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Week in FX Europe – Turkey’s Investment Upgrade A Plus for TRY?

Posted by Dean Popplewell at 7:41 pm EDT, 05/17/2013

Turkey this week caught the markets attention on two occasions, the first, after Moody’s upgraded Turkey’s sovereign bond ratings to investment grade (Baa3), in line with Fitch at BBB- and above S&P at BB+. The second time occurred after Turkey’s Central Bank extended its monetary easing cycle. The rating upgrade has been a part of “consensus expectations for an extended period and was one of the main drivers of real money demand for Turkish bonds in the past 12-months.” Investors [...] read more

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Swiss Central Bank Discloses 20% of Gold Reserves Held in England

Posted by Alfonso Esparza 9:59 am EDT, 04/29/2013

Thomas Jordan, the president of the Swiss National Bank, has revealed that 70 per cent of the country’s gold was stored in Switzerland, 20 per cent with the Bank of England and 10 per cent with the Bank of Canada. Since the Second World War and the Cold War, several central banks in Europe have kept part of their gold reserves in foreign countries in case of invasion. But turbulence in financial markets in recent years has raised concern among Europeans, [...] read more

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AUD/CHF – Little Reaction to Swiss GDP, but heavier long-term outlook

Posted by marketpulsefxstaff 3:33 am EDT, 02/28/2013

One good maxim when trading is to trade currency pairs that comprises a strong currency versus a weak currency, as such currency pair tend to trend very well. We have tools via our fxLabs that cater to such analysis: Currency Heatmap and World-Strength Heat Map allows traders to identity the weak and strong currencies in a glance. Using the tools, traders would have notice that the Swiss Franc has been gaining strength the past month, losing only to USD and beating [...] read more

Filed under: CHF, AUD

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