Americans Drifting Away from Stocks – Will the Dollar Enjoy This?

In the past 30 months, Americans have moved away from stocks into bonds, according to Investment Company Institute that monitors mutual funds. The last time that this happened, between 1984 to 1987, it ended in a huge collapse of the stock market. Will history repeat itself? Will the dollar leap on such an event? Nearly [...]

Scenarios for Fed Decision

The upcoming FOMC Meeting holds high expectations for easing steps by the Federal Reserve – steps that can help stimulate the economy that has slowed down. Here are possible scenarios for this decision, and possible market reactions. On Tuesday, August 10th, at 18:15, Ben Bernanke and his team will release the FOMC statement. I’ve already [...]

Fundamental Overview – Market Movers This Week – 7/19/2010

Guest post by ForexTraders.com European debt markets recovered somewhat last week after some relatively successful debt auctions. Also, commodity prices eased, with gold closing the week below the psychological $1,200 level, with a predictably negative effect on the Australian and Canadian Dollars. Nevertheless, last week saw investors’ unease about the U.S. economy grow considerably, especially in the [...]

Fundamental Overview – Market Movers This Week – 7/12/2010

Guest post by ForexTraders.com Last week gave global investors a possibly brief reprieve from recent financial market turmoil as world stock and bond markets rallied sharply, while commodity prices also firmed. With that noted, an underlying sense of caution and unease seems to continue permeating world markets.

Fundamental Overview – Market Movers This Week – 7/5/2010

Guest post by ForexTraders.com The U.S. Dollar had a mixed performance last week, rising sharply against the commodities currencies, where it gained 3.9% versus the Aussie, 3.6% against the Kiwi and a slightly less dramatic 2.5% vis-à-vis the Loonie. Nevertheless, the Greenback declined 1.5% and 0.9% against the Euro and Sterling respectively, and the Dollar also [...]

Dollar Rallies on Job Gains

It finally happened – the American job market gained 162,000 jobs in March. The highest gain in 3 years sends the dollar higher across the board. Not all currencies affected equally. NFP Analysis. Non-Farm Payrolls rose by 162K. This is the first time that the Department of Labor reports a rise in jobs in the [...]

Full Recovery for EUR/USD? Not So Fast

EUR/USD enjoyed an active Asian session to make very significant gains in the wake of the new week. With the back wind of the Greek plan, is the Euro changing directions? Not so fast. During the Asian session, EUR/USD made a move above 1.3423. This was the previous support line. When the pair was trading higher, [...]

Will the Greenback Fly the Non-Farm Payrolls?

The upcoming Non-Farm Payrolls release on April 2nd should be significantly different than previous releases. The special timing and the a realization of the high expectations could send the dollar way up. Here’s a preview. For newbies, and not only them, I recommend reading my 5 notes for Non-Farm Payrolls trading. This is always a very exciting, [...]

Healthcare Reform Weighs on the US Dollar

The healthcare reform passed the final hurdle in the American House of Representatives. I’m not going to enter the heated debate about the reform – I’m just going to deal with the implications for forex trading. There are different sides to this story:

Forex book review: Making Sense of the Dollar

Guest Post by John Forman John Forman is a Forex author and expert. He is the Senior Foreign Exchange Analyst for the IFR Markets group of Thomson Reuters and frequent blog poster on Currensee.com. You may be familiar with Marc Chandler from appearances on CNBC and/or reading articles he’s published in a number of venues. [...]

keep looking »

  • Forex Crunch

    Forex Crunch is a blog all about the foreign exchange market. It includes and will include: tutorials, basics of the forex market, daily and weekly forex analysis, technical analysis, forex software posts, and whatever is related to Forex. Forex Crunch aims to deal with forex trading, but with a more personal touch. More...

  • Stay up to date!

    Subscribe By Email

    Enter your email address:


    Trade together with Currensee

    Search

  • Forex Crunch Pages

  • Forex Categories

Bad Behavior has blocked 2158 access attempts in the last 7 days.