Recent Commentaries tagged (foreign-exchange)
As Eurozone Equities Push Higher, Bullish...
European equity markets are all higher, led by the Eurozone's banking sector, as investors' optimism of a favorable resolution to the Greek saga grows. Also providing some support for equities was news from the European Central Bank that they have agreed in principle of the need for them to make ...
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Bank of England Increases Asset Purchases,...
The Bank of England announced earlier that it would hold its benchmark lending rate at 0.5% in line with economists' expectations. They also announced that the Bank's asset purchase program would be increased to ?325 billion from the current ?275 billion, again in line with expectations. Meeting ...
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Dow Jones Index under 5000 by 2013?
As my first post to Guru Talk, I wanted to share an insightful article written by Tom Hougaard last year. For those who haven't heard the name before, Tom is a highly successful market strategist, has worked for some of the UK's leading financial brokers, and has conducted over 1000 interviews ac...
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British Taxpayers Are Not to Be Messed With
In Britain, they do not joke around. The former chief executive officer of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fred Goodwin, was stripped of his knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II Wednesday as punishment for his role in the 2008 financial crisis. The title was originally given to the banker in 2004 for his...
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U.S. Labor Data Beats Forecasts,...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier that January's non-farms payroll data showed the creation of 243,000 new jobs. Analysts polled ahead of the release were forecasting an increase of only 150,000 new jobs. December's data was revised to 203,000 new jobs. Notably, the unemploymen...
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Speculation of SNB’s Move Keeps Swissie...
Swiss bulls stand at the ready for an SNB intervention. Speculation is rife that it will come soon and recent data pointing to a slowing down of the Swiss economy may hasten the decision. Yesterday, it was reported that the pace of Swiss manufacturing slowed in January, even as the frail Eurozone...
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OpenBook Traders Jockey for Position as NFP...
The U.S. government will later today release data for January's non-farms payroll sector. The ADP report released on Wednesday showed that 170,000 new jobs were created against expectations of 185,000 and a marked decline from 325,000 in December. Given that, analysts are expecting that the Burea...
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Weekly Review OpenBook Roundup
Today we want to draw our readers' focus to guru sadiqashanaz97 who is on track to record a 12-month P&L of some 360%. This trader, who has 1467 followers and 150 copiers, has a diverse portfolio and employs a generally low to mid-risk trading strategy. The trader focuses primarily on the EUR/USD...
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Trading the U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls Release
The United States will release Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) data on Friday, February 3rd 2012. The market consensus is for the creation of 153K jobs in the month of January. Market expectations are cautious after the December report which showed that 200K jobs were added to the economy in the same mon...
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Aussie Dollar Lifted by Sentiment and...
The Aussie Dollar gained against the U.S. Dollar after the release of positive economic reports from Australia. Australian trade surplus increased to 1.7 billion Australian dollars in December. This was much higher than analyst expectations of a surplus of 1.2 billion Australian dollars. In Novem...
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Abrupt End to Euro Rally has Traders...
A new month opens with a sell-off in the Euro, which hit hard and fast and continues to show signs of retreat. What caused it specifically isn't clear, though a predominantly bearish sentiment is not unusual given that the underlying factors which created the Eurozone crisis remain. Recently, the...
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MarketMap 2012 Annual Outlook
"All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology. Without due recognition of crowd-thinking ... our theories of economics leave much to be desired. It has always seemed to me that the periodic madnesses which afflict mankind must reflect some deeply rooted trait in...
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OpenBook Traders Take Advantage of USDJPY...
Japan reported that industrial production rose 4.0% in December. This was much better than analyst expectations of a rise of 2.8%. This follows a 2.7% drop in November and is a positive sign for the Japanese economy. Japanese manufacturers have been struggling to get production back to pre-earthq...
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And Now It’s Portugal
On Monday, the yield on the 5-year Portuguese note spiked. The yield hit a record for the post-euro era of 22.69%. The trade may have been fueled by the turn of events in Greece. The general perception of the market may be to accept Greece's default as a given. Read more
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OpenBook Traders Gear up for RBA Rate Decision
With a relatively light economic calendar, Asian markets traded lower as skepticism focused on the EU economic summit starting today. The Nikkei was down 58 points, the Hang Seng was down 253 points and the Australian S&P ASX was down 14 points. After the rate decisions last from BOJ, Fed and RB...
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