Submitted Mar 4, 2014|From marketpulse.com

News, innuendo, rumor or fact has Capital Markets on the back-foot. Being a nimble forex speculator can pay dividends, however, for most investors they have preferred to be prudently cautious and have applied some safe haven strategies rather than ...

Submitted Mar 3, 2014|From marketpulse.com|4 comments

Russia's Central Bank has been active and more aggressive than Putin so far. The CBR unexpectedly raised interest rates by +150bps this morning in an attempt obviously to support the 'Motherlands' plummeting RUB. It's been rumored that they have ...

Submitted Mar 1, 2014|From marketpulse.com

For many months, the market has been talking up the Chinese yuan with many speculators believing that the psychological six handle was going to be breached sometime soon, as in the first half of this year. It seems that policymakers at the People’s ...

Submitted Feb 28, 2014|From marketpulse.com|6 comments

Coming into this week, a percentage of the market was perhaps expecting Draghi and company to be a tad more proactive next week and get back into that 'easing' cycle of theirs. However, with today's Euro inflation numbers and stellar German retail ...

Submitted Feb 24, 2014|From marketpulse.com|1 comment

All the Euro action seemed to be taking place Down under over the past few days. The ECB's Draghi signaled this weekend that next month's highly anticipated policy meeting could be the one – the one "critical in determining whether the ECB will ...

Submitted Feb 22, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Canada released two conflicting data points at the same time on Friday – retail sales and inflation. The loonie briefly gained support from only one release and that was the news that Canadian January inflation topped expectations with the all item ...

Submitted Feb 22, 2014|From marketpulse.com

"Make hay while the sun shines" – that's what investors should be focusing on. The block of Asian currencies are no different as they end the week broadly stronger (MYR, INR and KWN are a few examples). Some of the 'lost' risk appetite being ...

Submitted Feb 20, 2014|From marketpulse.com|6 comments

Finally, the mighty dollar has found some needed love again. The majority of weak dollar long positions have had to endure a few weeks of underwhelming US economic reports. Economic underperformance had many investors wading to the sidelines, ...

Submitted Feb 15, 2014|From marketpulse.com|9 comments

Should we be concerned about the rumors of a pending credit crunch in China? The beauty of a one-party system is its political flexibility. With authorities having the power and ability to strike a balance quickly between reforms to its financial ...

Submitted Feb 14, 2014|From marketpulse.com

This week, Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen, performed admirably during her Congressional testimony before the House of Representatives. Investors and politicians were looking for any sign of potential weakness in the Fed’s new chief after she ...

Submitted Feb 10, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The first trading session after a non-farm payroll report, especially a disappointing one, historically tends to be the quietest in the month. However, investors do not have much time to diddle as the forex option market and their 'vols' are ...

Submitted Feb 7, 2014|From marketpulse.com|11 comments

Investors and dealers live for market volatility, it creates trading opportunity, and today's North American jobs reports should not disappoint even the neutral observer. The release of last month's December reports for the US and Canada came in ...

Submitted Feb 4, 2014|From marketpulse.com|1 comment

Welcome to the NFP dollar contained trading range. Despite it being a week laden with Central Bank decisions, the main event still remains Friday's US jobs report. Was last months weather write-off feasible and justified? Investors seem relatively ...

Submitted Feb 3, 2014|From marketpulse.com

This is an event-laden week for capital markets, with a few central banks expected to bare teeth when it comes to their own monetary policy decisions (RBA, BoE and ECB). Already in overnight action, the holiday-thinned market in Asia has been ...

Submitted Jan 30, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Tapering is not tightening – this well versed Fed fact seems to have fallen on deaf ears when you mention emerging market currencies. However, if you include some Chinese manufacturing contraction and dour employment numbers from the world's second ...

Submitted Jan 28, 2014|From marketpulse.com

It seems that the emerging markets are not sick enough for the rest of the world to be concerned about just yet. This appears to be the consensus view amongst analysts just as investors consider testing the waters again. Only time will tell if any ...

Submitted Jan 24, 2014|From marketpulse.com

A deteriorating Chinese economy is rattling investor confidence. The January flash Markit/HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index revealed a downturn in China’s manufacturing sector for the first time in six months, falling to 49.6 in January from 50.5 in ...

Submitted Jan 22, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The IMF yesterday maintained its October forecast for the Canadian economy to grow 2.2% this year, and this despite world growth improving. The static forecast has pushed Canada down the pecking order by one notch, to third amongst the G7 members. ...

Submitted Jan 21, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments

The majority of investors want to wait and see what the Fed has to offer at next weeks FOMC meeting before taking the plunge. The rest have managed to invest in a not so quiet forex market, where a number of currencies are beginning to test their ...