Forex Currency Markets

Investors worrying about how currency fluctuations impact their investments, may want to take a look at Singapore's emerging market nation. The country’s currency uses a managed float against a basket of top trading partners' bank notes. This reduces large fluctuations in the Singaporean dollar...

In the last year, the Aud-Usd Index has moved up in lockstep with the U.S. equity markets. Are the risk currencies a reliable predictor for the movement of the U.S. stock market? This week the U.S equities markets rebounded from a significant drop. So called financial gurus and financial...

Yesterday’s US ISM index showed the first expansion signs since August 2008 by posting a value of 50.9. Consequently, the Dow Jones rose by over 100 points forcing the highly correlated Euro to highs of 1.4720 overnight - see chart. Earlier this morning, the UK Industrial production dropped...

The last 24 hours have definitely been troubling for the Markets starting with yesterday’s Dow Jones loss of over 200 points. As a result, USD negative correlation with the Dow forced an EURUSD fall of over 150 pips - see Chart. Today’s released US NFP figures has just added further to the gloom by...

Last week’s dramatic rise of the EUR/USD was fueled by increasing trading volumes although the fundamental reasons for doing so were more vague. As such, the EUR/USD dropped out of its new Bull channel overnight falling to 1.4530, see chart. Although the EURO fared well recently against the USD,...