The USDJPY has been increasing since the last week of November and is now monitoring stronger levels below 114 yen for one single dollar note. The yen is getting weaker but remains way too strong for the Bank of Japan to start normalizing its monetary policy...
Many market participants expected that the introduction of Bitcoin futures trading would trigger a sharp correction, as it would be finally possible to take short positions. In fact, the opposite happened, the price soared more than 20% and returned above the $17,000 threshold...
The Swiss franc keeps on weakening against the euro and is now trading below 1.17. Late last July the EUR/CHF pair jumped from 1.10 to 1.15 and since the pair continues rising. This morning the sight deposits have been released and it seems that at current levels, the SNB is less under pressure...
The US dollar has been rallying strongly since the market opening this morning. The greenback extended gains against all its G10 peers, rising the most against the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc (+0.65% both), the New Zealand dollar (+0.45%) and the Swedish krona (+0.38...
The US labor market report next Friday should have lesser importance for once. Given how solid US economic data has been of late, a Federal Reserve rate hike in December seems highly likely and is almost fully priced by markets...
For economists, the end of the year is often a gentle wind-down. This is not the case in 2017. The dullest event is the US Federal Reserve meeting (December 13). The Fed has basically told markets that there will be a 0.25 percent rate increase. Markets, for once, have listened...
Now that the Bitcoin has reached 10k dollar. Speculation regarding its futures are reaching a climax. Some sees it at 1 million dollar like John Mcafee who in a tweet declared that he was increasing its forecast on the digital currency...
After a promising start into the week, the greenback is back in the doldrums as investors scale down their long USD positions. After rising as much as 0.75% during the week, the dollar index reversed gains and returned at around 92.80 on Friday morning...
While the market focus is clearly on Crypto currencies conditions are steady improving for EM FX. Constructive global backdrop including improved risk appetite and strong growth will send investors deeper into select EM currencies...
Yesterday, Janet Yellen spoke in front of Congressional leaders amid the release of the US GDP data, which as expected, climbed to 3-year high. The end of Yellen’s mandate is near as the current Fed Chair is going to be replaced next year by Jerome Powell...
The second read of the US GDP will be released this afternoon and should be around 3%. The data remains strong and as we mentioned several times over the last few weeks, the inflation is also on the rise. However, markets have recently punished the greenback against the US dollar...
The price of Bitcoin broke another record yesterday as it crosses the symbolic $10,000 threshold. Not content to stop here, Bitcoin continued to rally during the Asian session and tested the $11,000 level...
Bitcoin despite being declared dead hundreds of times since its creation in 2009 has now almost reached 10’000 dollars. It represents definitely a lot of money but there are only going to 21 million bitcoins after all the Bitcoin will have been mined after 2020...
The potential new head of the Fed confirmation hearing start today. Ahead of the Senate hearing on Tuesday Jerome Powell provided a clear statements indicted that his views were incline with current FOMC strategy. The statement indicated that Yellen’s policy path will be continue under Powell...
The Euro-dollar is back to two-month high despite the fact that the Fed will almost certainly raise rates in December. The pair is now trading above 1.19 dollar for one single euro coin. The ongoing political crisis in Germany did not have any impact yet on the single currency...
The South African rand took a hit on Friday following the downgrade of the country’s credit rating. Standard & Poor’s lowered further the long-term foreign currency sovereign rating into “junk” territory, to “BB” from “BB+”...
China's Central Economic Work Conference is a few weeks away. The meeting will set out economic policy aims. This matters a lot. China is changing, and the world around China is changing. China's debt growth is likely to be a focus at the conference...
A wave of inflation, GDP and PMI releases are scheduled for the week ahead. CIO expects a benign picture that promotes growth-related currencies like the euro, the CAD and the SEK. Tuesday, 28. November DEU GfK Consumer Sentiment (December; prior: 10.7) JAP Retail Sales YY (October; prior: 2.2...
Financial markets always tend to closely monitor German’s economic data not only because the country is always acting as the locomotive of the European economy but also because the current political uncertainties currently occurring in Germany...
