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EUR/USD retraced from the yesterday lows set on the bad signals from Europe. Fundamentals that came out in U.S. today aren’t very positive for the dollar, while the interest rate decision by FOMC didn’t bring any real surprises to the market, but decreased the general risk-aversion, helping such currencies as the euro. The currency…

The euro traded for the first time in 2010 below $1.40 as the Federal Reserve stated on its interest rates decision report today that the multiple economic sectors are improving in the U.S., and economic stimulus used to help the country to emerge from last year crisis will start to be lifted, helping the greenback to gain…

EUR/USD showed the biggest daily growth since early September today and reached a new weekly high as the Federal reserve released a very optimistic monetary policy statement, citing faster recovery and lower inflation, which still allows interest rates as low as they are now. Although the amount of planned purchase of the debt…

EUR/USD managed to reach its new high level since late September 2008 and then went down below the daily open level today. The FOMC decision played the major role in today’s decline of the euro against the U.S. dollar. Currently EUR/USD is trading near 1.4764 after reaching as high as 1.4842…

Despite the huge and quite unexpected drop of the U.S. gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2009 reported today, the stock markets rose globally, spurring euro and other high-yielding pairs in their gain against the greenback. The interest rates left unchanged weren’t a big news…

EUR/USD posted one of its biggest daily gains in history today as the FOMC’s press release stated that the Federal Reserve will have to buy the long-term U. S. Treasury securities worth of $300 billion and it means that the money will be printed. The perspective of the increased amount of dollars pushed…

The main intrigue for today Forex trading session was the FOMC’s meeting at which the next interest rate should have been decided. As the most market participants expected FOMC lowered overnight interest rate in U.S. by 0.50% to 3.00%, farther widening the gap between U.S. and European interest rates. The decision was made…

EUR/USD is hitting its all-time record high level beyond 1.4800 after the pessimistic analysts’ forecasts on housing data appeared to be almost completely true today. Housing Starts for the October grew to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.229 million, compared to 1.193 million in September and 1.175 million expected for this…

Today is a very important day for the financial traders from all over the world — Fed is to decide its interest rate policy until the next meeting (if not further). While almost 92% of all traders expected rate cut by 25 basis points — to 4.50% — the main intrigue was…

Federal Reserve of the United States of America lowered its primary credit rate (at which money to the banks are borrowed) from 6.25% to 5.75% to add liquidity to financial and lending markets. Federal Reserve (as the today’s FOMC statement says) is concerned with the current situation of the economy growth and the crisis in the credit sector.…