Forex Gump

The SNB’s quarterly monetary policy assessment came and went, and I’m sure you’ve heard that it was no dud! Read on to find out how you can use it as a guide to trading EUR/CHF!

The dollar’s recent rally has got everyone raving! In fact, some market junkies even think that what we saw this week could be the start of a new trend. They say that the dollar could already be losing its safe haven appeal… in a good way!

It’s not every day that the U.S. dollar breaks away from its safe-haven reputation. Let me show you how the past couple of days have been perfect examples showing the Treasury bond yields-U.S. dollar correlation.

Uh-oh, it looks like the EU is tightening its belt on its budget deficit rules! Here’s why Hungary and Spain are first in its line of fire.

Just like the NCAA tournament, we’ve got some March Madness going on in the U.S. banking industry, as the U.S. Federal Reserve is about to conduct its next round of bank stress tests! Do U.S. banks have what it takes to withstand another recession?

Now that EU officials have kicked Greece’s can down the road, market players are turning their attention to other euro zone economies. Which countries are the next likely candidates for a Greek-style debt crisis?

Talks about the Chinese yuan becoming the next global reserve currency have been around since Robopip was just a baby cyborg. Now a recent move by the Chinese government has once again gotten economic gurus excited about the currency’s prospects of it rivaling the dollar’s reserve currency status.

The final GDP revision is in! For the fourth quarter of 2011, euro zone’s economy absolutely and indubitably shrank by 0.3%.

The talk of the forex town a couple days ago was a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that claimed the Fed is considering a new type of bond-buying program. Did the WSJ just spill the beans on the Fed?

Disappointed with “the new iPad?” Don’t worry. Word around the markets is that you can still get your socks knocked off with February’s NFP report!