Odd market conditions prevail around the 'festive' western holidays when Iran tensions also took off. Market readings are not even as reliable at such times as at non-festive periods. For traders these are dangerous opportunities (again). Big ...

Improvement in risk appetite as markets settle and gold retracement continues

Its curious to talk of policy scope in these terms. We expect a CB to have a reaction function which guides policy responses. If they are miles away from their desired position then what does that say about their goals?

BoE’s Carney: BoE Has Equivalent Of 250 Basis Points Of Policy Space

Open war with US involvement would likely help the USD given US military superiority within a crisis model which is not financial. Both JPY and CHF are not as 'safe' in the assumed context as they once were, esp CHF. Whether Trump wants to be ...

Iranian officials: Killing of Qasem Soleimani could lead to war

Nor an indicator of mis-pricing of financial assets.

The $250 Trillion Burden Weighing On The Global Economy In 2020

Debt is a contract between consenting parties who, for such sums as these, surely focus the minds on default provisions, collateral and asset backing and especially only 10 years after the biggest financial crisis in world history. Typically such ...

The $250 Trillion Burden Weighing On The Global Economy In 2020

So you are selling Yen against the advice?

Now Is a Good Time to Buy the Yen Versus US Dollar, History Shows

You seem to agree that Yen is the better bet. Is that correct? USD has generally trended higher on index basis and I expect this to continue in H1 2020. USA policies have succeeded in slowing down GDP at the global level with associated higher spare ...

Now Is a Good Time to Buy the Yen Versus US Dollar, History Shows

We don't know where your here is unless you say and then we assume you are telling the truth. We are all sensitive to US news being the elephant in the room currently. Are you selling or buying Yen?

Now Is a Good Time to Buy the Yen Versus US Dollar, History Shows

Nothing of substance here with USD rates generally higher and AUDNZD stuck within familiar range recently favouring NZD. End of year no more exciting than the whole year. Hope 2020 has more substance.

NZD/USD - .6791 Next Upside Target, Weakens On Close Under .6671

Trump is no longer relevant to forex trading success. All the wrong decisions have already been made. If you think share index highs mean anything at all then I pity your expected returns on forex. And if you think record highs are due to politics ...

Nasdaq crosses 9,000, Dow and S&P 500 notch new highs as year-end rally rolls on

What most think is not able to be proven.

Gold's vs the US Dollar: Correlation Is Not What Most Think

Longest expansion followed sharpest crisis.

US dollar supported after upbeat U.S. data, pound steadies

All time highs for everything from global GDP, global population, global poverty, global profits, global pollution, weak journalism, USA fiscal deficit, US debt. Big explains nothing, all time highs explain nothing, merry christmas.

Christmas Rally Sees Stocks at All-Time Highs & Forex Pairs Retracing

Since there are only two policy regimes - WTO and 3 super power protectionism - it is unsurprising that those Super powers will work against WTO reforms which would in turn work against the economic and military power of the big 3. But this is not ...

WTO dysfunction

No news here just the same old policies for exactly the same old problems. Someone who fell asleep 15 to 20 years ago and just woke up would think he had only been asleep for 1 month. So Yen will continue to be a risk off play.

Japan cabinet approves record $939 billion budget spending plan for fiscal year 2020/21

Impeachment aside there is little if anything for traders in forex to get too excited about. The past 2 years have been wasted with many lost opportunities to add to a foundation of relative world peace, burgeoning world trade and increasingly open ...

Traders brushing aside US political risk as sentiment remains positive

Maybe 6 out of 10 for this article. Any report which starts with the world being in transition is very disappointing. The piece is a veneer for the name.

Outlook 2020: 7 Key Questions Answered

The reporter could not resist bringing out the irrelevant straight record comment at the end, not even part of the Fed comment. Share market indexes just track the size of the market so it's not amazing or creditworthy that it grows as the economy ...

Fed’s Rosengren says he isn’t worried about a recession

CHF is no longer a safe haven currency. Each month the SNB is telling you that it will intervene.

SNB President Jordan: At The Moment, A Further Cut Is Not Necessary

There are retail as well as wholesale participants in the market. When is the retail report due? And as a Kiwi I note that we do not have a retail market per se and maybe a Kiwi wholesale report is in the pipeline? Something is way out of line ...

ASIC reports on practices in wholesale foreign exchange markets