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It looks like risk aversion has extended its stay in the markets, although the Australian dollar managed to chalk up a few forex wins. Here’s why.

Geronimooo! Thanks to a lack of major economic data, forex traders turned their focus to risk sentiment. Which major currencies grabbed the headlines yesterday?

London session forex traders spiked up volatility right from the open, but direction has been pretty mixed with a near empty economic calendar.

Newsflash! The U.S. economy boasted of yet another month of impressive employment gains, as the December NFP reading beat expectations. What’s next for the U.S. economy and the dollar?

With Japanese banks closed on a holiday for today, forex price movements were relatively subdued in today’s Asian session. Can volatility pick up soon?

Ooomph! The Greenback took a few steps back in last Friday’s U.S. forex trading session after traders paid attention to weak U.S. wage growth.

Forex volatility picked up in the morning London session thanks to a very heavy European region calendar covering mostly industrial, manufacturing, and trade data.

During this week’s BOE statement, Governor Carney’s tone suggested that the U.K. central bank isn’t likely to hike rates anytime this year. Here are some reasons why.

Higher-yielders were off to a shaky start in today’s Asian trading session but managed to end higher against the U.S. dollar as risk appetite returned to the forex market. What’s next?

Not so fast! High-yielding currencies tried to get momentum in the early U.S. forex trading session, but was blocked by dollar bulls a few hours before the close.

Forex volatility picks up, the euro takes another hit and risk sentiment remains positive in a data heavy morning London session.

And the minutes are out! Find out what FOMC officials discussed during their latest monetary policy meeting and what this might mean for the dollar’s forex price action moving forward.

Is risk appetite back on? Commodity currencies advanced against the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen in the past few hours, as forex traders reacted to the latest set of reports.

Just in case you’ve been stranded in outer space for the last several weeks, you probably didn’t realize the price of oil has been heading south.

Not this time! Just when we thought the Greenback was going to have another good forex trading session, the Fed meeting minutes provided high-yielding currencies opportunities to recoup some of their losses.

Another tough day for the eurozone, this time on fresh reads of lower in inflation in Europe, pushing forex traders to sell more euros in the London session

Heads up, forex fellas! We’ve got a couple of employment reports set for release on Friday so y’all better read up and figure out how to make pips off these events.

No data? No problem! Not even the lack of top-tier data in the Asian trading session was enough to stop forex pairs from moving around, with the U.S. dollar chalking up mixed reviews.

With all that’s going on in Russia these days, I’m pretty sure you’ve considered trading the ruble at one point or another. But is it really worth adding the Russian ruble to your forex watch list?

Flight to safety reigned supreme during the U.S. forex trading session, as traders continued to price in risk aversion. Which currencies strengthened and which ones weakened?