The global mood is souring but we keep the talk alive with mitigating the minutes from the Fed, explaining the can kicking exercise known as the Greek Bailout III and the commodity crash. Don’t worry, China is omnipresent in all topics and in…
The FOMC concluded its meeting and released another statement that didn’t offer much new information about the timing of the first historic rate hike. I know what you think – shocker! Well to be fair, there were modest changes to…
The US returns to the limelight with the Fed decision and the first release of US GDP. What are the implications for the dollar? Before diving into this, we analyze the impact of the Greek elections for the euro in the short…
ECB QE is here and it’s big: we run down the event and the impact before circling back to the big hint we received for this one week before from the SNB, focusing on the impact on brokers. The moves are of course…
Markets are moving fast and there’s a lot talk about: a dive into Draghi’s determined drive, an explanation about the plunge of the yen, a look forward into big events in the UK and a look at Brazil. Welcome to…
In this episode, we preview the big events that are expected to rock markets in September: Non-Farm Payrolls, the Fed decision, the highly anticipated ECB drama and quite a few other releases that move currencies and commodities. The episode begins with a…
Here is another test episode of Market Movers, presented by Lior Cohen of Trading NRG and Yohay Elam of Forex Crunch. As you can see from the title, we are still in a testing period. You are welcome to listen, subscribe…
The recent FOMC meeting concluded with an expected tapering of QE3 by $10 billion. This was the fifth tapering for the Fed and as a result the current asset purchase shrinks to $35 billion a month. This news, however, seems…
As anticipated, the FOMC tapered again its asset purchase program, AKA QE3, from $55 billion a month to $45 billion a month. This is the fourth consecutive tapering decision, which first started back in the last FOMC meeting of 2013.…
As many had expected the FOMC decided to taper again its asset purchase program, AKA QE3, from $65 billion a month to $55 billion a month. This is the first major decision taken under new Chair Janet Yellen. This decision…