The forecast for 2009, that was posted by me on January 3rd this year, came out to be not very accurate but definitely better than the one for the year 2008. I’ve missed largely with the USD-based pairs (especially GBP/USD — a parity! What was I thinking about?!), but the yen-based forecasts…
When the Forex brokers hold your position without making a physical delivery of currency (cash) to you, they should be paying an interest rate on your position. This interest rate is applied at the end of each day (17:00 EST) on all your open positions and is called rollover. This rollover…
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 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.
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The gold seems to be becoming the favorite investment around as the traders are afraid of the crisis and the fiat currencies seem to be in a great danger when all those anti-crisis measures will induct a massive wave of inflation, reducing the money’s buying power. In such an environment gold looks like a good investment to save one’s assets and to multiply…
EUR/USD showed some really promising growth earlier today. The optimistic mood at the financial markets was based on the FOMC meeting’s expectations and the expectations that the «bad bank» plan will be approved soon. The Federal Reserve meeting showed that the committee is still…
My last forecast (for the year 2008) missed the real world market action significantly. The financial crisis made a lot of the forecasts made by the analysts and traders useless but, nevertheless, I still wish to offer my vision for the next year. This is just my opinion and…
EUR/USD went up significantly today after the CPI report showed another month of deflation, the housing slid and the Federal Reserve announced that the federal funds rate is reduced. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.3967.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased by 1.7% at a seasonally adjusted rate…
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.
EUR/USD currency pair is growing for the second day in a row today after the Federal Reserve and the major central banks cut the interest rates to provide additional help to the tumbling markets. Fed cut the interest rate from 2% to 1.5%, Bank of England — from 5% to 4.5%,…
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