As widely forecast by Reuters and other news agencies, the FOMC, headed by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, announced at the conclusion of their two day meeting, that the committee took the decision to leave the key interest unchanged at 2.5%. It was during the press conference, held half an hour later, when equity and FX […]
On Thursday January 31st at 10:00am U.K. time, the latest data relating to the Eurozone’s GDP growth and performance will be released, by the official stats agency, Eurostats. The current annual GDP growth rate (up to Q3 2018) is 1.6%. The forecast, according to the economists polled by the Reuters news agency, is for a
After an approximate 1% sell off, shortly after the U.K. parliament passed a vote making a no deal Brexit more likely, GBP/USD stabilised in the overnight Sydney and Tokyo FX trading sessions. Both the U.K. mainstream media and the political circus surrounding Westminster, began to digest the news and quickly reached the conclusion that Mrs
Albert Einstein is credited with saying; “Compound interest is the eighth Wonder of the World. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn’t pays it!” In a financial world of low interest rates, a situation that’s existed for close to a decade- the potential for using relatively small trading accounts in order to make
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Trading successfully can often be described as a complete life skill and there are sections in the poem of Rudyard Kipling which relate to certain aspects of our trading; “If you can dream and not make dreams your master; if you can think and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with triumph
As a central bank, trying to balance the value of the currency for which your monetary policy is responsible for, is an incredibly difficult task. There’s a Goldilocks temperature; not too hot, not too cold, that’s just right for the economy. The value of the domestic currency has to: – encourage exports, – encourage imports,
“Taper tantrum” is the term used to refer to the 2013 surge in U.S. Treasury yields, which resulted from the Federal Reserve’s use of tapering to gradually reduce the amount of money it was feeding into the economy. Traders and investors may recall the phrase “taper tantrum”. The Fed was only considering cutting back on
Mario Draghi, the president of the ECB, is apparently concerned that the euro is too high versus USD. EUR/USD recently breached the 1.2500 handle for the first time in over three years, he’s concerned that at this level it may harm exports and damage the (fragile) recovery the Eurozone is in, which is only circa
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Discussions have raged since the birth of internet trading and the creation of trading forums, regarding which overarching trading style/method represents the best option for both new and part time traders. Is it scalping, day trading, swing trading, or longer term investment/position trading? All have merits, none are wrong and so many times we’ll read
The U.S. dollar crashed in 2017, the reasons were two fold involving Trump’s fiscal stimulus; the tax reform programme and the suggested infrastructure programme spend. Analysts and investors quickly “did the math” and calculated that the fiscal drag on the USA and as a consequence the USD, would be significant. The ten year cost of
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