Agree. Like boarding an abandoned spaceship and computer is still playing the same message as 50 years before. COVID has helped CHF by supporting safe haven forex and pharmaceutical profits.

SNB's Jordan: Negative Rates, Intervention Pledge Are Essential

Headlines not useful basis for real debate.

Kaplan: Fed should start talking about tapering bond buying soon

When your country/region is not a superpower (there are only 3) then some sort of alignment is a very risky strategy especially for small fry countries (size). The WTO regime is the only alternative to the Big 3 regime. Might is right has always ...

Australia is taking China to the World Trade Organisation over its intensifying trade war....

This article confuses generalised inflationary pressure associated with excessive aggregate demand and a bounce back in demand from very weak pandemic levels. Neither does it acknowledge the huge excess supply available to the USA from outside. USA ...

Wowzers, the US economy is hot

Russia needs a revolution to restore proper law and order and promote freedom in business matters and private matters. When you lock up your political opposition in trumped up charges you are much much worse than any Tsar.

Russia blacklists 8 EU officials in retaliatory action

Is Bitcoin in the money supply measure?

Weidmann: Money supply increases won't spur sustained high inflation

Housing markets are pretty tight in most developed countries because in a COVID world its better to choose developed than developing to live in. Stock markets are not frothy just because so called 'record highs' are achieved. Stock prices should be ...

Dallas Fed President Spooks Stocks: "We've Got Real Excesses In The Housing Market", Rate Hike...

There is a missing component to this argument but which bolsters the conclusion. AUD sentiment has been weak for 7 to 8 years partly due to domestic politics which have prevented sensible policies from being adopted and blown out the fiscal deficit. ...

AUD/USD Forecasts Next 6-12 Months: May 2021 Exchange Rate Outlook From Top Ten Banks

The Australian stance here looks more like for domestic political consumption and not to promote domestic business

Thorny Australia response to China’s olive branch

USD bears happy to play GBP et al.

EUR bulls slowly re-emerging

GBPUSD bullish for investors not so hot for traders. GBP a Cinderella play shorter term.

Pound-to-Dollar Week Ahead Forecast: GBP Bids 'Goodnight Vienna' to USD Bulls

Forex markets in general are difficult to comprehend. Often forex forces are a residual after politicians and policymakers have addressed issues in related markets but which have impacts on forex as well. It is most useful to analyse the current ...

The key influences on the USD

Neither Bloomberg nor ZeroHedge doing us any favours. Wrong video shown by ZeroHedge; wrong reporting by Bloomberg. Wrong reporting can be very expensive for individual investors as well as pros.

Canadian Drama: Loonie Dumps And Pumps On Headline Chaos As BOC Tapers Bond Purchases, Moves...

As the charts provided by the writer show there is a very low correlation between this measure of inflation expectations and nominal bond yields. Since inflation may rise short term then fall again by year end I suspect that any further rise in ...

Will Rates Rally Further, Pushing Gold Down?

USA is itself a forex manipulator using QE, tapering, sanctions and tariff strategies to impact the supply of USD in the financial system. Forex is just Cash in different places (countries, regions). Politics has no place in theory in determining ...

Yellen plans to spare China from currency manipulator label

Yuan is not a floating currency. Mixing politics and economics is a difficult combination to analyse.

Yuan's Uncertain Path Ahead

Irrational argument that people favour to be part of another country. What a shambles if this principle were adopted. Belarus just wants to be Belarus and so on and son and so on. Russia has no credibility with its own official people and no ...

Russian Deputy ForMin: Warns US To Stay Away From Russia And Crimea

Do not bet on fresh inflation. Within USA and within trading partners there is huge capacity. Some bottlenecks yes, inflation no.

US dollar rises from near three-week low as traders brace for inflation data

The way to deal with bullies is to front up and fight if you have to. Sanctions are no use. Russian economy is weak reflecting unorthodox and unintelligent economic policies. Typical strategy for controlled economy by dictatorship is to start war ...

The G-7 Is Very Worried Regarding Russian Troops Stationed Along The Ukrainian Border

Behind the Covid is negative for those currencies because monetary stance will be easy or even easier. In this case Euro.

Merkel’s Cabinet to Pass Lockdown Law to Tackle Surge in Cases