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It’s happened again – commentators, bookies and the markets were wrong over the outcome of an election, in this case the US one where Donald Trump won. The consequences of his victory will be fundamental for markets, the global economy and ...
On January 23, Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda advised China to impose capital controls to defend CNY – about a week a later he made China’s job a lot harder by setting Japan’s interest rates in negative territory for the first time ever. The ...
China's move to devalue the RMB by 1.9% on Tuesday and lowering the mid-point rate by 1.6% to USD/RMB 6.3306 on Wednesday could be a prelude to a full blown currency war and may keep monetary policy lax around the world for longer – even seeing a ...
Yesterday saw sudden and extreme movement in the value of the Swiss franc following the Swiss National Bank (SNB) decision to abandon the three-year old cap against the euro. While the volatility in the currency markets claimed a number of brokers, ...
Words carry a lot of power. Nations have started and crumbled because of the strength wielded in a pen. There are many opportunities in today's world for words to have a far-reaching impact on nations or individuals. Sometimes, the words that people ...
The world of forex is a very broad, complex place. There are numerous strategies, currency pairs, and analysts out there for the forex trader to wade through. The amount of information available can be intimidating, making it very difficult for a ...
Given the recent performance of GBP/USD the forex markets seem to be veering towards the US raising interest rates first, but there's still a chance that the Bank of England could pip the US Federal Reserve to the post. If the UK does go first, or ...
In the dry world of monetary policy something very significant is happening – the US interest cycle looks close to turning and when it does it will be a historic event which could further realign forex levels. Versus a basket of currencies, USD is ...
Inflation risks in the world economy could be ratcheting up, despite the winding down of the US Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing programme posing a new dilemma for central banks, which could have a considerable impact on forex markets. A ...
Forex market conditions often change the effectiveness and profitability of a trader's strategy; low volatility conditions make it much harder to capitalize on trending strategies. Should a trend emerge, it is often weak and won't carry through to ...
Martin is definitely the most unusual trader interviewed for this series. It's not so much his background. Though he did get to work for a while for Sir James Goldsmith, the billionaire corporate raider who was feared in corporate boardrooms on both ...
Paul Rotter is something of a legend among scalp traders with a penchant for the German government bond market. At the height of his scalping career he would sometimes trade as many as 1 million contracts a day with a more normal turnover of a still ...
Traders put a lot of effort into finding the right entry points for their forex strategy, but many do not put nearly the same sort of effort into figuring out how to exit those trades and lock in profits. Truthfully, each trader's approach is likely ...
Ten year yields on Italian and Spanish government bonds hit new lows this week as they slipped below 3% suggesting that all is going well in the Eurozone – but is it? Whether or not that's true has profound implications for the Euro. The ...
Since the financial crisis the global economy has been gripped by near constant volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity leading to an almost permanent interventionist stance by central bankers. This has created difficult markets for some ...
Forex traders come in all different shapes and sizes, like Liquorice Allsorts. Across our diverse globe we have men and women, short and tall, little and large and so on. However, with different cultures come different traditions, customs and even ...
There is an outside chance that the European Central Bank could upstage the normally all important US Non-Farm Payroll figures due this Friday with an announcement over new stimulus measures to combat potential deflationary pressures. Last week ...
There's an inconvenient truth, which is that many western countries are so heavily indebted that they cannot afford rising interest rates, yet that is exactly what is starting to happen in the US and long before the US Federal Reserve tighten ...
People love to hear about the greatest successes and failures in about any industry. After all, those circumstances make for the best stories. The following is a collection of some of the greatest legitimate financial successes and some of the ...
The Return of Goldilocks Means a Weaker USD, but Beware the 3 Bears By Justin Pugsley Central banks are shifting their policies in response to signs that economies are returning to growth. In many ways it looks like a comforting return to the 'old ...