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2013 Articles

May

Tongue Tied Fed Makes For No Easy Decisions
The Capitulation Trade Has Short Yen Positions Worried
Are We Pre-Trading A Dovish Announcement From Bernanke?
Is The Dollar To Be Given A Bull Run Break Before Ben?
EUR/USD – Quiet in Thin Holiday Trading
Week in FX Americas – The Loonie Wallows In No Man’s Land
Week in FX Europe – Turkey’s Investment Upgrade A Plus for TRY?
Week in FX Asia – Aussie And Yen Remaining The Whipping Currency Of Choice
An Aussie Spanking Is Preferred Over A Timid EURO
Fool’s Gold – The Dollar? No Way!
Being A Persistent Dollar Bull Is Hard Work
EURO Tripped Up By A Slammed Aussie
EURO’s Survival – A Tale Of Two Ideas
A Yen For Help – Do Not Bother
Week in FX Americas – Canada adds to North Americas job gains, so what’s up with the Loonie?
Week in FX Europe – A weaker EUR and Yen Conspires to Kill US Exports
Week in FX Asia – Are the South Koreans playing their “currency war” card?
EURO Choked By Options, Awaits A Catalyst
The EURO Bull Is Being Eased Along
EURO’s Zest For Loftier Heights
Yen Drop Slow and Methodical
Week in FX Americas – NFP Beat Caps A Better Week For The Dollar
Week in FX Europe – ECB Is Moving The Market, But Not The Economy Just Yet
Week in FX Asia -Yen Bears Are Beginning To See The Light
NFP – Expect This And Be Surprised By That
ECB – To Cut, Or Not To Cut, That Is The Question
EUR/USD – Euro Continues Rally as Dollar Struggles

April

EUR/USD – Steady as Rate Cut Speculation Grows
EUR/USD – Higher as Italy Finally Forms Government
Week in FX Americas – US Economy Grows but Misses Expectations
Week in FX Europe – Higher European Unemployment Could Force ECB to Cut Rates
Week in FX Asia – USD/JPY Appreciates to 98 as Japanese Deflation Continues
EUR/USD – Steady as Talk of ECB Cut Grows
EUR/USD – Higher as Markets Wait for US Employment Numbers
Thai Baht Pauses rally as Central Bank eyes Japan
EUR/USD – Fluctuating After More Weak German Numbers
Forget The Diamonds – Give Me The Dollar?
To Spend Or Not To Spend – That Is The Forex Question
Week in FX Americas – Loonie Is As Boring As It’s Data
Week in FX Europe – EURO at Yen’s Mercy
Week in FX Asia – Yen Continues Fall as G20 Issues no Objection to Japan
Yen Gets The Green Light – 100 On Horizon
Investors Seek G20 Signal
At Half-Time: Yen Takes A Breather
Yen Continues To Bully The EUR
Gold Bears Mission Accomplished: Is the EUR next?
Week in FX Europe – EUR/JPY’s 12-Big Figure Move Dominates EUR demand
Week in FX Americas – When Will The Loonie Begin Its Real ‘Fall From Grace’?
Week in FX Asia – Bank of Japan Doubles Bond Buying Weakens Yen
Catching The Falling EUR Knife A Winning Strategy?
EURO Market Is Happier Front Running Japanese Flow
Shorting The EUR Is Like Owning Fools Gold
BoJ Is Standing Tall – How High USD/JPY And How Fast?
JPY/USD – Yen Keeps Dropping as BOJ Takes Easing Steps
Week in FX Americas – Loonie Had More than ‘A’ Wing Clipped
Week in FX Europe – EUR Whipped Into Frenzy By NFP
Week in FX Asia – BoJ Drags USD/JPY Screaming Higher
It’s A Hope And A Prayer For NFP
BoJ Comes Out Swinging but NFP Could Soften Impact
Buyer Beware: It’s CB-Day and Draghi Has Some Defending To Do
EURO Tight With Options And Central Bank Decisions
Is The EURO A Good April Fool Joke?
EURO: Is It Too Late For Holiday Surprises?

March

If Depositors Run, Where Will The EURO Hide?
EURO Strangled By Options, Cyprus And Holiday’s
Owning EURO’s Needs Convincing
Short Relief But No Enthusiasm For The EUR
Week in FX Asia – A Yen to do something?
Week in FX Americas – Boring Loonie Continues A Sideways Chop
Week in FX Europe – Another Last Minute Houdini Act from The ECB?
Flashing Red Data Knocks the Wind Out Of The EURO
Where Is This EURO Short Squeeze?
Too many Cuts, Not Enough Band Aids For The EURO
Today EURO And Yen Are Both Losers
Week in FX Asia – Is Future Yen Weakness A Myth?
Week in FX Americas – The Big Boys Are Back next Week: FOMC
Week in FX Europe – Is Sterling’s Magnetic Option Ride Over? Maybe Next Wednesday
What Has The EURO Got To Counter The Mighty Dollar?
EUR / USD Drops as EU Data Disappoints and US Retail Sales Beats Expectations
Are The Yen Bears Afraid To Lose Face?
Yen and Pound Drop as Aussie gains across the board
What Gives? EURO Is Locked, Cable Is Horrible and Yen Not Wanted
Forex Market Low Volatility After NFP Friday
Consolidation the EURO Bear Enemy
Week in FX Americas – Is the Loonie and ‘Big’ Dollar Move for Real?
Week in FX – EUR Weakness Not About the EURO
Week in FX Asia – Japan Indicators Help Yen Drop
What’s the NFP Game Plan? Is Yen to take the lead?
What Can We Expect From The ECB’s Euro?
EUR / USD – Central Bank Week Continues
EUROs ‘House-of-Cards’ Needs a Weaker Unit To Survive
Buy EURO Rumor; Sell Hard Fact, Tact Worth Preserving?
Central Banks Get To Play The Tune This Week
EURO Wallowing In No-Mans Land
Week in FX Asia – Kuroda Nominated to BoJ Governor
Week in FX Americas – Loonies Split Personality
Dollar Safe Haven Status Intact Despite Sequester

February

EUR/USD – Under Pressure As Markets Remain Wary
EURO Weathers Another Storm-Where To Now?
All EURO Roads Lead To Rome
EUR Needs Italian Exit Polls For Clarity
The Yen’s Easy Moves Are Over
Week in FX Americas – Investors Expect Better Levels To Own The Loonie
Week in FX Europe – The EURO Has Not Stumbled, It’s Fallen Hard
Ugly LTRO Has The EURO Bleeding
No Currency War Here, But You Got To Like the EURO Result
Same Game But EURO Goals Have Shifted
EUR Temporarily Rooted But Is Looking Left
EUR/USD – Weak GDPs Weigh on Euro
Week in FX Europe-European Debt Auctions Take Center Stage
Week in FX Americas – A Loonie Stumble Could lead To A Fall
Week in FX Asia- Will Yen Buyers Wait For Muto?
Yen Seeks Green Light From G20
EUR Unglued By Ugly GDP Assault
It’s Only Words But FX Is On The Move
Japan Can Do What It Wants According To The G7
EUR/USD – Euro Stems Sharp Losses
Week in FX Europe – Draghi And Aso Have So Much In Common
Week in FX Americas – Bank Of Canada Pushes Rate Hikes Further Out The Curve
Week in FX Asia – After G20 Aso Comments Will Have Been Forgotten
EUR Longs Reload For LTRO Fallout
Can Draghi Bust The EUR Out Of Its Range?-UPDATE
A Yen For Your Thoughts
EURO In Correction Not Trend Change
Momentum Selling Has EURO Longs Seeking Exit
Week in FX Europe – Dollar Perception Has the EUR Appreciating
Week in FX Americas – The Loonie Bears Had Their Wings Clipped
Week in FX Asia – The Kiwis Gave Us “The Hobbit” And Now An Expensive “Dollar”
Hail The All Conquering EURO

January

Keep Your Powder Dry Ahead Of NFP
EUR Punches Above Its Weight Class
EUR Strangled By Vanilla Options And Shallow Pullbacks
What Excuse Is The EUR To Use Now?
Week in FX Asia – Abe’s Cohorts Will Stand In The Way Of A Rising Yen
Week in FX Americas – Loonie Takes Flight In Wrong Direction
Week in FX Europe – EURO Landing Continues To Have Opportunities
Is The Real Money Investor Missing Out On The Yen’s Decline?
Is the Euro Market Now Sitting On The Fence?
Whose Chain Are Central Banks Pulling?
Is The Euro Relying on Excuses?
Is The Euro “Ping-Pong” Rhetoric Strong Enough To Hunt Stops?
Week in FX Americas – US Economic Data Mixed as Debt Ceiling Looms
Week in FX Europe – Juncker and Nowotny Staments Move Euro in Different Directions
Week in FX Asia – Yen Continues Weak Trend
EUR/USD Euro Falters After Recent Gains
Spanish Bulls Chase EUR Higher
Has EU’s Juncker Given The EUR The “Kiss-of Death”?
Yield Spotting Makes EUR Roadmap Easier To Read
EUR/USD – Euro Trading at Multi-Month Highs
Week in FX Americas – Loonies Flight Is Not As Clear As the EUR’s
Week in FX Europe – Prices in Central Europe Are In Focus
Week in FX Asia -Yen Fall a Life Saver For Exporters, But What About Debt Holders?
FX Market Wary Of ‘Safe’ Trade
“Old Lady” To Stand Still While Draghi’s ECB May Waffle
Looming ECB Rate Decision To Keep Investors At Bay
ASO Short Yen-Nope, That’s The Problem
Some Reasons Not To Commit To Selling Yen
Week in FX Asia – Yen Depreciation Continues as Abe Returns
Week in FX Europe – EUR deflates after EU data and US employment
Week in FX Americas – Canada Makes US Job Numbers Small Looking
NFP And Canada Employment: What’s the Scoop?
EURO Crapshoot Is Opening Up Holes
After Mini-Agreement: The EUR Needs The US ‘Can’ to be Kicked Further

2012 Articles

December

USD/CAD Canadian Dollar 2012 Wrap up
EUR/USD – Over the Cliff We Go?
EUR/USD – Losing Ground as Fiscal Cliff Hopes Fade
EUR/USD – Slightly Higher as Fiscal Cliff Talks Resume
EUR/USD – Edges Higher in Thin Holiday Trading
Review and expectations for 2012/13
EURO Strength Falls Under BoJ Spell
Tedious EURO Year-End Trading
EUR’s Teflon Capabilities
Week in FX Europe-The EURO’s Teflon Capabilities
Week In FX Americas – The “Fright Flight” of the Loonie
Week in FX Asia-What’s it take to weaken that Yen?
EUR/USD Eurogroup releases bailout funds to Greece
Punch Drunk EURO is Wobbling
Resuscitated EUR Keeps Ticking
Negative EURO Pundits Have to Wait
EURO to Mourn Monti’s Move
Week in FX Europe- ECB EU Growth Forecast Cut Drags Euro
Week in FX Americas-A Sandy Soaking did not materialize
Week in FX Asia-Yen, Yen and Yen Again
Rain Soaked NFP to Save EURO?
EURO Flight keeps Prize in Sight
EURO’s course of action has not changed
How much stamina has the EUR got?

November

Week in FX Europe – Greek Debt Deal Reached as Eurogroup Budget looms
Week in FX Americas – Obama Hits the Road to Pressure Republicans on Fiscal Cliff
Week in FX Asia – Is the Currency of the Rising Sun in Free-Fall?
Has the EUR the Green Light to Pass “Go”?
The EURO Loses its Shackles
Is the EUR Confined to Lame Duck Status?
EUR Surrenders after Benchmark Print
Greek Haircut puts German Political Capital at Stake
Week in FX Americas – US Holiday gives EUR Opportunity to Advance
Week in FX Europe – EUR unfazed by Greek Debt and Budget Failure
Week in FX Asia – China Manufacturing Expands
Late Night for EU Budget as US Holiday Continues
China Manufacturing Recovery Boosts EUR
Merkel Backs Greece to Support EUR
Eurogroup Dictates the Next EUR Move
Single Currency eyes Eurogroup for Support
Week in FX Asia – Japan Dissolves Parliament
Week in FX Americas- Is the Loonie to be thrown a Government Lifeline?
Week in FX Europe – Public Spat has Single Unit Close to the Rail
Is the EUR Tired of Lofty Heights?
Where is the EUR off to now?
EUR Game plan has not changed
Germany not immune to EUR troubles
What date is the EURO crisis?
Week in FX Americas – Obama Fails to Bring Relief
Week in FX Asia – Obama Reelection Boosts Regional Currencies
Week in FX Europe – How will the EUR ever make the turn?
EUR Black Hole Threatens to Deepen
EUR Requires its own Jump Leads
The European Crutch is breaking
EUR Momentum is not to Specs Liking
EUR Fears Greece not US or China
Week in FX Americas – USD Momentum to Continue?
Week in FX Europe – Not everyone is a EUR Basher
Week in FX Asia – Chinese Power Transition as Growth Improves
EUR Bulls become Bears ahead of NFP
Is the EUR Waiting for NFP and Election to Pass?

October

Are EUR Shorts Waiting for Month End Dollar Demand?
EUR Eying Option Strikes
EUR Shorts Dominate Play
Week in FX Europe – Netherlands and Germany Unsure About Greece
Week in FX Americas – US Spending Helps Economy Grow at 2 percent
Week in FX Asia – Bank of Japan to Intervene as China Recovers
EUR Rise Greased by Pound Performance
Tenative EUR Unhinged by Germany
Is the BoC to Clip the Loonies Wings?
Has the EUR the Strength to Rally with Conviction?
Week in Americas: Will Carney disappoint Loonie Bulls
Week in Europe – EUR Road to Nowhere
Week in FX Asia – Japan and China Tension Continues
EUR goes from Summit to Spain
EUR Waits on Main Event
EUR Stops are Chasing a Bigger Win
EUR’s Ongoing Slow Grind
Is EUR looking to Grind Higher?
Week in FX Americas VP Debate Heats up Election
Week in FX Europe Spain holds on Bailout Request
Week in FX Asia Chinese Household Confidence Falls
EUR Hanging Tough
Surprise and then No Surprise for the EUR
EUR’s Trading Void is Deep
EUR on the Back Foot Again?
Week in FX Europe HUF Appreciation Questionable after Concessions
Week in FX Asia Oct: Japanese Car Industry Stalls
Week in FX Americas Obama’s Dollar Gets a Helping Hand
Will NFP be a Non-Snooze Event?
Week in FX Europe HUF Appreciation Questionable after Concessions
Spain Confuses Market by Waiting for Bailout Request

September

Week in FX Americas – Fed Member questions QE3 impact
Week in FX Asia – China Slowdown to Impact Region Growth
Week in FX Europe – Protests Deflate EUR
Fed Plosser Deflates QE3
Week in FX Asia China Japan Conflict to impact regional trade
Week in FX Americas Fed Debates as USD regains some ground
Week in FX Europe – Greece Selling Real Estate as Spain Denies Bailout Request
US Record High Home Sales as Japan Double Stimulus
EUR Pullbacks are Inevitable and Needed
EUR Event Premium To Remain Intact?
Week in FX EUROPE Sept 9-14: EUR Bulls Squeeze Retail
Week in FX AMERICA Sept 9-14: Getting Rid of the USD Quickly
Week in FX Asia Sept 9-14: FED is doing the PBoC a favour
QE3 and OMT Equal a Strong EUR
Will Helicopter Ben Bring a Bazooka?
Retail EUR Short at Offside Average
Daily Market Close – China Slows but Will Meet Targets as QE3 Looms
Gateway of EUR Stop Losses
EUR and FED Event Risk Dominates
Week in FX AMERICAS: Canadian Employment data Trumps NFP
Week in FX: Asia RBA Holds Rates as ECB OMT Boosts Markets
Week in FX EUROPE: Is the ECB’s OMT enough?
NFP to Give us QE3?
Will Super Mario be able to save the EURO?
EUR Jobbing is Expensive
The Loonie is so boring it’s predictable
Week in FX ASIA Japan remains a large foreign bond buyer

August

Week in FX Americas Helicopter Ben leaves the Door Open
Week in FX Europe Ben left the door open and Draghi?
Will the Dollar do an about face on the EUR?
EUR losing momentum?
EUR is Looking for Excuses
How Much of a Squeeze is the EUR Feeling?
Merkel and Hollande Boost EUR
Week in FX Europe Leaders Ponder Greek Bailout Extension
Week in FX ASIA China Growth Slows Down
Week in FX AMERICAS Fed FOMC Minutes
EUR waiting on Greece Germany Meeting
Does EUR remain on the Main Menu?
Being Short EUR Feels Awkward?
Are Investors still looking for an excuse to own EUR’s?
Japan to claim No 1 from China
Week in FX EUROPE Aug 12-17
The Dollars in Motion
Another EUR Jobbing Trade?
Can We Bore the EUR into Submission?
News Drought No Friend of EUR
Light Headed at EUR Lofty Heights
PBoC Stands Ready to React
Week in FX Europe Aug 5-10 2012
Loonie Going Out on A limb?
EUR Waits For RRR Cut?
See you down there-EUR that is
It’s fitting that the EUR is under pressure
German Data to help the EUR?
Chinese authorities are beginning to worry
Non-Farm Payroll No Game Changer
Week in FX Europe July 29-Aug 3
Has this market got enough energy for an NFP surprise?
How the Markets should react to ECB announcement
No EUR Excuse

July

EUR Traders Wade
Official EUR Care Package?
China Risks US Revenge
Is this an ECB Set Up?
Where is the US growth coming from?
EUR Short Squeeze is a Friend
A EUR Head Fake?
EUR Short No Thrill
EUR Retreat?
EUR needs air
FED stalls and ECB denies bonds
Week in FX Europe 15-20 July
Is China a worry?
Look Out Below EUR?
EUR Remains Headline Slave
Core Yield Hurts EUR
Bernanke a Dollar White Knight?
EUR Song Remains the Same
Focus shift from FED to PBOC
Week in FX Europe 8-13 July
Market to Speed up Asian Unwinding
China has EUR in a Chokehold
FOMC to provide the Light?
EUR to Squeeze Higher?
EURO is Comfortably Sold?
No Surprises from China
NFP not to trigger Fed Action
Week in FX Europe 1-6 July
NFP Wake Up Call
The EUR is to do what?
EUR stable as USD celebrates Independence
EUR/USD to wait ECB decision after 4th of July US Holiday

June

Back to NFP and Monetary Easing
Asia playing second fiddle to EUR
Week in FX Europe June 24-29
Repeat of the typical EU Summit pattern?
European Comments Before the EU Summit
EUR Head Fake?
EUR Summit leads to Stops
QE3 on Offer for Next Fed Meet
Week in FX Europe June 17-22
Red Hot China Blows Cold
EUR Traders Deflated
FED to Support EUR?
Plethora of EUR Support?
EUR too Heavy to Handle?
Greece First and then the FED
Week in FX Europe June-10-15
Yen Rise Noda Fundamental
Retail Favors EUR Shorts
Event Risk Requires a Higher EUR
EUR’s Still to Go
EUR, To Be Long or Short?
Optimism for the EUR Unjustified?
Is the EUR Now On Life Support?
Ben to crush EUR’s hopes?
Expect the EUR to Disappoint
BoC’s Carney Going Solo?
Lower than Expected Economic Data Weakens USD

May

EUR Pessimism Overdone?
Weak EUR Stops Where?
EUR lacks follow through?
Pos and Polls To Squeeze EUR
Dollar to Dominate until Greece a Done Deal
Yen to remain Neutral Outright
Week in FX Europe May 20-25
Retail to recycle their EURs?
Do EUR Shorts Feel Comfortable?
Safe to Sell EUR in the Hole?
EUR Looking For Conviction
RBA Rate Cut Squeezes AUD
Loonie the first to hike?
Week in FX Europe May 13-18
EURs to be Recycled
EUR Short Squeeze Too Far?
Grexit no more, Spain for EUR
Myopic EUR View Tops
EUR: No Bounce, No Lift, Why Own?
Loonie Fly’s South Through Parity
Week in FX Europe May 6-11
Aussie Takes It On the Chin
EUR Waits For True Direction
No Reason To Own EUR
EUR: No bounce, No Lift, No Life
EUR Rides Wave Lower
EUR Jitters Shorts to Reload
EUR Positions Post Elections
NFP has Investors Range Trading
Week in FX Europe April 29-May 4
Did the RBA Get it Wrong?
EUR Bears Lighten Ahead of NFP
ECB Full Confidence in Spain
No EUR Mayday

April

EUR Squeeze Persists
NFP to shape the QE Outlook
BoJ Provides No Dollar Favors
Week in FX Europe April 22-27
EUR Requires Conviction
It’s noise for all EURO B’s
Specs to Squeeze EUR ahead of FOMC
EUR Relief Rally without Teeth
EUR Bears Have Momentum?
FED not Associated with Divergence
Is China doing its Part?
Week in FX Europe April 15-20
EUR Rallies ‘Cause it Can
Spanish excuse to sell more EURs?
Spain’s EUR White Knight
EUR Struggles at Lofty Heights?
EURO Patience for Grind Lower
Is the BoC to ‘Walk the Walk’ next week?
BoJ has to work to weaken JPY
Week in FX Europe April 8-13
Freaky Friday to Break EUR?
Options and Yields Confuse EUR Positions
Bund Failure No Reason to Sell EUR
Big Dollar on the March
What is the BoJ to do?
A Tale of Two Dollars
No Game Change For EUR
New EURO Paradigm
FED and Spain Game Change for EUR
EUR Bears Incremental Fears
EUR Bears Need a Break

March

Week in FX Europe Mar 25-30
Dollar Danger is to Trade Higher
Yen to bear the weight of PMIs
EUR Firepower Expansion to Backfire
EUR to Buckle on Month End?
US 5-years weaker than 2′s
US 2-Years Better Bid at Auction
EUR Positions Remain Offside
Dovish Bernanke Punishes the Dollar
A EUR Range Play?
Week in FX Europe Mar 18-23
China’s Fix Influence Cannot Last
Quarter-end pushes USD repricing
EUR Dictated by Option Demands
EUR to Rollover?
EUR Bias Remains The Same
Bernanke to derail the EUR trend?
March Dollar Madness on Dudley?
EU to Increase Firewall as Italian Derivative Bet Unravels
USD on a One Month High as Fed Tweets
EU Finance Ministers not worried about Spain
USD gets US Retail Sales boost
After Greek Debt Swap Eurogroup turns to Spain
Week in FX Europe Mar 4-9
Japan gets its Wish of Weak Yen
Strong US Employment could Signal Recovery
EUR Sways on Interest
EUR Debt Relief Belief
EUR Strangled by Greek SWAP Pick Up
Where is the EUR demand?
EUR Bloodied by China
Week in FX Europe Feb 26-Mar 2
Yen to Go
Everyone’s Favourite Dollar
EUR Only Grinds Lower

February

LTRO2 results brings March Madness
EUR’s Risk and Reward limited until LTRO
Fast Money Sells EURs
Greek Bailout Agreed as EU and UK Economies Shrink
USD hits records lows as EUR gets Greek deal boost
Japanese Yen Tumbles as Importers sell JPY
UK GDP contraction sparks fear of a technical recession
EUR soars as EU economy contracts
Greece on a diet for EUR recovery
Where to now EUR?
Bailout in Brussels to help the BoJ
USD Liquidity an Issue
Week in FX Europe Feb 12-17
Another Intraday EUR Squeeze?
Being Long Euros is Lonely
Another EUR Hail Mary Pass
No End to the Euro Greek Tragedy
Can the BoJ breath a little easier?
Loonie Loosens the Death Grip
Week in FX Europe Feb 5-10
EUR to lose Faith?
BoE and ECB Showtime
No EURO Freeze just Squeeze
EUR Pegged to be Lower?
US Curve Flatter Despite a bid EUR
Loonie at the Mercy of Ivey
Land of the Rising Yen
Week in FX Jan 29-Feb 3
NFP no license to apply risk
EUR at NFPs Mercy?
Buy the EUR Rumor and Sell that Fact?

January

EUR Short Covering Just Started?
More EUR Concessions Required
Week in FX Europe Jan 22-27
US GDP Hidden Surprise Supports QE
A Yen to Lead
US Yields Move Ahead of GDP
EUR Top is Where Now?
Deja Vu EURO
EUR on Supplements?
US Debt Prices on the Back Foot
Are EUR Bears Losing the Fight?
Week in FX Europe Jan 15-20
EUR Shorts Suffer with Bond Bears
China Feels the EURO Heat
Toss a EUR-Up or Down?
EUR Bulls Covet This Squeeze
A Letter makes a EUR difference
EUR did what was expected
EUR move Exaggerated?
Week in FX Europe Jan 8-13
US Data Not Good for Funding Currency
Worried about the Exit of Capital from China?
Have We Missed the EUR Sweet Spot after Italian Auction?
Will the US embrace EURs new found confidence?
German Debt Well Received No Effect on EUR So Far
Bunds and Treasury Yields Narrow
EUR Shorts Wait for the Next Leg Down
EURs Litany of Reasons to Short
Week in FX Europe Jan 1-6
Cross Border Dollars Temporarily Diverge
Yen and Aussie have their own Battle
Market Primed for Upside NFP Risk?
FX requires EUR Fixed Income to trade?
Other Dollars trade in a Vacuum
BUNDs and PMI to hurt EUR?
Risk to hurt record long dollar positions?

2011 Articles

December

2011 Top MarketPulse FX Stories
Dollar to make the Turn ahead
Yen is a Chosen One
Week in FX Europe Dec 11-16
Should we let the EUR Snooze?
Where to sell the EUR again?
Sell EURs and Shut Your Eyes?
CAD and AUD at the mercy of Euro Rhetoric
EUR to be bullied lower?
Risk Aversion absorbing US Debt Supply
Week in FX: Europe December 4-9
Dollar shines after an underwhelming summit
Red Knight to Buy US and Europe
EUR Tape Bombs to continue
Nein Euro solution fears ahead of ECB
Will the EUR wait for the Summit?
AUD and CAD take different routes
EUR Headline Watching
EU Leaders pressure Treasuries
Make or Break for the EUR this Week?
Week in FX: Europe Nov 27-Dec 2
US unemployment rate drops for all the wrong reasons
ASIA is doing its bit too
Will NFP derail any of the good done this week?
EUR under pressure despite product out the door

November

Italian issue ripe for EUR short?
Euro optimism sinks US bonds
Beginning of the dollar pain trade?
Week in FX: Europe Nov. 20-25
No BoJ Action just a Survey
Market Gives Thanks for a Stronger Dollar
No Black its Red in Capital Markets
Crude and Gold get off the floor
Aussie and Cad Dollars Fall From Grace
Safest of Bunds Sickens EUR
FX eyes Euro Yields for direction
What is the EUR’s next price?
Crude and Gold sideswiped by Rabid Dollar
CAD falls, now playing catch-up
US Yields Plummet, Prices Balloon
Week in FX: Europe Nov. 13-18
US Data Starting Its Own Trend?
Aussie dollar on one knee with Yen in demand
ECB or the EUR to Crack?
Loonie Outperforms its Risk Peers
Gold Prices Suffer From Contagion Flu
EURO relief better level to short
US Yields dragging their feet
EURO headache intensifies
CAD and AUD are in the same Boat
EUR short sell as Italy’s Yield Climbs
Gold gets a helping hand from India
US Treasuries under pressure as EU debt risk eases
Week in FX: Europe Nov. 6-11
Americas Dollars took the back seat
Yen are you a safe haven or not?
Politics and Fixed Income trump FX
Risk Currencies are finding it a Grind
ECB blows smoke for Italy
Risk Aversion requires lower US Yields
Market still wants Oil and Gold
Italian Bonds Encourage Market Madness
Demand for US Notes Rally as Italy Trades 7%
Commodities Stubbornly Bid
Other Dollars get a boost from Gold
Bonds in demand with Italy unloved
US Yields Back Up Ahead of NFP
Growth Dollars under pressure
What’s the ECB to do?
US Debt in Demand
What’s the FED to do?
Euphoria is Dead EURO is Buried

October

No Surprise from the BoJ
Week in FX: Europe October 23-28
Is EUR euphoria premium to be priced out?
What will the BoJ do?
Does the Dollar have Mojo?
EURO Clarity is Market Savior
Is it EURO Risk On or Off?
When Does the EURO Deadline Slippage Begin?
EURO Rhetoric Ticker To Dominate
Week in FX: Europe October 16-21
Week in FX: Asia October 16-21
Week in FX: Americas October 16-21
EURO Crapshoot
EURO trades in ‘no man’s land’
Do We Ever Get To Shout EURO Event Risk?
EURO Doom Mongering Persists
EURO premium to be priced out?
Week in FX: EUROPE Oct. 9-14
Week in FX: Asia Oct. 9-14
Week in FX: Americas Oct. 9-14
EURO G20 Time-out?
Dollar fights EURO ‘Hope’ Trade
EURO 0 Slovakia 1 first leg
Week In FX: October 2-7
Is NFP an opportunity to sell EUR’s higher?
Trichet Exits on a Low Note
EUR-Turnaround Tuesday gives way to Whiplash Wednesday
How Much Lower for EURO?
Lower EURO Looks the Safer Bet

September

Week In Review September 25-30
EURO Liquidation To Continue
Forget EURO EFSF Issues, It’s Quarter-End Pricing
EURO’s Left Hand Side the Most Vulnerable?
Traders know leverage. Do EURO Policy makers?
Germany’s Lack of Confidence not hurting EURO, Yet
Week In Review September 18-23
No Accountability in Currency Bloodbath
FED’s Desperation Sees Red
Three Potential Outcomes One FOMC Winner
Week in Review September 11-16
Merkel and Sarkozy need Today’s Philly Fed to Bounce
EURO Bleeding Persists
Merkel’s Pos-Still Long EURO’s
No ‘We’ in EURO hurts Currency
Week in Review September 4-9
EUR/CHF 1.20 fixation-who will do the pushing?
EUR flatlines ahead of ECB decision-Not for long
Merkel’s efforts provide a brief EUR rally
NFP Guesstimates are Slashed and Yours?
EURO has Lost its Teflon?

August

Market is anemic ahead of Job data
Reasons to Short EUR begin to Pile
Don’t forget EU’s woes when buying EUR’s
Bigger Punch Irene or Bernanke?
Bernanke to disappoint EURO positions?
Again the EUR fails to weaken!
What’s Your Safe Haven Currency Choice?
Trifecta of US Data
CHF another EURO Disappointment
EURO Weight on Germany too heavy?
CHF backed by lack of Bonds
US data to outperform EUR
Central Bank’s Battle with Currency’s
Do Not Upset the Swiss
What to expect from Ben and the FOMC?
ECB risk moves working?
Week in review July 31-Aug 5
Thanks Cbanks, only NFP now
Central Bank Coordination?
Bank of Japan next, after NFP?
EURO Bleeds
US Debt Ceiling Highlights

July

Three More Strikes against the EURO
EUR Longs Getting out of Dodge for a Few Days
FX Market is not Boring just Exhausting
Irresponsible Politicking aids EURO
EURO: Signs of Competence ahead of Bernanke
EURO-Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Bail?
EURO Rot Intensifies
Forex Week in Review July 3-8
NFP to play second fiddle to EURO crisis
EUR Remains Vulnerable No Matter What
EUR in the Crosshairs
EURO Squeeze Remains Intact

June

EUR following the Script?
EUR-Sell-No Wait Buy-Off That!
EUR held to ransom
How deep is the EURO black hole?
Forex Week in Review June 19-24
Pick your Poison: EURO or Dollar
EURO Longs Squeezed
EURO Buyer Beware
EURO Panic Attack is Only a Step Away
Forex Week in Review June 12-17
EURO waits and waits
EURO stampede persists
Look out below EURO
Weak EURO Shorts Being Squeezed
China does not help the EURO
Forex Week in Review June 5-10
Dismal Dollar Wins By Default
EURO Locked and Loaded
Convinced by the EURO rally?
Market continues to window dress the EUR
EURO Best of a Bad Lot
Time to load up on the EURO again

May

Euro has found its Mojo for now
Forex Week in Review May 22-27
Buy the EURO High sell Higher
Trichet Steadies the EURO For Now
Lagarde the EURO before Extinction
EUR searching for an excuses to trade higher
Forex Week in Review May 15-20
EURO Strangled by Options
Euro Roundabout
Restructuring is Verboten in EURO
To Reprofile or Restructure the EURO?
EUR value under discussion this week
Forex Week In Review May 8-13
Market Feels Vulnerable Long EUR
EURO and Peripheries are in the Crosshairs
EURO Bulls Reloading?
EURO to Survive a Greek Haircut?
EURO is looking for that exit
Forex Week in Review: May 1-6
Correction or Reversal? Perhaps NFP can tell
Trichet turning more hawkish?
Euro Posturing Begins
Dollar friendly as Risk loses its Bite
Bin Laden Dollar Premium Short Lived

April

Forex Week in Review: April 24-29
Deja vu for Dismal Dollar
Dollar Negativity Remains Contagious
Focus on the releases not what Bernanke says in Q&A
Long Dollar Contrarian likes these EUR Levels
Forex Week in Review: April 16-21
US Dollar Bear Cycle Has A Ways To Go
Reasons for the upsurge in Risk Appetite
EURO Losing Policy Divergence Support
Dollar gains by Default
Forex Week in Review: April 10-15
Dollar Junk not EURO
EUR and Dollar trade on fear
Dollar remains Fools Gold
Dollar not Sick it’s Terminal
Forex week in review: April 3-8
Dollar in the Dog House
How Hawkish is Trichet?
EURO gets Green Light to Advance Further
Bernanke and PBoC pressurize EURO
EURO needs a rate hike
Forex week in review: March 24-April 1
Focus on the Battle within the FED not NFP

March

EURO oblivious to Irish Stress Test
Hawks support dollar against Yen and Swiss
FED Hawk trumps Trichet
Short dollars does not support the EURO
Forex Week in Review-March 25th
EURO Crapshoot
A EUR sinking feeling
Event risk leaves EUR longs vulnerable
No reason to sell the EUR just yet
EUR ‘toppish’ ahead of EFSF ratification
What to expect with Yen G7 intervention
EUR under threat from weak stop losses
EURO to suffer further losses
Periphery yields support short EUR
EURO is Tired
A EURO short is born
Week in Review-March 4th
NFP can only be strong..if not.. then..
Trichet ‘Stand and Deliver’
EURO ‘Caught in a Trap’
Dove Bernanke to push EUR higher

February

Hawkish drum beat points to a strong EUR
Week in Review-Feb 25th
EUR could be the Joker
Dollar stops here after EUR s/l hunting?
Away MPC Team score a victory for GBP
ECB ‘exit’ safe heaven strategies
Week in Review-Feb 18th
Market apathy favors EUR for now
EUR Bulls don’t’ be Fooled
King’s stalling has GBP stuttering
Time to sell those EUR’s?
EURO continues to Bleed
Week in Review-Feb 11th
Reasons or Excuses to Own Some Dollars
Bernanke waves Dollar Pompoms at Euro peripheries
Bernanke to Support the EURO
No surprise China hikes rates
EUR remains Lethargic
Week in Review-Feb 4th
EUR bulls see Red-More blood after NFP?
Trichet’s Yada Yada to hurt the EURO
EUR shorts to push the currency higher
What’s EUR’s relative value?

January

EURO inflation an opportunity to Sell
Market bets a short EUR win today
Forget inflation-Ireland seeking external debt advice help EUR?
No Oscar for King’s Speech-EUR a winner
EUR sympathizes with Sterling
EUR Neutrals trump the Bears
With the EURO’s will there is a way
EUR short is a pain
Hold on to that EUR short just a little bit longer
Trading EUR a game of patience
EURO Surge no Game Changer
It’s costly being a EURO Bear
Buy that Rumor Sell the EUR
Buy or Bye PIIGS Paper?
No Irish luck for Portugal
Expected NFP fallout
Still No EURO Buyers
Portugal provides the excuse to short EUR
EURO shorts lose their mojo

2010 Articles

December

A EURO trader’s Christmas
EUR crapshoot
EURO-three strikes your out
EURO Jackals lie in wait
Dollar loses its Swagger
EURO Buyers and Sellers beware
Moody’s plays the Grinch, Dollar rally limited
EUR shorts will be squeezed
Derail the Dollar for the rest of December
China Hikes, focus again on US Yields
Yield for a Stronger Dollar
Six quick excuses to own the Dollar
Market seeks excuses to short Euro
PD is a Short Seller of the EUR
Buy Bye EURO
Exposed to ECB disappointment risk
EUR do we reload?

November

EUR dancing to the same tune
EUR is no winner
EURO Black Friday for the peripheries
EUR relief rally on the way?
Euro-zone data digested sell the EUR preferred
Republic downgrade hurts EUR focus shifts to Iberia
Irish clarity needed to support EUR
EURO clearance for take off?
Emerald Isle losing EURO fight
Chinese fears curb EURO demand
Bernanke you have got it wrong
Merkel’s Europe Looks Small
80 Billion Euro Irish Bailout Package?
G20 head fake
Chinese and US ‘hot’ dollars all the same
EUR periphery debt beats Bernanke
Smelling PIIGs erase post QE2 gains
Printing press Smelling PIIGS dollar EURO and now NFP?
Todays Central Bank trifecta BoE ECB and BoJ
EURO has nowhere to go but higher
Dollar debasing jet-stream
‘Shock and Awe to Shucks and Oh’ in two days

October

Month-end dollar love-fest is on
Worry about EURO event risk not US
Event risk saves the dollar
EURO staring down 1.4500
G20 Green Light for Risk and QE2
G20 Event risk bids dollar higher
EUR held hostage by dollar
Pricing in, out, not enough or too much QE2
Not the data-how much QE2 needs pricing in or out?
Shock and Awe the dollar is higher
Bernankes lemming one direction short dollar bet
Monetary Authority of Singapores gift to Bernanke
Open Season to sell the buck and love that EUR
EUR’s 11% gain really too much?
Currency wars on hiatus as Jobs take center stage
Jobs play second fiddle to devaluation race
QE and free money the final solution
To QE or not to QE that is the question

September

A stagnant BOJ a floundering Dollar and robust EUR make sense?
Sovereign Debt Default Dominate
QE2 Sinks Dollar
Periphery Yield Spreads Provide EUR Resistance
Primary objective of the FED
No action just words from Helicopter Ben
Irish Bonds Drag EUR higher
Central Bank Exchange Rate fixing trumps Yuan revaluing
Kan a weaker Yen currency policy succeed? Noda lot of hope with the BOJ
EURO-China love affair
Canadas Loonie Winning Strategy
No EURO Irish Wake Just Yet
Irelands Euro crisis and its not soccer
Shock European Banks under Capitalized
NFP or Russian Roulette anyone
NFP herding us to No Mans Land
Lack of Confidence in the FED would never happen almost never

August

FED and BOJ Losing Investors Focus
FED to mimic the BOJ
Risk hinges on Helicopter Bernanke
Bernanke to dig at Jackson
Noda Yen for me thank you
YEN Yada Yada
EUR on verge of tipping
EUR bulls have their tails between their legs
Bring back the EUR conviction or the Eureka light bulb
Bank of Japan you are costing us money
Japan China and the EU bully the dollar
Risk Aversion full steam ahead without the Yen
Germany is not the EURs nemesis
JPY intervention 15-years later
Helicopter Ben Start Them Presses
Bernanke and the Feds statement tinkering will heighten volatility
The largest economy needs stimulus Take that bet?
NFP Gospel according to BLS
EUR Bears hanging tough ahead of policy decisions
QE2 is sinking the dollar
10 things to consider when pondering a Double-Dip

July

Tough Love finally for the EUR
Dollar Bashing Favors EUR for Now
Discipline trading required as the EUR grinds higher
Roll the Dice EUR Up or Down
Holding a EUR position is playing with fire
The Dirt on Stress Tests
Stressed Thinking about the Tests? Liar, of course you are
Market wary of Stress Tests before betting Farm
US double dip indicators to remain strong
Faith in the EUR is the lesser of two evils
The squeeze commences as EUR doubts begin
EUR move painful with Bulls now appearing close to top
Da Bears EUR offside
Greece provides an opportunity to sell the EUR
EUR oversold positions gone the currency can slide
EUR’s dog day afternoon
Is Trichet any good at liars poker?
Lax Stress-Tests to hurt EUR
EUR stalking to pounce higher
Euro to ‘buck’ the NFP trend
Has NFP got the strength to surprise?

June

EU fear of liquidity crunch exaggerated dollar falls
Double-dip debate derails EUR again
Canada $1 billion G20 answer
G20 risk aversion strategies applied
Feds growth concerns fuel market fears
Bernanke fears encourage risk aversion
EUR appetite lost
China’s reval smokescreen for G8
EUR positions require their own Stress Tests
Weak EUR shorts not amused
EUR squeeze not policy induced running flat
Expectations of dollar appreciation have weakened
EUR small squeeze has begun
EUR hobbling higher
Investors seek a credible Trichet
EUR in no-mans land
EUR out of breath downside
HUF dog and pony show stops EUR bleeding
EUR to lose in NFP smokescreen
A EUR trend not correction
EUR only spluttering as Yen loses safe heaven appeal
EUs double dip squeeze for EURO

May

EURO going nowhere fast
EURO month end requirements are early
Merkel madness may sink EU
EUR correction a trend reversal for irrational traders
IMF warning sticker on Spain distresses EUR
Trichet and Political risk encourages dumping EUR
Merkel’s call for ‘orderly default’ supports EUR shorts
Cannot short stocks or bonds, short EUR’s even more?
EUR entering ‘fly zone’?
The EUR record short position paints an ugly picture
Is the EUR in for a surprise today?
Ascension Day is not for the EUR
Is the EUR’s demise out of gas?
A Trillion gets the EUR Nothing
EU with its ‘shock and awe’ declares ‘all in’
Trichet leads traders into the ‘black-hole’
Trichet and Co. What are you going to do for me?
EUR losing Stamina and Will to Exist
Trichet and Co. are ‘lousy poker players’
EU/IMF fail to support the EUR

April

Month-End needs Overshadow Greece and China
Rating Agencies are Over-rated, China could Re-value this Weekend
Greek Contagion Spreads as Trichet Heads to Germany
Euro Falls after Merkel Comments on Greek Aid and Portugal Contagion
Euro Lower as Greek Aid Package Begins Ratification Process
Greece Asks for Bailout as Wall Street Sent to Room without Supper
Greece Caught Between the IMF and a Hard Place
Greece Starts Aid Talks Risk Appetite Returns
Goldman to Announce Profits as Greece Works on its Poker Face
Goldman Under Fire as Germany and UK Begin Probes
German Professors move to block Greek Aid
Euro Falters as Greek Bailout must pass multiple Parliaments
Obama to Focus on Financial Regulation as Brown Admits Mistakes
First Greek Bond Auction stops Euro Advance
Greeks refunding an eyesore for the EUR
Greek bailout is a Euro bailout, but, for how long?
Geithner’s prodding of ‘Panda’ irritates China
Greece is cancerous for the EUR
US Treasury yields support the dollar index on Easter Monday
NFP to ‘infinity and beyond’-hardly
Typical Non-Farm payroll makes the EUR and Dollar flounder

March

EUR head-fake to unnerve weak dollar longs
EURO bears to relapse before NFP
Look East for Dollar direction.
US and China to control ‘their’ EURO
Euro’s deflation outshines China’s covert retaliation
Trichet’s EUR fights for survival
Greek ‘a la carte’ not for Trichet
Merkel No to Aid-EUR limbo
Greece playing Russian roulette with EURO blanks
EURO ‘unity with promises’ broken
EU officials throw Greece a small life preserver
A EURO parachute has holes
EURO condemned and not just to a tight trading range
A EURO bear market rally in the making
China to exit stimulus plans?
Greek’s woes passé?
China speculation takes heat off Greece
Greek debacle on hold, EUR and ‘risk’ in vogue
EURO mess is far from over
EUR euphoria over for now
Will the Greek austerity ‘haircut’ appease the market?
EUR wait and see for Greece
Greece will test the EURO even with a rescue package

February

EURO-Greek woes disguised by month end-extensions
EURO mauled by Greco-Turks
A Greek Soap-Opera to derail the EURO
Markets wait for Bernanke and default announcements
With Bernanke engaged with Humphrey-Hawkins, EUR’s direction dictated by Greece
Bernanke Gives Dollar the Green Light
Greece will cost us all
Greece’s hiatus favors risk and love for Euro’s
EU’s stoic stance is a market positive for the EUR
European banks have a $2.3 trillion PIIGS stake, EUR cannot fail
Germany bears the weight of the EUR
EUR disappoints despite rumors of aid for Greece
Seller beware, EUR to rally $8b’s worth
The EUR and its sovereign concerns dictate position taking
Euro woes deepen relying on NFP for relief
Contagion PIIGS hurt EURO
EU’s Greece is ‘too big to fail’
The Obama dollar hanging tough
For now dollar agenda remains the same

January

Obama’s State of Union lifts global indices while dollar softens
Bernanke dials for support while State of the Union to address Obama’s Volcker Plan
Dollar Supported by Double-Dip Threat
Dollar movement contained, markets digest Obama’s proposal
Obama Dollar Weakens on Fighting Words
China mops up excess liquidity
China Chokes Credit while EUR plummets
PIIGS at Bay
Trichet remains on the offense
PIIGS hurt EUR
Trichet and ECB remain predictable
PBOC is proactive, Bernanke’s Fed is reactive
China to beat Bernanke in hiking rates first
What’s ‘Made in China’, Global Growth is hoping it’s not fake
NFP to justify Bernanke and Obama’s actions
Ahead of NFP, dollar ranges
Is Greece to be cut loose by Europe? Where is the solidarity?
The dollar suffers from a New Years hangover
What’s the dollar to do?

2009 Articles

December

In 2010 Beware Of the Keynesian Hangover
In December the dollar’s King
Currencies ‘Carbon Copy’ moves
The dollar is stuck in ‘no-mans land’
The dollar maintains its holiday edge
The dollar is treading water.
Is the dollar ending the funding role?
The dollar is wilting
Dollar is ‘running with the Bull’s’
Bernanke to deliver the same at the FOMC
Nakheel to Abu Dhabi ‘Please Sir, Can I have some more?’
Abu Dhabi keeps Dubai World’s Islands afloat!
China marches to its own beat!
Darling’s Poison Pill. NY’s Poison Apple?
Dollar Bears Beware!
Sovereignty rating concerns supports dollar?
Recession to Recovery is a Dollar Bear’s Headache
NFP to confirm job losses slowed while unemployment rates tick higher.
Will Trichet stand and deliver?
Investors have a gluttonous ‘risk’ appetite
Are we Dubai or Du-Sell?

November

Dubai not distressed, Dollar gets dumped!
Dubai Debacle drives Dollar Higher
Dollar gets a get out of jail card, temporarily at least
‘Thank’ Bernanke for ‘giving’ us this.
Chinese Banks are falling into US financials acid tests traps
Deflation death spiral killing dollar
Forget Bernanke and Geithner, its risk-aversion that supports the USD
Conflicting Fed statements confusing markets
Bernanke stick to deflation, dollar problem is Geithner’s
Bernanke’s reality is fighting deflation not supporting dollar.
Obama fails to resuscitate the dollar
Dollar Déjà-vu.
Geithner’s strong dollar policy is a myth.
Obama Dollar to ‘Devalue the Way to Prosperity’!
Cash-cow Bernanke is the dollar’s nemesis
The dollar has no supporters!
NFP trading is for contrarians!
Bernanke ‘stood and delivered’ Trichet and King your next
Bernanke’s ‘extended period’?
Failing Banks Support Dollar Appetite
The Dollar needs Life-Support.

October

Fiscal Steroids Programs Promote Risk and Carry Trades.
The dollar is getting oxygen.
Too ‘Big to fail’ is getting too ‘Big to Bail’
Yields aid the dollar!
China does not want the dollar?
Obama’s ‘Lost Decade’, made in Japan.
Yes Comrade! Obama ‘orders’ pay cuts. What’s happening to Capitalism?
European policy makers, a team consisting of individual actions. Disaster!
Bernanke’s iPod play list urges ‘US to be frugal and Asia to consume more’
The dollar sees red!
Bernanke, what have you done?
Are Bernanke and the Fed not USD bearish?
No dollar crisis here!
Resurrecting the dollar?
Bernanke gives the dollar a boost with rate talk
Predictable King-Trichet
Where is your ‘double-dip’ now Roubini? Greed got us into this mess and greed is getting us out and into another bubble!
The ‘Big Dollar’ has caught more than the Flu! Where is its vaccine?
‘Roubini Recession, Bernanke Depression’- a new Dylan title?
9.8% US Unemployment Rate with over 10.4 million on Jobless Benefits.
G7 has seen the light, it wants to be the ‘big dollars’ crutch!

September

Do not adjust your monitors!
Is the USD getting ‘flu’ like symptoms again?
Bernanke and Co. agree to continue to give free money!
Foreign Widgets paid in USD’s are expensive now!
The Punch Drunk ‘dollar’ is Another Headache!
A USD Calm before the Storm!
Question to Obama and Bernanke. How many Initial, Continuing, Extended and Emergency Claim Recipients are there? …..+10.35m Jobless Americans to be precise!
Bernanke’s ‘USD’ Is Entering the Abyss!
Bernanke Feels Weak!
Welcome to the Silly-Season for anything ‘USD’ related!
Resuscitating the USD!
‘Buck’ is terminally ill!
Up, Up and Up……Bang, Bubble and Burst!
Black And Blue And Not Green All Over!
The Bullies Are Back In The School Yard Beating On ‘Mighty Buck’!
Will NFP Create The Perfect Storm?
The FED Is As Confused As We Are!
Fear of Another Financial Flop beats Good Fundamentals!
If China’s Not Thirsty For The ‘Black-Stuff’, Who Is?

August

China And Japan Go In Opposite Directions!
Capital-Markets Cannot Have Long Boring Summer Days!
Capital Markets Trade Sideways-No Fun to be Had!
I am confident that these Confidence numbers are not!
Welcome back Ben Bernanke!
Economics 101=the Roubini way!
‘Every breath you make Ben Bernanke, we will be watching you’!
Is China healthy again?
China is our savior? But, it’s entering a ‘bear market’!
Tuesday’s are for consolidation!
The summer rally is over!
China Stocks indexes are down, why are we happy?
Bernanke is ‘flexible’ in his delivery!
Bernanke befriends the Buck today!
Will Bernanke and Co. push back?
It’s Bernanke’s turn to take center stage!
As expected-NFP surprises!
Is the USD the world’s reserve currency? Nope……Carry? Maybe!
Green shoots are smokin!
Forex is trading on fumes!

July

Bring back the Bulls Pamplona!
Is this month over yet? Forex is Hard!
China sneezes and the World catches the Flu!
The next kill-joy, ‘Commercial Property Loans Go Bad’!
Bernanke’s ‘Reality Show”!
Canada’s Recession is over!
Ben you are doing us proud!
Ben Bernanke, the sequel!
Ben and his magic wand!
Michigan wins at +15% unemployment!
Sterling has H1N1 Symptoms!
Risk appetite on the Boil or have we turned it down to a Simmer?
Are Global equities providing us with ‘False Hopes’?
‘Depth with little Volume’!
The ‘Buck feels confident’!
‘Green Shoots’ and Pesticides don’t mix!
G8 should reconvene at MJ’s ‘Neverland’!
Don’t trust the Swiss?
The ‘Buck’ get’s a get out of jail card!
Say it ain’t so Joe?
‘Less bad is Good’, but for how long?
When they cry you buy. When they are ‘Yellen’ you’re selling!

June

Markets peaking?
China gives the ‘Green Light’!
Capital Markets this week provided something for everyone!
USD ‘bears’ be afraid, be very very afraid!
Commit Bernanke!
Equity signs of a Bear market rally ending!
Is this the Summer U-turn?
It’s over…..European Leaders want exit strategy!
The US consumer-M.I.A!
BRIC came, saw, and gave us hot air!
Throw a BRIC at the USD strength!
Sell, sell, sell and sell again!
No love between the Fed and the US consumer!
Questions for the day?
US Banks 2nd Q earning’s to be dismal!
European Banks to follow Americans!
‘An unambiguous sign of improvement’ Is it really?
A few good reasons ‘not’ to hate the US dollar entirely…..!
Trichet to pressurize the US dollar even further!
‘Supranational Currency’ to kill the US dollar!
‘Slowing down the slow-down’ not helping the US dollar!
Both the US dollar and GM are broke!

May

Are US Treasuries to be Tax deductable?
The appetite for US Treasuries is difficult to digest!
Chrysler out, GM in!
North Korea to test Capital Markets nerves!
North Korea is not on Holiday!
No life-line for the ‘once’ mighty dollar!
Bernanke’s minutes include disclaimers! Markets will not be happy.
Consumers hoarding ‘Cash’ is not helping. Spend!
Perception has Risk-appetite advancing!
Is this the beginning of the end of the ECB?
Bernanke’s ‘green shoot’ economics is suffering frost burn!
Greenspan Hawking Real Estate!
Bernanke demands Banks to identify other ‘risks’!
US dollar to renew ‘signs of stress’?
Lost 5.1 million jobs, how many today?
Geithner is no fool?
‘Tumultuous Thursday’-Bring it on!
Which 10 Banks are in trouble?
Is this the week that Capital Markets die?
Stress tests results postponed!

April

Equities trump ‘flu’ alert!
‘Flu’ cannot sicken Confidence index surprise!
Panic in Capital Markets as Flu cannot be contained!
Swine Flu heightens fear in FI and FX!
The Day of our Lies?
This ‘stress’ tension is helping no-one!
‘Stress test for dummy’s’ by Tim Geithner!
Is it true? $400 billion! When will the bleeding stop?
The next down wave is here!
Trichet’s Tokyo Tirade
Is China in trouble?
Markets are discounting poor earnings. Watch for Citi!
Obama’s administration is to slay the ‘Mammoth’!
Banks ‘Mum’ on stress tests!
Who wants’ to be King at the BOE?
The lights remain out!
Doomsayers are loud again!
Convinced yet? Now, what do we do?
Forget PPIP its G20′s PPC-Public Private Capitalism!
G20 and Your answer’s are……?
Obama’s No Fool!

March

My way or No way! Obama
The ‘Sea of Red’ never-ending!
NFP surprises over?
Geithner is rolling the dice….
Geithner and Bernanke seek ‘absolute power’?
Toxic Assets or Toxic liabilities? Geithner, what are you trying to offload?
Tim, it’s your time to shine!
Timmie, Say it ain’t so?
Bye Bye USD$! Is the Fed creating a covert protectionist policy similar to that of the SNB? ……Nope?
Is the FED to buy Bonds?
Easy formula to remember according to today’s investment strategists:
Are bank’s profit hints at a warning in disguise?
Is this a ‘Swiss Melt’ policy?
Is Citi insolvent? Playing politics leading us astray?
The shenanigans at Citi! Do we not learn?
Will Asian indices change our negativity?
Is this a Recession or Depression?
NFP, will it be the loss of -1 million jobs?
Expect Trichet and the ECB to confuse the day!
How much Cash is really needed for the Banks? Can we count that far!
How low can we go?
Can the EUR survive?

February

Obama is following Robin Hood’s philosophy!
UK Banks to be nationalized-their economy is plummeting out of control!
Bear Market Rally?
The Great Recession!
The arrogance of US Financials will persist despite being semi nationalized!
Obama’s week of Contagion…..!
Obama’s done with the selling, sit back and let the ‘Band-Aid’ take effect….
‘Obama’s $30 Billion dollar Ride…..’
President Obama’s stimulus plan to be signed today
OANDA ASIA PACIFIC Opens for Business
Obama Mortgage Plan boosts Stock Markets Increases Risk Appetite
Wall Street CEOs facing Congress declare no more bonuses are coming
US Bank Rescue plan lacks clarity, fails at confidence.
Obama’s Plan passes Senate as Bad Bank resurfaces
President Obama urges Stimulus package approval after weaker NFP
USD receives a boost from Walmart and new accounting proposal
The ‘Thain Tax’ has been imposed!
Motor Industry in ‘Death Spiral’!
Obama expects more Banks to fail!
‘Bad Bank’ will pay ‘Cash for Trash’…..we all end up paying in the end!

January

EUR’s ‘Death Wish 2’…….introducing Soros!
European Confidence falls to record low!
‘Let them eat cake…..again’!
Another -73k job cuts yesterday (Caterpillar, ING, Home Depot) …and counting!!
Social discontent to leave a stain on Capital Markets!
Obama waves Red Flag to China!
Japanese housewives to be ‘burned’ in FX Markets!
US Banks are insolvent!!
Can President Obama live up to the hype and hope?
Historical week for everyone!
Is this week over yet!!
What’s the difference between Ireland and Iceland? –One letter and about 6-months!
How the mighty have fallen….Citibank a crumpling empire!
Reality bites!……Skip a deeper recession, go straight to Depression?
Will Trichet pull the Trigger?
Depression beckons?
Non-farm Payroll to hit -1m…when?
An ecological disaster looming-The FED to destroy trees to print money!
Russia is on the Offensive again!
Tax aid from Obama….
Another Day another Year, but, same old problems!

2008 Articles

December

Happy New Year……..??
2009 a ‘Year of Hope’?
The EUR benefits from the Middle-East.
Seasons Greetings-‘Back to the future’!
Nothing positive this side of Christmas!
Expect irrational currency movements this Christmas week!
A Christmas to remember and forget!!!
Japan threatens intervention. Will we see verbal intervention from Trichet and the Swiss?
Quantitative easing has been declared!!!-dust off Gutenberg’s printing press.
Bernanke battles ‘depression’?
Are the US Treasury actions just a legitimized ‘Ponzi’ scheme?
R.I.P-Detroit three!
Russia loses control, Iceland in deficit, Swiss nearing zero, Sarkozy wants stimulus-this is only a ‘technical’ recession!!!
A Christmas wish list…..a Job?
Obama ‘O-phoria’! Here to stay?
Early Seasonal gift from President Elect Obama!
NFP -533k and the unemployment rate ticks up to 6.7%
‘Tepid’ Trichet to disappoint again?
Investors prepare for an eye-popping NFP headline!
This ‘Great Recession’ expected to lose millions of more jobs!
Investors seek ‘risk aversion’ trade ideas!

November

Trichet and Co. to be more aggressive next week!
Bernanke and Paulson can breath easier this week, next week will be the backbreaker!
Are Bernanke and Paulson on the ‘back-foot’ again?
Obama’s ‘o-phoria’ is dead in the water!
Obama’s appointments are appeasing Capital Markets for now. Is Citibank to spoil the party?
With Global Equities plunging once again, what financial leader is driving the bus? There is no one staying on and no faith in any driver!
Forget disinflation, Panic is coming and it’s supporting safe heaven US dollar for now.
To Bail out or not to bail out, that is the question as GM, Ford and Chrysler wait
USD recovers as Auto bailout flounders amid Investor Risk Aversion
G20 meeting ends without any concrete answers as Japan enters recession.
USD and Wall Street recover before the G20 leaders meeting in Washington
Like a House of Cards, Global Economies are falling. ‘The Buck’ is King!
Safe heaven USD continues to be supported. Is this the end of the EUR?
A somber day, a somber USD?
China’s half-a-trillion investment aids global equities and the ‘carry’ trade.
Today’s a reality check, NFP to shed more than -300k jobs!
Obama’s honeymoon will be short lived as Global recession deepens. Is it time for the USD to shine again?
With President Obama winning, Is Fixed Income, Forex and equities hung over?
Is Obama a foregone conclusion? Equities, Bonds and Forex have priced a win. If not, where to?
King, Trichet expected to be aggressive this week. ‘Big Dollar’ safer heaven?

October

Bernanke and Co. wipe $10 trillion off equity values this month. Is there more to follow?
Bernanke ‘stands and delivers’ or does he?
Will the Fed’s Chair Ben surprise us today?..
Global equities get the ‘green light’!
Forex and Equity massacre continues….
Greenspan comes clean-faults led to Capital Markets tsunami!
How to loose in forex and stocks with out trying… watch your portfolio!
EUR vs. USD……….round 2!
The US dollar finds love again… but, for how long?
Whats with the ‘Big dollar’…………….we lost the ‘love’?
Forex and Equities embrace slippery Oil prices……..!
Where is the Financial Leadership? Brown, Bernanke or Bozo….!!
Is the Party over for Forex and Equities?
Dow advances +11.6%, Dollar dips……We happy yet?
Forex waits to take lead from G7……More ‘cuts’ coming?
Are Forex markets acting rational……?
7 Cbanks cut rates in a coordinated interest rate reduction!!
Apocalyptic Financial Crisis?
The Credit Tsunami hits FOREX!
Will Today’s NFP and ‘Bank-aid’ plan lead to ‘coordinated interest rate cuts’ for Forex?
Forex markets believe ‘aid’ passing is a given and Global Recession is looming!
Are Forex Markets waiting for a ‘vetoed’ plan to support the greenback again?

September

Are CBanks about to orchestrate a global rate ‘cut’?
A Herculean Greenback is aided by TARA (Troubled Asset Relief Act.)
US dollar sideswiped in Forex markets over ‘toxic waste’ delay!
Bailout plan negotiations hurt USD as Bush warns of recession.
The US dollar performs like a ‘wounded bear’-erratic and dangerous!
Is Forex witnessing the ‘demise’ of the US dollar?
Fait Complete! GSNY and MSNY-investment banking no more.
General Custer and Bernanke, will he suffer a similar fate?
Further Financial Fallout’s dominate Forex!
AIG 1 Lehman O-as the FED takes control!
Contagious Credit markets are giving the Fed a headache!
Lehman bankruptcy pressurizes USD in Forex!
Forex takes direction from Lehman!
Forex declares ‘dollar’ King!
Is the ‘big’ dollar exposed to further weakness?
Is the USD loosing support after Freddie and Fannie seizure?
Faith restored in Forex?
NFP to surprise Forex!
ECB and BOE will dominate Forex.
Euro policy makers beat up on Euro while ‘buck’ reigns supreme!
Forex USD ‘bulls run rabid’!

August

The IEA calms down Gustav fears and helps the USD recover
Durable goods keep USD afloat, as ECB’s Weber offers hawkish comments to boost EUR
Hurricane Gustav pushes Oil prices higher as the USD stops its advance versus the EUR.
UK Holiday results in low liquidity, USD Bulls still moving forward
Fed commitment to remain vigilant boosts USD bulls
Forex cannot keep the USD down!
The USD takes a breather!
The USD reigns supreme?
Buy US$, wear diamonds?
A passive ‘greenback’?
Robust US$ Remains!
US$ little changed ahead of CPI!
Fed’s Fisher diagnoses the US Economy with anemia.
US$ in line for Gold!
US$ declines, movements excessive!
A herculean US$?
ECB and BOE to follow suit?
Fed remains on course?
NFP D-day!

July

Forex embrace Bush, Bernanke and Paulson!
Is ADP data to surprise Forex?
Forex siesta part 2!
Forex siesta starts!
Bank’s see red! Where is USD$?
EUR wilts, USD roars, for now!
Plosser and Paulson Profess a stronger USD$!
USD$ treading water for now!
USD$-Where to now?
Another ‘wild and crazy day’ in FX?
Forex reprieve before the ‘onslaught’?
Bernanke:Can he ‘switch hit’?
USD$ crisis is underway!
Paulson supports Freddie and Fannie!
Yellen Louder!
Fed Hawks seek ‘neutral’ with hikes!
Bernanke: Soothsayer or Gambler?
Freddie and Fannie Flop?
Will the G8 perform?
Trichet does not deliver- Is the USD$ wanted?
‘Terrifying Thursday’ ECB + NFP=weaker USD$!!!
Weekly Oil Inventory day, will it help?
Risk Aversion strategies dominate as USD$ avoided!!

June

Oil prices running ‘amuck’!
‘We’re caught in a trap’!
Buffett: Bull Bear Bernanke=Stagflation!
Bernanke ‘Hawk or Dovish’ today?
Bernanke to take center stage.
Jeddah a bust?
Dean’s FX| Will Oil Prices Break down?
Dean’s FX|SNB and BOE surprise the markets.
Dean’s FX|Fed’s lack of evidence to hike!
Dean’s FX| USD$ Bears are bullish!
Dean’s FX| G8 commodity and stagflation concerns
Dean’s FX|Lisbon, Osaka and the EUR!
Dean’s FX|Bernanke, Bonds and Beer!
Dean’s FX 11th June|Stagflation dominates?
Dean’s FX 10th June|Bernanke is the USD$ backstop!
Dean’s FX 9th June|Help the USD$!
Dean’s FX 6th June|Employment D-Day!
Dean’s FX 5th June|ECB and BOE countdown.
Dean’s FX 4th June|Bernanke attempts to bully FX Markets!
Dean’s FX 3rd June|Financial downgrade fallout!
Dean’s FX June 2nd|Oil Top?

May

April

EUR to the Moon!

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