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What Will The Fed Do? – Predictions from The Mile [and beyond]
There’s half an hour to go before the FOMC policy announcement, which will be followed by ‘The Ben Bernanke Show’ from 1815 GMT. You can Watch the Federal Reserve press conference with chairman Bernanke here: http://www.ustream.tv/embed/4944768 Live video for mobile … Continue reading
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Tagged bernanke, central bank, Economic Forecast, Economic Policy, fed, federal reserve, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, FOMC, interest rates, macroeconomics, monetary policy, Monetary Policy Announcement, operation twist, QE, QE3, USD
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What’s Worrying Bernanke?
Fed Chairman Bernanke gave a curious and worrying signal in his appearance yesterday before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He said, in the Q&A session that followed his testimony, that the recovery was ‘close to faltering.’ This subtly contradicted … Continue reading
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Tagged Banks, bernanke, Congress, crisis, dollar, Economic Policy, economics, federal reserve, government, risk, USD
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Why More From Operation [Oliver] Twist May Not Be Enough
http://youtu.be/sZrgxHvNNUc The problem is, ‘more’ has been given, and yet ‘more’ still, and it has not proved to be enough, for markets or the real economy. What you will not find this afternoon, is an economist or anyone attentive and … Continue reading
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Tagged bernanke, dollar, Economic Forecast, Economic Policy, economics, federal reserve, foreign exchange, forex, monetary policy, operation twist, USD
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JPY can go OTP ahead of DPJ Contest
QuickJPYbullets: scope for USD/JPY to plumb/set historic lows with the most recent being 76.37. Overnight the pair reversed from a peak around 76.88 and is now at a weakly looking 76.53 triangle on hourly chart suggests 73.50 target! More sensible targets are 76.37 and … Continue reading
USD/JPY compressed, hourly chart with 100-day moving averages, Bollinger bands and Fibonacci-based retracements
The Great SNB / NY Fed USD Swap Mystery
The Swiss National Bank has a USD swaps facility with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.On behalf of a Swiss investment bank following a request, the SNB effectively applied for $200M-worth of dollars on Aug. 10 and the amount … Continue reading
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Tagged CHF, dollar, federal reserve, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, finance, foreign exchange, forex, macroeconomics, markets, NY, SNB, swiss franc, Swiss National Bank, USD
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Expect short-term tumble, but no long-term USD collapse
What a weekend. I sense that many have been reluctant to get involved in the necessary task of trying to work out what the two almost seismic bits of financial news over the weekend mean. However many did get involved. … Continue reading
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Tagged aud, australian dollar, british pound, CHF, dollar, economics, equities, EUR, euro, foreign exchange, forex, GBP, markets, New Zealand dollar, NZD, risk, s&p, standard & poor's, sterling, stocks, Swiss france, USD
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Raise The Roof, It’s Vacation Time
Today I spoke with an economist who owns and heads an independent, forecasting boutique with many large enterprises, institutions and even governments of small countries as clients. Even with such a weighty reputation, he has a mild reputation, in informal … Continue reading
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Tagged dollar, Economic Policy, economics, foreign exchange, forex, Geithner, government, house of congress, macroeconomics, Obama, US, US Government, USD, Washington
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Deutsche Bank could FAIL, strictly speaking
Deutsche Bank: solid as a Black Forest oak. But could it fail stress tests? The idea that it might outright or nearly fail the EU tests is gathering pace and adding a small chill to European markets right now. The results are … Continue reading
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Tagged Basel II, Basel III, cds, debt, derivatives, Deutsche Bank, EUR, foreign exchange, Germany, markets, regulation, sovereign, sovereign credit spread, sovereign debt, Sovereign Debt Crisis, stocks, USD
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#FOMC news won’t push the plunger on any volatility bombs anytime soon. The main new thing to focus on may be on the fact that inflation isn’t behaving. The Fed may need to re-cast what it means by ‘inflation’ so … Continue reading
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Tagged bernanke, central bank, Economic Policy, economics, EUR, fed, federal reserve, forex, JPY, macroeconomics, monetary policy, USD
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