Forex Gump

It looks like France is stepping up its game! Nope, I’m not talking about the Rugby World Cup. Aside from working on an agreement with Germany to address the debt crisis, France is also helping out Belgium recapitalize its largest bank.

Boo! Credit rating agencies sure know how to ruin the fun! Just when we thought EUR/USD was heading back above 1.3500, Fitch announced two downgrades that sent the euro crashing down the charts.

Surprise, surprise! Despite the downbeat forecasts, the U.S. employment report turned frowns upside down as it printed better than expected figures. But are those jobs figures really worth the hype or have our expectations simply gone down?

After eight years of heading the ECB, Jean-Claude Trichet is ready to hang his Armani suit for a polo shirt and khaki shorts to sail the Caribbean. So what did the always calm and collected Trichet say in his last statement as the head honcho of the ECB?

After 22 months of sitting on their hands, the Bank of England (BOE) finally decided that it was time to act and give the U.K.’s economy a much-needed boost. On Thursday during their interest rate announcement, the BOE shocked the markets with a 75 billion GBP stimulus program.

With European banks heavily exposed to bonds of struggling euro zone economies, European finance ministers have been talking about bank recapitalization. Read on to find out what those economic braniacs have been discussing!

Heads up traders! It’s that time of the month again when the most-anticipated economic data will be released. Of course, I’m talking about the monthly U.S. employment report! Here’s how you can make money trading it!

If you find yourself still losing your trades despite good fundamental and technical bases, then you might be neglecting your sentimental analysis! Here are three tools you can use to up your game in trading.

It’s NFP week again, fellas, so I thought of getting a head start on finding out how the U.S. labor market is doing. With the so-called American jobs depression still worsening, can the labor market turn to the U.S. government for a solution?

In a few hours the U.S. Senate will vote on a legislation that would impose adjusted tariffs on Chinese imports. Why is there a need for such a bill, and how will it affect the U.S. economy?