia.</p><p>Weirdly, back in January of 2022, i.e this time last year, a leak halted Iranian exports of gas to Turkey also. Turkey cut power supply to the industrial sector that time. </p>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

<p>Information posted to the People’s Bank of China website over the weekend reported it increased its holdings of gold by 30 tonnes in December.</p><ul><li> this boosts the country’s stash of gold to 2,010 tonnes</li><li>it follows November’s buying of 32 tonnes</li></ul><p>The PBOC’s previously reported inflow of gold was in September of 2019 and, before that, October 2016. The renewed bout of large purchasing is being speculated as a response to heightened geopolitical risk, and perhaps more to come. </p><p>In other info the PBOC reported the country’s foreign exchange reserves at the end of December increased by around $11 billion from end-November and now total $3.12 trillion.</p>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.