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The Swiss National Bank has announced a minimal level of the national currency (Swiss franc) relative to the euro almost a week ago. During these 4 and a half days of trading, the EUR/CHF rate moved in a range slightly above 1.2 level — between 1.2009 and 1.2185, which is within 1.5% of the target …

As you all probably know already, the Swiss National Bank (country’s central bank) has pegged the Swiss franc’s Forex rate to the euro at about 1.20. The Swiss financial authorities got tired with their inability to weaken the currency using less drastic measures (classical currency interventions) and have just …

Carry trade is a popular trading strategy that is based on buying a high-yielding asset with the low-yielding asset, so that the cost of loan is less than the yield of the asset you’ve bought. In Forex, carry trade is based on buying a currency pair with a high positive interest rate difference …

U.S. macroeconomical data releases get a little less overoptimistic while the subprime lending crisis takes its toll and the carry trade is uncertain. This is the second week after a major carry trade crisis when the major indicators of carry trade, like GBP/JPY and EUR/JPY, are trading flat without …

Global stocks markets calmed by central banks’ generous currency interventions last week are doing quite well so far. EUR/USD and other currency pairs influenced by carry trade and subprime lending crisis chain reaction (mostly EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY) also don’t jump madly through and out the support and resistance …

EUR/USD reached its two month minimum and almost broker out of its long-term bullish trend today. World stocks markets continue to fall with the main reason lying in panic caused by the crisis in subprime lending U.S. sector. Cashing out of stocks papers causes also carry trade retreating with …