The minutes of the recent FOMC meeting were came out today. The minutes revealed that several members thought it was high time to taper QE3 back in the September meeting. In the end, all members sans one decided to maintain…
Following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which it was decided to maintain $85 billion a month asset purchase program. From the FOMC’s statement: “…the Committee decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its…
The commodity markets are heating up this summer, while the forex market is cooling down. During last week, gold, silver, natural gas and oil bounced back and rallied. Will these commodities’ rally persist this week? This forthcoming week several reports…
The summer days may have pulled back the volatility in the financial markets as leading commodities such as oil, natural gas and gold didn’t do much during last week. Leading currencies including Euro, Japanese yen and Aussie dollar rallied against…
The minutes of the latest FOMC meeting were published today. The minutes didn’t present too much added value information that wasn’t covered in the statement of the FOMC meeting and the press conference that followed. But the market is reacting…
The ECB President Mario Draghi decided to keep the ECB policy unchanged as the cash rate remained unchanged at 0.50%. This decision came after many suspected the ECB might decide to lower its cash rate again or perhaps even introduce a…
Here are several recommended posts you may find interesting for the weekend of June 4th: In Forexcrunch, Yohay analyzes the EURO/USD and the effect of the recent publication of the U.S. ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI report on this exchange rate; Forexcrunch…
The debt crisis in Europe is among the major news that ended the week including the bailout funds that Portugal received from the IMF. Here are several recommended posts you may find interesting, some of them refer to the European…
The many shifts and fluctuations in the financial markets including the commodities markets have ended. Here are several recommended posts you may find interesting: In forexcrunch, Yohay reviews the commodities markets in May – past and present; Mad Hedge…
Here are several recommended posts from different sites for the weekend I thought are interesting for reading, enjoy: In forexcrunch, Yohay analyzes the recent changes in the EURO/USD exchange rate; Is Natural gas to make a comeback? This is…