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- Submitted Jul 1, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com

In 2013, when the Fed’s chair Bernanke announced bond tapering, there was a fast sell-off in gold. In fact, gold lost nearly 20% of its value over a few months. So, with the Fed ‘talking about tapering’ and gold falling off rapidly is this about to ...
- Submitted Jun 30, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com|3 comments

It has been roughly two weeks since the Fed did its best to jawbone the market down by hinting at a rate hike on the horizon. It also mentioned that committee members were “talking about talking about tapering.” The market reacted by selling ...
- Submitted Jun 28, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com

The central banks are listed below with their current state of play. The link for each central bank is included in the title of the bank and the next scheduled meeting is in the title too. Reserve Bank of Australia, Governor Phillip Lowe, 0.10%, ...
- Submitted Jun 25, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com

Think of this image when you are trading the financial markets. Why is an arm wrestle an important image to help with your trading? Well, this idea underpins currency trading. Here is the explanation: In trading currencies, we always want to trade a ...
- Submitted Jun 25, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com|2 comments

The Fed’s recent hawkish dot plot shift has opened up immediate dollar strength and sent global stocks lower on policy normalisation fears. However, this last week saw a gradual weakening of the USD and strength coming back into global stocks. Why? ...
- Submitted Jun 24, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com|8 comments

Core CPI on Wednesday last week came in at 2% vs 1.5% y/y expected. That is the BoE’s target. Now we know by now that when you say ‘high inflation’ you reply, ‘transitory’. However, the spike higher does not hurt the expectations for bond tapering ...
- Submitted Jun 22, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com|5 comments

There is a huge battle going on for crypto dominance and Bitcoin has one distinct disadvantage over Ethereum; it is too static in its development. Well, this is the case below that Bloomberg make for Bitcoin being surpassed by Ethereum. Firstly, the ...
- Submitted Jun 18, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com|1 comment

Here are a range of factors supporting further GBP strength and what may call it into question. Andy Haldane said that the UK housing sector was ‘on fire’. In fact, the UK’s Nationwide house price index has printed a 1.8% increase in May on top of ...
- Submitted Jun 14, 2021|From blog.hycmlab.com

In a sentence, not a great deal. This was expected to be a ‘holding meeting’ by the BoC and that was pretty much what it was. Rates kept at 0.25% and QE at $3 billion per week. The main headline bullet points reported were: Economic developments ...