Forex Gump

Just as everyone and his momma expected, the Federal Reserve officially announced the beginning of QE3 at its latest FOMC statement last Thursday. Read on to find out more about how this round of quantitative easing measures up and how it affects the Greenback!

The Kiwi may not have reacted strongly to the RBNZ’s interest rate decision, but the central bank was still able to serve up a pretty substantial statement for us to ponder on. Keep yourself in the know by reading my RBNZ interest rate statement review!

Unlike the iPhone 5 announcement which left much to be desired, the German Constitutional Court did not disappoint market watchers as it allowed the ESM ratification to push through. What does this mean for the euro?

Chill out, folks! You won’t have to wait much longer. We’ll finally find out if the Fed will push through with QE3 in its FOMC statement tomorrow!

If you think price action on the euro will die down now that the ECB rate decision is done and over with, you’re mistaken, bub!

Friday’s fireworks are over and after blowing through the smoke, it isn’t quite as pretty a sight as the markets were expecting. Could this be spark the Fed needs to light the QE3 match?

For today’s edition of Piponomics, I’m gonna review one of the most interesting economic reports released this past week–Australia’s jobs report. How can both the unemployment rate and the total number of employed go down?

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi finally revealed his hand last Thursday when he detailed the central bank’s latest bond-buying program.

So the BOC decided to keep its key rate at 1.00% and repeated talk of withdrawing stimulus… What’s new?

Tomorrow, at 12:30 pm GMT, one of the most important economic reports, the U.S. employment report, will be released. The result will be more significant than usual as it could be the deciding factor whether the Fed will implement QE3 or not.