Author: Interactive Brokers

IB FX View Behind the garden wall Wednesday May 27, 2009 Free markets that were once proud to show off the success of the capitalist system on which they were built have come to a crashing halt over the past two years. Greed got...

IB FX View Dollar rebound fades after consumer expectations surge Tuesday May 26, 2009 Technically speaking, any investor looking for a safe haven in light of the two short-range missiles let loose off the eastern coast of North...

IB FX View It won’t happen overnight Friday May 22, 2009 A good foreign exchange dealer, so they tell me, is one who’d not hesitate to sell his mother. In a world where rumors lead to selling and facts lead to buying...

IB FX View Britain thrown to the pigs Thursday May 21, 2009 The British pound is recovering from an earlier belly-ache brought on by the specter of a loss of its AAA credit rating. According to Standard & Poor’s, there...

IB FX View A giant parabola Wednesday May 20, 2009 An outburst of technical buying of all major currencies against the dollar saw the U.S. unit on a trajectory towards the trash can as hardened dollar bulls were mercilessly...

IB FX View A world without TARP Tuesday May 19, 2009 We wonder out loud whether anyone else, in thinking about the prospects for the surging U.S. fiscal deficit, considered that the ultimate government contribution to the...

IB FX View Asian news drives yen at start of slow week Monday May 18, 2009 It would be nine to be able to open today’s commentary with a stunning observation relaying how the yen got trashed overnight thanks to comments...

IB FX View Eurozone growth slump accentuates risk reversion Friday May 15, 2009 We’d possibly be over analyzing things if we concluded in Friday’s daily forex view that the dollar had a pretty good week. In reality,...

IB FX View A run on the dollar? Wednesday May 13, 2009 The big currency driver of the day in the European session was the breaking FT article resurrecting the thorny issue of whether U.S. treasury debt might lose its mojo in the...

IB FX View Recession fast becoming a fading memory Tuesday May 12, 2009 Fading memories of the worst global recession in living memory continue to be played out in terms of a weakening dollar as investors pursue opportunities in...