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Bagged any pips yet this NFP week? If you haven’t, try reading up my daily forex fundamentals! Who knows? You might be missing something…

The minutes are out but that doesn’t mean the Fed is out of the limelight! With FOMC officials showing major concerns about the economy, it’s looking more and more like we’re about to see some action from the Fed!

Good day fellow forex fanatics! Are you all ready to start another day of catching pips? Here’s my daily forex fundamentals to get ya’ll in the trading mood!

Yesterday, while sitting comfortably in my living room, sipping a generous dram or two of 16-year Lagavulin (an Islay single malt scotch to the downtrodden who abstain from such pleasures), which I recently discovered and now think about constantly, I had the TV blaring subtly in the background; unfortunately it was tuned to CNBC.

After Naoto Kan’s resignation last Friday, Japan’s ruling party DPJ voted Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as the next party leader and most likely the next Prime Minister. Will he rise to the challenges that Kan left behind?

With risk appetite making a comeback, higher yielding currencies reigned supreme over the forex market yesterday! Can the safe havens bounce back today?

How about that? After all was said and done, it turns out that Big Ben Bernanke didn’t announce QE3 at the Jackson Hole Symposium last Friday. Then again, he didn’t exactly shut the door on it either…

The community has spoken! This week’s Trade of the Week belongs to…

Start the week right by reading up on the economic events that could shake the major currencies today. You don’t want to miss these opportunities to play the news!

With the yen consistently dominating other major currencies, I don’t think there is doubt anybody’s mind that that Japan’s verbal and currency intervention moves have failed.

Last August 23, Japan received a debt rating downgrade from Moody’s Investor Service. According to Moody’s, the primary reason behind their move was the huge increase in Japanese government debt since the 2009 global recession.

One last day to grab some pips before heading off for the weekend! Make sure you know what’s coming by checking out my daily forex fundamentals!

Jackson Hole this, Jackson Hole that! The newswires have been abuzz about the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium and how important it is. But what in the world is it anyway?

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The dollar strikes back! It rallied against almost all the major currencies yesterday, erasing some of its recent losses. Can it do the same today?

I think the title is clear. I ask because we’re starting to get wind of bubble-talk from the financial press et al. It is very similar to the talk we heard on silver earlier in the year when its price increases began looking parabolic.

Let’s face it. Social networking has become an essential part of our everyday lives, and forex brokers are starting to join the bandwagon. Let’s take a look at what these brokers have to offer!

The Loonie has been one of the top performing currencies year-to-date. Due to contagion fears in the euro zone, debt ceiling debates in the U.S., and rising oil prices, the Loonie has managed to edge higher versus other major currencies. With those problems behind us now, we must ask ourselves, “Is the Loonie still a good bet?”

Come one, come all! Read up on my daily forex fundamentals and know what’s on tap in what could be a wild Wednesday in the markets!

It seems like Greece can learn a thing or two from Pip Diddy about how to not play favorites! Like a bunch of toddlers quarreling over a piece of candy, some Euro zone countries are a throwing a fit over the collateral Greece gave to Finland. Could this fall out lead to a Greek default?