Market News

Thanks to risk aversion, the dollar and the yen ruled the markets last week. With a bunch of labor market reports due this week, is a sentiment shift in the cards? Find out what’s coming out on today’s economic roundup!

To the global media, South Africa is presented as a multi-cultural success story it seems. To me, the country appears about two-clicks away from major turmoil.

Wild price swings ahead! The grand mama of economic reports, the US NFP, is on deck today!

Below is a fairly straight forward third-party article, passed on to us by a reader, on why its author thinks you should be bullish on China.

Its payrolls Friday tomorrow and we all know what this means – a lot of volatility! Will we finally see an uptick in employment this time around?

The greenback brought “Sexy Back” yesterday as US dollar bulls took control. Would the other majors have a chance to bounce back today? Read my daily economic roundup to find out!

My father in law wrote yesterday to give me grief about my recent gold forecast/guess as laid out in a recent Currency Currents.

With the BOE MPC statement coming out tomorrow, the King and his merry men are set to decide on the fate of the British economy. Will they say aye or nay for further QE?

Looks like traders followed the beat of risk appetite in yesterday’s action! With high impact reports due tonight, will the dollar bust a move or get busted once again?

Not so fast … hold on a second … on the other hand … in hindsight … although … looking back … but considering the fact … in light of …

The “wait-and-see” sickness has finally got to the Land Down Under. Yep, you heard me… In a surprising move, the Reserve Bank of Australia recently announced their decision to keep the interest rate unchanged.

It looks like the currencies began this week on a firm note, trading higher against the dollar. Another chance for the dollar bulls to buy at a cheaper price? With the amount of high-impact economic data coming up, it’d best to be prepared!

Holy mother of the FX market, did you see the numbers on that thing?! I’m referring, of course, to the Advanced US GDP report released last Friday. It revealed that the American economy expanded 5.7% during the final quarter of 2009, marking its fastest pace of growth in six whole years! Sexy!

The dollar ruled last week’s foreign exchange. Will it continue to do so again this week? Find out and see our daily economic roundup!

There’s a storm brewing in the US retail Forex industry as I’m sure you’ve seen across forex forums, or even from your brokers, about the proposed rule changes coming down from the CFTC on the US Forex industry. What are they and how could it help or hurt you?

I just love the Mae West quote above. Funny thing is that many gold bugs cling to the belief (any many marketers who should know better validate said belief) that someday we may return to a gold standard.

Safe-haven currencies had a blast yesterday as risk aversion extended its stay in the markets. With more top-tier economic reports due today, how will the major currencies behave? Find out on my daily roundup!

Our Federal Reserve has chosen to leave interest rates unchanged again as the path to US recovery is still dependent (perhaps psychologically) on cheap money.

With Big Ben’s status as Fed Chairman still hanging in the balance, the FOMC stuck to their usual “cautiously optimistic” spiel during their recent rate statement. Well, I’m tired of the same old speech from the Fed… I think they’ve been reading from a script that’s almost a year old!

Need to know what economic reports are coming out today? Don’t worry – I got your back!