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Forex Weekly Roundup- December 15-19th 2008
Last week was very dramatic in the Forex market: The peak was the interest rate cut on Tuesday by Ben Bernanke: a 0.75% cut to 0.25%. This weighed heavily on the USD, on all fronts. Later on, the dollar made a big comeback, especially in against the Euro and the pund. Both EUR/USD and GBP/USD
Yen expected to dive following the Budget Proposal
The Japanese government revealed the new budget that is planned for the next fiscal year. It features an increase of 6.6% to 88.5 trillion Yen – about 990 billion dollars 0 the highest budget ever. This move contradicts the government’s long term effort to reduce the budget and to reach a balanced budget by 2011.
Forex Daily Analysis – December 19th 2008
The big news this morning comes from Japan – the BOJ reduced the interest rate to 0.1% – quite symbolic. Japanese Yen traders aren’t used to see moves in interest rates – this is the second one in the recent two months. The Bank of Japan also announced that it would flow some cash into
Forex Daily Analysis – December 18th 2008
The US dollar continues to plunge against all the currencies. Even the pund that lagged behind made a move forward. GBP/USD now above 1.56. The EUR/USD crossed another resistance line at 1.44, and aimed to breach the 1.45 line. Curretly it retracted back a little bit. Today’s imprtant data is Germany’s IFO Business Climate Survey,
As low as possible (almost)
Ben Bernanke made a sharp move – he lowered the US interest rate to almost the lowest possible value: 0.25%. One step further, and it’s zero – nothing. The sharp 0.75 reduction in the overnight rate was anticipated by some traders, but most of them were expecting a somewhat more moderate cut of 0.50%. The
Deteriorating oil prices should weaken Yen
The Japanese Yen has gained a lot of ground in the past few months. The Yen became stronger when the US dollar lost ground to other currencies, and got even stronger when the dollar strengthened against these currencies. Currently, 1 US dollar is worth only 92.71 Yen. This valuation is at a very low point