Hard times are coming. The USA are summarizing disastrous data on employment growth; Europe and China are with hopes for recovery and new Greek debts. The power of the current bull dollar trend raises doubt for the first time in 9 months. At the same time, it is now that ECB needs euro strengthening...

Yen continues to grow against dollar. It can be explained by a number of factors - weakening of dollar, fall of oil prices, ending of the financial year, finally, by tradition. However, externally, the situation with yen does not dispose to that. Regarding dollar, it is clear that the terms of raisi...

The main event of the previous week: FRS predictably retained its interest rate and removed the term "patience" from its protocols trying to clarify the situation regarding increase periods and ... US dollar fell dramatically. Most traders and analysts were hardly "surprised" so much regarding the r...

This week, FOMC meeting will monopolize general attention, although American rates are becoming less interesting for the market. Last week, all the key persons made their public statements: Fischer, Bullard, Lagarde, Mester - all of them have nurtured prices before the event. It is clear that rate ...

The market moves to the pre-New year slumber, and only several provokers are active in small volumes - the time has come to think about "perspective" problems. Even wise Alan Greenspan tried to outsmart the market through manipulations with interest rates. The 1999 situation also had cheap raw mater...

In present-day conditions, any currency tries to become weaker against dollar, thus hoping to avoid deflation. Pound also supports that tendency. Besides that fact that the current statistics and the Bank of England meeting protocols did not add light in the obscure issue regarding rate increase dat...

There is an opinion that Switzerland is quite well off for its franc to be the guaranteed reserve currency. The country is the largest external creditor, which puts the national economy into multidimensional dependence on the reliability of such ties. The upcoming "gold" referendum organized in orde...

The historical moment of FRS ending the last QE round, instead of quiet analysis of lessons learnt from that experiment, brought a new economic abnormality to the currency market - the program of asset-purchase expansion by the Bank of Japan. It is difficult to live in the time of revolutions, but t...

Last week, dollar reached its three-week maximum against main currencies. It was caused by unexpected growth of the US GDP in the third quarter, which is, again, a significant confirmation that the decision to stop quantitative easing program was rational. In general, analysts come to the conclusion...