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What happened?
Fitch has recently (29th of November) published a report warning that the Eurozone could end up in a Japanese-style stagnation. Weak economic growth, coupled with low inflation could lead the bloc to follow the forbidden path of Japan...
Continuation pattern in play
US retail sales ahead Let's talk about the US Dollar. The US Economy has been adding job at a better than expected rate, unemployment is at 49-year-low and even though the US GDP growth has...
What happened?
On July the 31st, as widely awaited by most traders, investors, and markets enthusiasts, the Fed has announced its interest rate decision. As expected by most (however, not all), it cut the federal funds rate by 25 basis...
What’s up?
The Turkish lira has weakened versus the US dollar on Monday. USD/TRY keeps trading with great volatility after having a rollercoaster week. The currency suffered after a local election which took place in Turkey on Sunday.
Why is it...
EUR/USD bounced from the 123.6% after Draghi
1.1250 is previous structure base
$DXY holding at 97.30 After Mario Draghi said last week that the ECB expected rates to remain at record low levels at least through the end of 2019 the EUR flushed and...
US-CHINA trade talks in G20 summit still uncertain
US new home sales and manufacturing PMI missed expectations
DXY hits bounces from a strong area of supply The Trump administration announced that it's planning more restrictions on US tech exports...
Forex is trading one currency against another. Many external factors move currencies, like interest rates and geopolitics. Because Forex does not involve owning the underlying asset but simply taking a position on its price movement, it's much cheaper to...
Introduction
Since the Great Recession, central banks have taken both conventional and unconventional (Quantitative Easing) monetary policy measures to fight the economic slowdown and maneuver the economy out of a recession. Key central bank interest rates were slashed, and new...
112.00 sees bearish pressure
$DXY trading under 97.00 After soaring for 110 pips the USD/JPY sees bearish pressure again at 112.00 and 113% retracement of the last leg down. It wasn't a surprise though, this level was tested fiercely...
What happened?
For decades, Switzerland had one of the lowest interest rates in the world. Since interest rates in Poland and many other Central/Eastern European countries were much higher, this encouraged borrowers to take out Swiss franc-denominated mortgage loans that...
Earlier this week the Federal Reserve, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Canada all cut rates by 0.5 percent to face the repercussion of the coronavirus in the markets. Let's talk first about how this pandemic...
Today, the European Central Bank announced what many had been waiting for since 2017: it announced the details behind the bank's plan for stimulus exit. The current program is set to expire in September and runs at 30 Billion Euros...
Financial freedom and prosperity is very hard to achieve. It’s so hard that the majority of people never even achieve it. In fact, over 60% of the American population have under $1000 in savings and over 50% of the...
Risk of hard Brexit increases
Deadline: October 31st On July 24th, 2019 the new Prime Minister of the U.K. took office and within 24 hours of assuming the premiership he replaced more than half of Theresa May's cabinet with hardline Brexiteers...
The DXY broke with a long term bull structure
FOMC delivers a very dovish statement
Trade war with China takes a toll at the US economy The US Dollar index just broke with a very important long term bullish...
(Opinion) Yesterday Theresa May´s Brexit deal suffered another big defeat in Parliament losing by a margin of 149 votes (391 to 242). After the vote PM may gave a speech on which a few important things were said: She confirmed...
Bullish channel still intact
Bearish flag has broken
First POC in sight Gold has broken a bear flag after topping and testing at the 1318 level which is also the 61.8% of the last leg down. Now that we...
What happened?
As we have covered in our previous article, the Fed has recently (July 31st) cut the interest rates by 0.25 percentage points (however, not as dovish as President Trump would have liked). The very next day (August 1st)...
What happened?
Mario Draghi has recently come out to call for a unified fiscal stimulus effort by the Eurozone members. So did the newly elected ECB president Christine Lagarde. As Lagarde takes over on the December 12th ECB meeting, this...
What happened?
On October 16th the IMF held a conference called "Can Central Banks Fight Climate Change?". During the conference, panelists discussed how central banks can adjust their regulatory and monetary policy frameworks to deal with the uncertainties associated with...
What's happening with the Fed?
On June 19th, 2019 as expected by most market participants, the Federal Reserve has decided to leave rates unchanged. However, as we have noted in our previous article, the Fed has changed their language, adding...
Hello traders! Last week we had great results in our forex channel finishing up the week 668 pips in the bank and one of our best trades was a short position in Gold. We were monitoring gold for a bearish continuation...
Brexit delayed until April 21st
No-Deal Brexit odds increase
PM May might have to resign
US-China trade deal hopes rise The GBP/USD is in a clear downtrend being under pressure from the USD strength and terrible Brexit news every time...
EUR/USD holding 1.1200
97.50 DXY fails
President Trump comments on monetary policy The EUR/USD has been trading down inside a bear channel for the best part of the year now and has dropped 2.27% since it peaked and tested...
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$DXY Big Break of the 97.70
Eyes on 99.0 After being capped by 97.70 for a few months the $DXY finally broker to the upside yesterday and it gives no sign of slowing down and finally, the UD Dollar's...
US Dollar weakness
Gold bullish run is still in play In the last few months, price action in gold has been erratic, to say the least, and the main reason is that if we look at the bigger picture...
In Wednesday's colloquium, former ECB President Mario Draghi's speech focused on how new challenges such as technological innovation and globalization affect monetary policy. "The issues facing monetary policy can be divided into 2 questions," said Draghi. The first one...
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