The week has ended with many shifts and turns not only in the commodities markets, but also in the forex markets as well. The decision of ECB along with the Federal Reserve to offer loans to struggling European banks in…
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Recommended posts for the weekend – September 10
Last week there were many news items including the ECB decision to keep its interest rate unchanged, the BOC’s decision to keep its overnight rate at 1%, the slight increase in US non-manufacturing index or the increase in US initial…
Recommended posts for the weekend – September 3
September started with the non-farm employment report didn’t show any improvement in the US labor force, the US PMI manufacturing slowing down and the thus the speculation over the US’s economic progress is high. Here are several recommended posts regarding…
Recommended posts for the weekend – August 28
Bernanke’s speech in Jackson Hole didn’t bring any major stir up in the financial markets, but there is still high uncertainty in the markets in regards to the future economic progress in the US and Europe. Hurricane Irene that hit…
Recommended posts for the weekend – August 21
The concerns over a slowdown in the US and Europe affected the traders as the major stock markets in US, Europe and Asia experienced high volatility and sharp falls. Before we enter a new week with new agenda, here are…
Recommended posts for the weekend – August 14
The high volatility in the financial markets during last week has subsided by the end of the week after the stir up caused by the rating change by S&P of US’s credit rating. Before we enter a new week with…
Recommended posts for the weekend – August 7
Last week ended with a dramatic announcement of Standard and Poor’s downgrade of US’s credit rating from AAA to +AA; the rumors behind this news are probably one of the factors that pulled not only stock markets, but also crude…
Recommended posts for the weekend – July 9th
Following the busy week in which the ECB raised the interest rate to 1.5% and the US labor report didn’t show an improvement, let’s review what other writers had to say of this week. Here are several recommended posts regarding…
Recommended posts for the weekend – June 11
Following this intense week, here are a few recommended posts you may find interesting for the weekend of June 10th: In Forexcrunch, Yohay discusses the rise of the British pound against the US following the bad data reports; there is…