Forex Gump

Move over, Brangelina – a new power couple is shaking up the newswires! Yesterday, Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicholas Sarkozy – dubbed as “Merkozy” – boosted risk appetite by calling for stricter measures in the EU treaty.

After seeing a strong NFP headline figure AND a surprise drop in the U.S. unemployment rate, you would think that investors would push high-yielding currencies to new intraweek highs. So why didn’t we see a huge rally last Friday? Here are three possible reasons.

What is this “Santa Claus rally” that everyone seems to buzzing about lately? Could this be your chance to grab some pips before the year ends? You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout and I’ll tell you why!

Six central banks shocked the markets this week when they decided to join forces to prevent a credit crunch. What exactly did they do? How do they plan to carry it out? And what does this mean for the global economy? Read on to find out!

I was reading news about the euro zone debt crisis on Reuters the other day and I came across an article that detailed the events that followed after Greece received its first bailout package. I wanted to share it with my readers so I converted it to something more easily understandable. Check it out!

Mark your calendars, ladies and gents! NFP Friday is just around the corner! Let’s put the euro zone debt drama aside for a moment and shift our attention back to the U.S. labor market.

These markets are no different from tweenage girls, I tell ya! They love gossip too! Yesterday, word got around that Italy might get a 600 billion EUR loan from the International Monetary Fund. Naturally, this sparked a broad risk rally and got the markets all riled up. But is there any truth to these rumors?

After launching at least four currency interventions since September last year, is the Bank of Japan now thinking outside the box and looking for other ways to intervene in the markets? Here’s why the BOJ might be considering stealth intervention from overseas.

It seems that even though a whole year has passed, not much has changed in the euro zone. Here’s a look at what happened late last year, and my take on what could happen this time around.

Yen crosses can produce big, sharp moves and shower you with pips, but they can also chew you up and spit you out faster than you can say “Stopped out!” As such, you have to be extra careful when trading these cross currency pairs. There are three things in particular that you have to consider when trading yen crosses.