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Forex blog posts about interest rates are presented here. You can click the selected excerpt's title to continue reading on 'interest rates'.

EUR/USD Soars as Fed Cuts Rate

December 16th, 2008

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 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

Dollar Falls for Second Day as U.S. Markets Not Revived by Rescue Plan

October 8th, 2008

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%, …

Dollar Stands Firmly After Record Low TIC Inflow

September 16th, 2008

EUR/USD declined today during the whole trading session as the stock markets were also falling globally. Now  U. S. indexes remain in the neutral zone, but the dollar still stands well against the euro, even after some really bad statistics from U.S. A rapid …

Dollar Stronger Before FOMC Decision, Gave Up Somewhat After

August 5th, 2008

EUR/USD had a very big drop today as the stock markets grew in U.S. and the Forex traders expected positive decision from the FOMC monetary policy. ISM report also supported the greenback today with an increase in its index, but the main news was the …

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 …

Dollar Falls After FOMC Lowers Interest Rates

January 30th, 2008

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

Interest Rate Decision’s Influence on EUR/USD

January 10th, 2008

Today the European Central Bank decided to leave the interest rate unchanged at 4.00%, as it was expected by the markets. But the EUR/USD went up after the decision became known — the currency pair gained more than 70 pips. What has caused that? Along with the rate decision ECB

Forecast for 2008 Forex, Oil, Interest Rates

December 30th, 2007

OK, the New Year is coming close and as this year is ending it’s about time to try to forecast the future of the Forex market (and some other factors that influence Forex) for the year 2008. My last forecast (for 2007) didn’t get its own post on this blog, but I must admit that …

Fed Sees No Major Problems in U.S. Economy

October 31st, 2007

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 concealed

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