While the Fed rate cut has no surprise, the size of the reduction was larger than expected, and the Fed’s explanation for the larger-than-anticipated rate cut was...
Even 50-bps rate cut today also leaves the Fed behind the curve, it can catch up with aggressive easing in the future if it needs to.
The BoJ almost certainly won’t hike rates again this week, but this need not necessarily rule out another painful carry-trade unwind.
The US dollar will presumably be sensitive to the size of the Fed rate cut this week but many analyst said investors should not overplay the role of US monetary policy...
The euro is at the upper end of the 1.05-1.10 trading range that has been in place for much of the past eighteen months.
It seems that there are two opposing views about the yen-funded carry trade that underwent such huge turmoil earlier this month.
So far, financial markets have retained the faith in the US dollar, even though it seems that US policymakers have undermined this faith with things like protectionism....
It finally looks as if the Fed will come to the rate-cut party currently being enjoyed by most developed nations. It is only the Bank of Japan that is acting as the...
If the yen-funded carry trade stays out of fashion for a while, what other currencies could take its place?
It seems to make sense to ask how the markets will react if Harris emerges as victor on November 5th.
Many financial asset prices have recovered after the battering late last week and early this week. Will the slump in things like stocks and dollar/yen continue to fade...
Euro/US dollar has hardly left the extremely narrow 1.05-1.10 range since early 2023.
Politics and monetary policy continue to dominate FX market sentiment and this is unlikely to change in the short-term.
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump repeated his dislike for the strong US dollar in a recent interview.
The question now is whether financial market players should gear up for a dollar rally to begin should Trump win in November 2024.
A Mr. Joe Biden’s withdrawal would be a seismic shock, the initial response, at least, might be limited.
The yen continued to slump with 38-year lows against the US dollar now in place. Even more worrying is the fact that at least one factor that should have enabled the yen...
There seem to be a number of factors, that have clear historical precedent, that could squeeze the dollar much higher, even if only temporarily. Most of these factors...
Politics dominates given two elections in Europe this week and the continued fallout from President Biden’s poor performance in last week’s presidential debate.
A left-leaning but stable government, or a right-of-centre government that is inherently unstable? We could be about to find out in the UK as the electorate is likely to...
Politics is usurping economics when it comes to financial market volatility and may do so for some time.
The Standard Bank expected the yen’s recovery would remain slow and possibly require more FX intervention.
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