Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
Next Week
April 6, 2012
The week of April 9 – 13 starts at half strength as many markets will be closed for Easter Monday, including those in Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, Britain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Hungary Portugal, South Africa, and the Czech Republic. Central banks will be holding interest rate meetings in Japan, […] More
Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
To What Drum Will Major Currencies March?
April 6, 2012
A special report on foreign exchange in the April 5th edition of the Financial Times presents two competing currency market drivers, mood swings between risk aversion and risk appetite and conventional cyclical discrepancies between key economies. It is asserted that risk on/risk off swings dominated market behavior last year, preventing significant directional movement and ultimately […] More
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Good Friday and a U.S. Jobs Report
April 6, 2012
Good Friday is one of the three business days of the year with the most market closures. The range of closures today includes The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. In the United States, the Labor Department will report March job […] More
