The bearish market for Oil

EUR/USD

The pressure on the dollar failed to last for all day long yesterday. EURUSD was reversed near 1.2800 and pushed off to 1.2665 during the New-York session. This decline made up for almost all losses suffered on the release of FOMC’s minutes. Now the pair is close to the support level of the short-term trend. If in the coming hours bears become more active and manage to push the pair below yesterday’s lows, the dollar will be strong enough to resume its rally and continue growing in accordance with the fundamental indicators. However, should the upward movement continue, we will probably more…

FOMC fears growth of USD

EUR/USD

The Fed’s minutes showed that FOMC is in a more peaceful mood than expected. As seen from the comments, published yesterday closer to the end of the US session, the Committee feared that changes in the comments would be taken in the wrong way by the market. As you remember, in September many expected that FOMC wouldn’t mention that the rates would stay low for ‘a considerable time’ any more. The forecasts contain fears that the slowdown of the global growth can affect the closeness of the US monetary policy tightening as slower growth results in the increased demand for the more…

AUD and JPY are temporarily stronger than USD

EUR/USD

Neither bulls nor bears managed to push the market out of the existing trading range. The slowdown of growth and further short-term weakness of the single currency dropped the pair only to 1.2584. And though hardly anyone doubts the dollar’s ability to continue growth, traders are simply too weak for such a step. For the next attack they need to store more liquidity. And this happens when the rate floats or consolidates. The example of this can be the period from the beginning of August till its middle. At that time after the consolidation within 1.3350-1.3400 the pair tumbled down below more…

Scotland supported Britain and helped the markets

EUR/USD

All day long yesterday the single currency was taking painful attempts to recover after the mess made by FOMC’s intention to introduce a tougher monetary policy than expected. It also must have been to the advantage of the single currency that the demand at the TLTRO auction , which the ECG conducted for the first time, proved to be lower than forecasted. The analysts, surveyed by Bloomberg, expected bids for approximately €175bln, while the actual demand proved to be twice as low, making 82.6bln. It means that banks don’t hurry to make 4-year loans at quite a low interest rate of more…

FOMC intends to act with decision

EUR/USD

The Fed is preparing the markets for a more dramatic increase of interest rates from the beginning of toughening. Besides, Fed Chair, despite all vagueness of her comments, made it clear that the markets were underestimating closeness of rate increases. It can be treated as a promise of the first increase already in the first 3-4 months of the next year instead of the middle of the year as expected earlier. It seems that Janet Yellen tried to imitate Greenspan, making obscure comments and leaving herself more space for maneuver. If she starts to imitate not only Greenspan’s manner of wording, more…