I found this opinion full of holes. Domestic economies depend for their health on the state of the world economy. The world is trying hard to become more not less integrated which underscores the previous point. 8 years out from the GFC we still ...

The Fed’s Risky New Mandate

Well done, Super Rich.

The Super Rich Were the First to Bail During the Financial Crisis

Bugger!

Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision

Expecting no change. Central Banks don't like to react to surprising one-off data points. CPI release suggested a combination of one-offs rather than a sudden lurch to underlying deflation. Some promising real economy data raises risk of giving more ...

Aussie Dollar: Trader or Punter?

Perhaps commodity price index has troughed. That's the real issue here.

RBA Index of Commodity Prices: April 2016

See Alex Kinmont's book "Japan is irrelevant" (2002).

Japan’s Economic Quandary

Are nuclear plants nearby?

France's Charente-Maritime hit by Magnitude 5 Quake: France info

No substance just headline

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid If You're Investing for the Long Run

"Oh Lord, its hard to be humble".

Janet Yellen Talks Transforming the Fed

This week's Australian jobs data likely to surprise again on the upside. Business confidence data and the job ads data both supportive. On back of rally in commodities a strong jobs number likely to push AUD ahead to 80 USD cents and 100 CAD cents.

Dollar drops to 8-month low as commodity currencies climb

Unit labor costs are falling. Cost of imports is falling. Monthly core CPI no higher than any other time since early 2005. Monthly core PPI same pattern as always (20 years). Hawks will continue to find the data lagging their rhetoric. This is a ...

So Just How Much of an Overshoot on Inflation Will the Fed Tolerate?

He admits he doesn't know the direction of key factors then says he hopes the currency falls. If this quality of analysis is what's driving the forex market I'll become a technical trader.

RBA board member John Edwards jawboned the Australian dollar last night

China has been buying time for the FED and the whole US economy. Its the same size economy growing at over 6%. Maybe mutually beneficial strategies are win - win.

How the Fed may be buying time for China

1. "Normalise" is a word, but what does it mean? It does not mean just raising rates does it? Its more useful to relate 'normal' to using interest rates as an efficient policy tool, with the level of interest rates being guided appropriately (low ...

Fed Has Little Reason to Hike Rates

Big issue is Global RISK/ON or Global RISK/OFF? If markets decide the latter then USD going below 100 Yen. Support for RISK/OFF has been growing but not done deal. World just needs more evidence that world economic growth has some momentum and ...

The breakdown on Dollar/Yen does not bode well

• Beware an uptick in the US unemployment rate this Friday. This occurs from time to time for technical reasons and we are not suggesting an imminent economic slowdown. Check out the ForexF chart and you'll see its been a long time since one of ...

June is off the table

• Beware an uptick in the US unemployment rate this Friday. This occurs from time to time for technical reasons and we are not suggesting an imminent economic slowdown. Check out the ForexF chart and you'll see its been a long time since one of ...

Yellen Says What Markets Want to Hear

Beware an uptick in the US unemployment rate this Friday. This occurs from time to time for technical reasons and we are not suggesting an imminent economic slowdown. Check out the ForexF chart and you'll see its been a long time since one of these ...

Yellen Outsources U.S. Monetary Policy to the Financial Markets

Big picture is that global growth is still disappointing and so global inflation is not yet a worry. US 'normal' for this stage of the cycle would be a FFR of at least 3%, currently 0.5% and wavering. Returning to 'normal' in US therefore looks like ...

The dollar may give the Fed a green light on rates: Analyst

Big picture is that global growth is still disappointing and so global inflation is not yet a worry. US 'normal' for this stage of the cycle would be a FFR of at least 3%, currently 0.5% and wavering. Returning to 'normal' in US therefore looks like ...

Yellen to battle the 'dark side'