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The votes are in and the forex tribe has spoken! Did your entry bag enough votes to win the Trade of the Week? Read on to find out!

Will risk appetite continue to dominate the markets? Brush up on your fundamentals and find out what lies ahead by reading my daily roundup!

A year has passed since Japan was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami. It may have taken some time but according to the Bank of Japan, things are starting to look brighter for the Land of the Rising Sun…

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!

Last day to catch some pips for the week, folks! Check out my economic commentary to see which reports could be worth trading today.

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.

And the dollar reigns supreme once again! Find out why the dollar got so much lovin’ by reading today’s roundup!

Watching the rise in US long-bond yields got me to wondering: What if the fall in the Japanese and Chinese current account surpluses continues, i.e. this trend is for real?

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.

Uh oh, it looks like the playing field is becoming more and more challenging for market makers as new regulations could cause banks to retreat from the forex industry. What does this mean for traders like you and me?

Wondering what caused those sharp moves on the charts yesterday? Wonder no more! Read all about what rocked the markets in my Daily Forex Fundamentals!

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?

Are you ready to trade the major economic reports coming our way today? Before you do, make sure you’re updated on what happened in the markets yesterday!

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?

Congratulations Jabroni. You are the winner of the Trade of the Week contest!

The dollar found itself at the top of the dog pile last Friday, but what does this week have in store for the forex markets? Let me tell you all about it in my economic roundup!

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?