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Yen Dollar Correlation – Upside Story
The US dollar and the Yen continue to work in correlation, and today, the dollar made gains – the Yen extended them. I’ve written in the past about the Dollar Yen Correlation. In previous events, such as the FOMC Trillion dollar printing statement, the dollar weakened, and then the Yen weakened even more. Today, it
EUR/GBP Locked Between Uptrend Support and Strong Resistance
EUR/GBP found strong resistance at the magical 0.95 line, and slipped downwards. It doesn’t have much room to move due to uptrend support. This week’s high volatility should push it over the top – breaking resistance on the road to parity. EUR/GBP traded this week in a 250 pips range, from 0.9420 to 0.9170. In
Forex Weekly Outlook – March 30 – April 3 2009
Big week ahead in the forex market. Non Farm Payrolls, ECB rate decision and the G20 summit talks will be the highlights of the week. There are lots of other major indicators this week, that begins with important indicators on Sunday night! Here’s what’s cooking for us this week: Sunday, March 29th: There are important
Obama’s Stimulus Bad For Dollar, Good For Economy
The stimulus package delivered by Obama spills a lot of money into the US economy. Printing of money devalues the currency, but I do believe that this pro active and extreme measures will get America out of the crisis quite fast. I’ve written in the past that the stimulus package will weaken the dollar, due
NFP Effect Roundup
Non Farm Payrolls were in line with the official expectations – a fall of 651K jobs, but the affects on the forex market were fascinating, and can teach us some things for the next release. Let’s walk through the market alleys and find some precious currency correlations: Official expectations were a drop of 647,000 jobs
Forex Daily Outlook – March 6th 2009
Today is the day of the monthly circus: Non Farm Payrolls will keep tensions up all day, and after it, the market might “explode”. The are a few other releases. Let’s cover them… In Switzerland, monthly CPI is expected to be almost unchanged, dropping 0.1% after last month’s fall of 0.8%. At 9:30 GMT, in
British Pound – First Breakout of the Week
The forex week began with a big move by the British pound. It fell below the below the 1.40 mark. This happened after bad manufacturing PMI was released in Britain, and after the good ISM Manufacturing PMI in the US. GBP/USD is now trading at 1.3977, after breaking support lines, and breaking the 1.40 psychological line.
EUR/USD and USD/JPY Breakouts this Week?
Both the EUR/USD and the USD/JPY went in favor of the dollar last week, but didn’t make the big breakouts. This first week of March, with heaps of economic figures, could make them break out. From noon on Thursday, expect 24 hours of wild price action. EUR/USD The most popular pair, EUR/USD, went down last
Forex Weekly Outlook – February 9-13 2009
The second week of February begins in a slow pace, with more speeches than real economic data. It gradually gains pace, with Trade Balance in Canada and the US on Wednesday, Australian Employment Data on Thursday, and American Retail Sales on Thursday. On Friday 13th, European GDP will dominate the day, as well as UoM
Forex Behavior Back to Normal
This week has been quite strange in forex trading. The risk factor played a major role in trading. But at least the behavior following the NFP release was normal. On Tuesday, Pending Home Sales in the US were quite high, much better than expected. Instead of being unchanged, the figure rose by 6.3%. Such a