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Spike on EUR/USD as ECB Strengthens Euro

December 4th, 2009

EUR/USD showed a high bullish spike today on Forex after bouncing off the 1.5140 technical resistance level. The currency pair was influenced by the set of fundamental events, among which the ECB monetary policy statement wasn’t the least. The Eurozone regulator decided to tighten the money giveaway by scaling down the emergency measures that …

Euro Peaks High against Dollar as Rate Cut is Slow

April 2nd, 2009

EUR/USD rose at a very fast pace today, posting the biggest daily gain since March 18 so far. Mixed news on the U.S. fundamental indicators didn’t affect the trading much as the Forex traders looked at the ECB’s rate cutting action. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.3413.

Last week initial

EUR/USD Up after Employment and Factory Orders Reports

December 4th, 2008

EUR/USD rose today after posting a slight decline yesterday and trading in the negative zone for the most of the day as the ECB cut the interest rate and some mixed fundamental reports from U.S. arrived. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.2794.

Initial jobless claims

USD Rallies Up as BoE Cuts Interest Rate

February 7th, 2008

Dollar (and, actually, Japanese yen too) showed a major triumph on Forex market today after the Bank of England decided to go down from 5.50% to 5.25% on the main interest rate. And despite, while BoE lowered the rate, ECB held the rate at the same 4.00% value, dollar bulls pushed …

EUR/USD Hits Monthly Low After ECB Intervention

August 13th, 2007

EUR/USD hit new monthly minimum at 1.3606 today, bouncing back from both the psychological support of 1.3600 and technical support level around 1.3605. One of the main reason for the vigorous dollar behavior can be seen in ECB today’s currency intervention of more than 130 billions. Such a harsh

Good News from U.S. Economy

July 5th, 2007

With an impressively high ISM Services index today’s macroeconomic data from United States was a very optimistic news for USD bulls. June ISM non-manufacturing index came out at 60.7% — 1% higher than May number, and a lot better than expected, since the negative change in ISM index was

EUR/USD Rallies at Trading Week End

June 22nd, 2007

Last day of a Forex trading week brought some good results for EUR/USD currency pairs, moving it past 1.3450 level (but still not breaking the recent downtrend). The main reasons of such behavior of EUR/USD can be seen in slightly better than expected April industrial orders which in year-to-year

EUR/USD Unsure After ECB Speaks

June 6th, 2007

Today on 13:30 (UTC) ECB statement was released as the interest rates in the Eurozone were increased by 0.25% to 4.00% as expected. Jean-Claude Trichet spoke about current and expected situations in European economy and the main lines can be concluded in the following: economy is growing at a fast pace (better than expected), while inflation

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