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- Submitted Nov 28, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Energy prices continue to make records. Today, OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is back calling the shots, and putting the squeeze on global crude producers, commodity currencies, trade balances and Russia in particular, ...
- Submitted Nov 27, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Some of the main central banks continue to eye handcuffing investors to a low rate environment throughout the first half of 2015. The current exception to the loose monetary policy regime will be the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England (BoE) in ...
- Submitted Nov 26, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Central bank interest rate divergence, geopolitical events, and global growth expectations have been the three primary drivers of FX market volatility in late 2014, and these themes will continue to dominate the currency trade well into 2015. With ...
- Submitted Nov 21, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments

Currency markets are hopping on Friday following two earth-shattering developments courtesy of European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC). The EUR (€1.2438) took a sharp turn lower after Draghi’s speech ...
- Submitted Nov 19, 2014|From marketpulse.com

In today’s economic climate Central banks are never too far away from the heart of any forex move, and again overnight has been no exception. Monetary policy guidance, economic reassessment and policy makers’ outright voting results are influencing ...
- Submitted Nov 14, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Economic figures out of China this week under performed putting into question the now lofty goal of achieving 7.5% GDP growth in 2014. Industrial production and retail sales missed expectations even though they posted growth but the final number was ...
- Submitted Nov 14, 2014|From marketpulse.com|20 comments

Not helping the greenback this Friday’s were the comments from St. Louis Fed Bullard and this weekend’s G20 meet. Bullard is worried about the impact of a gradual U.S rate hike. With wages a lagging indicator for inflation, he does not expect to see ...
- Submitted Nov 13, 2014|From marketpulse.com

This market is a natural U.S dollar lover, nevertheless, investors are still searching for an incentive to help kick start the “buck” to regain focus and begin the next leg-higher. The U.S dollars rise over the past few weeks is indication that the ...
- Submitted Nov 11, 2014|From marketpulse.com|19 comments

It’s near impossible to keep a good thing down and the U.S. dollar is not exempt from that fact, having found its way again after a somewhat disappointing nonfarm payroll (NFP) report last Friday. Today’s partial market holiday in the U.S., Canada, ...
- Submitted Nov 10, 2014|From marketpulse.com

It’s a new day and a new week; nevertheless, the overextended U. S dollar ‘long’ positions remain under pressure on this Monday morning, mostly in the wake of the slightly disappointing non-farm-payroll print last Friday. Historically, the first ...
- Submitted Nov 7, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The highly anticipated North American jobs data releases did not disappoint, both volume and intraday volatility saw an uptick on the back of mixed results either side of the US/Canada border. The Canadian report again surprised the market, with the ...
- Submitted Nov 6, 2014|From marketpulse.com|5 comments

Finally, the market is atop of the two major market event risks this week – this morning’s ECB press conference with President Draghi (13:30GMT) and tomorrow’s U.S NFP details. Investors are expected to get the biggest bang for their ‘buck’ from ...
- Submitted Nov 5, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments

The eurozone and the United Kingdom may be bound by virtue of the European Union, but the two regions are on vastly different paths with respect to economic recovery following the 2008 credit crisis and the Great Recession that laid the world low. ...
- Submitted Nov 3, 2014|From marketpulse.com

In Capital Markets it’s another busy week for central banks with the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank holding their regular policy-setting meetings. Governor Stevens at the RBA will get to put the market ...
- Submitted Oct 31, 2014|From marketpulse.com

It was too good to be true for the loonie. With commodities under pressure it has been somewhat of an aberration to see commodity and interest rate sensitive currencies like the AUD, NZD and CAD holding it together for so long. While gold, crude, ...
- Submitted Oct 31, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The forex space has been waiting some time for a plethora of monetary and policy reasons to once again ignite currency moves. For too long, CBanks no-nonsense, low rate approach had been curtailing currency ranges. The Fed’s end to tapering this ...
- Submitted Oct 30, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The Fed ended QE3 as expected, but has caught the market off guard with a definite “hawkish” tint in the statement delivered yesterday. Technically, the FOMC has finally closed the door on QE with the $15b taper; however, never say never as bookies ...
- Submitted Oct 29, 2014|From marketpulse.com|7 comments

The majority is anticipating that US policy makers will err on the side of caution in this afternoon’s policy statement. In translation, the impact of the FOMC on the currency market could be rather small as the Fed is not likely to mention a ...
- Submitted Oct 23, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Investors around the globe continue to look for signs about the economic health of major economies. Preliminary factory and service output started being reported by Markit and HSBC yesterday night. The flash Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) in China ...
- Submitted Oct 21, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The EUR/USD continues to drive towards 1.29. Disappointing US Retail sales and global economic malaise have the market convinced that the Federal Reserve will push their first rate hike further down 2015. Based on Chair Yellen’s first post FOMC ...