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Japanese may enforce floor for USD/JPY

November 1, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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75.57 was the magic number for the Bank of Japan to step in.

After weaks of jaw-boning the markets, the authorities finally intervened to weaken the currency for the third time this year.

Finance Minister Jun Azumi told reporters yesterday, “I have said many times, if forex moves do not reflect the economic fundamentals and speculative moves last, Japan will take firm measures.”

Once the Bank of Japan sent the rocket blasting at 9.25am yesterday, USD/JPY spiked up more than 300 pips in a matter of 30 minutes. Read more…

USDJPY to rise on BOJ intervention

October 25, 2011 by · 2 Comments
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What was original a 2 day meeting between the European finance chiefs has now been scheduled for 6 days.

With a final announcement scheduled for Wednesday, the lengthy Summit shows that the people in charge are committed to hammer out a solution for the on-going debt woes in Europe.

There are essentially 3 agendas that the finance ministers hope to achieve at the end of the EU Summit: Read more…

Bear Market Blues

September 27, 2011 by · 2 Comments
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We are officially in a bear market.

The bloodshed in the markets last week was breath-taking, with more than US$3.4 trillion (s$4.4 trillion) erased from equity values and over US $1 trillion in the US equity market alone.

Here’s a snapshot of some of the carnage:

1. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its biggest loss since 2008

2. Gold had its biggest one day drop in almost three years, shedding 5per cent

3. Asian currencies had their biggest weekly drop since 1998

Even the MSCI All-Country World Index sank 7.6per cent, entering a bear market for the first time in more than two years. Read more…

Will the Fed announce QE3 this week

September 20, 2011 by · 4 Comments
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Two news have taken centre-stage in the currency world – the trading loss of UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank, and the announcement of a possible QE3 by the Fed this week.

UBS said that its loss came from unauthorized trading over the past three months. The trader responsible for the loss was Kweku Adoboli, has since been arrested for fraud and false accounting. Read more…

Euro Under Pressure

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When Lehman Brothers fell in 2008, the bankruptcy filing of USD640 billion was the largest ever filed in the history of the United States, far exceeding that of Enron and WorldCom.

3 years on, the ghost of Lehman has returned, and the memories of a painful credit crunch are starting to surface yet again.

The 600-pip fall by the EUR/USD has centred around one sentence – “Will Greece default on its payments and exit the Euro?”

As concerns over Greece and contagion fears escalate, European banks have been dealt another blow. A Bloomberg index shows that 46 banks are trading at just 0.58 times book value, the lowest since the post-Lehman lows of March 2009.

This simply means that investors are estimating their assets to be worth just over half what the companies claim. Read more…

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