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Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann continued his campaign to curb the ECB's ambitions. "Instead of suggesting ever more reckless monetary policy experiments, it would make sense to pause," he told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper...

Yellen dealt a heavy blow to the FX divergence trade and sent USD falling across the board. We doubt that this is the end of the multi-year USD bull-run, however, and see the current levels as an opportunity to establish fresh longs...

The US dollar had a difficult week...

Stocks are catching spring fever The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 officially wiped out their year-to-date losses this week, as the weight of the Fed was lifted from investors' shoulders...

• Gold Dip Holds Key 1230 Price • Gold Price Jumps and USD Slides after Dovish Signal from the FedGold prices traded higher this week, with the precious metal advancing 0.58% to trade at 1256 ahead of the New York close on Friday. Despite broader strength in the U.S...

The dollar has taken a surprisingly big stumble in recent weeks, prompting traders to ask: What’s really driving the selloff? The answer some are coming up with smacks of conspiracy theory...

European Central Bank officials are treading a tortuous path on future interest-rate cuts, signaling they probably won't push rates further below zero--but still leaving wide open the possibility that they might...

The AUD/USD continued to soar Thursday/Friday, reaching a nine-month high on the back of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s dovish comments about interest rates. To recap, the Fed held interest rates steady on Thursday in a widely expected move...

Three months since the U.S. lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports, American crude is flowing to virtually every corner of the market and reshaping the world’s energy map. Overseas sales, which started on Dec. 31 with a small cargo aboard the Theo T tanker, have been picking up speed...

After the volatility in the wake of the unexpectedly dovish FOMC decision, the dollar is beginning to claw back some of the recent losses as markets look to settle down a touch...

More short-term USD weakness. "The dovish Fed – discouraging USD bulls – has led to a de-positioning move supporting the once shunned currencies. GBP, AUD and many emerging market currencies fall into this category...

Artificial intelligence is poised to automate lots of service jobs. The White House has estimated there's an 83% chance that someone making less than $20 will eventually lose their job to a computer. That means gigs like customer service rep could soon be extinct...

Filling out a bracket for the NCAA championship basketball tournament is an annual highlight for sports fans like myself...

Earlier this week, we wrote a piece on the AUD/USD highlighting the potential for a pullback after China's industrial production growth eased more than expected (click HERE for details...

After a dovish outlook from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, JP Morgan's chief US economist Michael Feroli cut his forecast for the number of interest rate hikes by the FOMC in 2016 to 2...

Talk of the BOJ doing a ring-around Here we go with the intervention stuff. For those that don't know the drill, the BOJ like to pick up the phone to banks just to ask the rate. That's usually enough to have the market covering for fear of real intervention...

The U.S. Federal Reserve's latest economic projections contain an encoded message crucial to understanding the central bank's policies: Inflation has been stuck below the Fed's target in part because officials don’t actually want to get it back up...

The chart below shows the US dollar index over the past 40 years together with its longer term moving average, as well as one and two standard deviation bands...

EUR/USD: Bullish: Take partial profit at 1.1245. The overnight high has been 1.1242 which was just below the 1.1245 target that was first indicated last Friday...