Federal Reserve started the wave of USD weakening

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The American Fed Reserve managed to cause weakening of its own currency. On Wednesday dollar turned downwards that reflected in EURUSD rise to 1.1250 area on Monday. The same levels are highs of the previous two weeks. Moreover, the current levels are close again to the resistance line of the downtrend, which turned the pair in August and September. Hence, the current marks represent important resistance area. Now it will not be easy for the dollar to turn back to growth, since the key event – Fed Reserve meeting – has shown not that firm attitude of committee members as expected more…

The silence of G20 enables JPY to depreciate

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Last weekend there was held a meeting of G20 central bank governors and finance ministers. The representatives of the largest countries, constituting about 85% of the global economy, focused on stimulation of economic growth. Nothing was said about currency movements. Thus, the current rally of the dollar received a tacit approval, so the bulls may gain the lead, at least for a while. Now USDX is trading near its two-year highs. Then growth of the dollar was explained by weakness of the single currency. And now it is USD’s rally, aroused by expectations of the monetary policy tightening and of impressive more…

EUR moved away from the extremums

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In the absence of important news players tried to take profits from the preceding growth in the pair. Because of that the pair moved away from the extremums and hit 1.3900 this morning. Today the markets will be focused on Draghi’s speech at the press-conference after the rate decision. It’s quite possible that we will hear again about readiness to act and that the continuous low inflation will be pernicious for the economic growth. Not only the market participants, but also journalists of every stripe and colour have been long in the know about this chapter of economic theory and as more…

EUR to be talked down

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The brief disappointment with the poor French statistics and further enthusiasm aroused by the German and EU data made yesterday’s European session quite volatile. After the release of the French data EURUSD tumbled down to 1.38, but then within an hour it grew by half a figure. However, bulls failed to hold even this level. By the end of the day the pair still slipped down towards 1.3815. After 10 days of flat trading the single currency seems to react more nervously to the news, but yet has enough strength to return to its former levels. It is all about absence more…

Rehabilitated risk-demand

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Despite the tangible pressure, which had weighed upon the single currency in the first half of the day, the US session again was marked by purchases of the euro and in the US stock markets. By the end of the day stock indices had entered the positive territory and by now futures have already recouped two thirds of the correction, which have been in place since the end of the previous week. EURUSD got above 1.39 during the New-York session yesterday and has been steadily trading above this level since then. It was caused by comments of Germany’s Finance Minister Schäuble. more…