Forex Fundamental Analysis

Credit ratings agencies are the bookmakers of the financial world. Their job is to provide investors with an accurate assessment of the risks associated with a given debt vehicle; this includes sovereign bonds.

Last week again saw all the world’s major stock markets losing ground quite heavily on deepening fears of a global economic slowdown. Get the analysis for October 13, 2014 here.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil has dropped back to $88.40 a price last seen in November 2010 (no doubt petrol prices will be plunging back to 2010 levels any day now…).

The Global Financial Crisis was the greatest upheaval to the world’s economies experienced since The Great Depression of the inter-war years.

The remit of The World Bank is to work towards the ending of poverty; it is the largest anti-poverty institution in the world.

The most recent figures released by the US Department of Labor show that the percentage of Americans unemployed and claiming benefits is at its lowest level for six years.

Last week saw all the world’s major stock markets losing ground quite heavily. Get the fundamental analysis for October 6, 2014 here.

In a much anticipated move, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, has announced that the bank will commence a programme of asset purchases later this month.

In the dark days of the global financial crisis, many European states from within the Eurozone found that they were running budget deficits well above the agreed limit of three percent of their GDP that they were required to meet to be allowed to adopt the Euro – even the prudent Germans fell afoul of this limit.

Data for August from Japan shows that manufacturing output bucked analysts’ expectation and fell by 1.5%.

The quarterly growth figures are subject to revision since they are projections based on partial data – as more hard data is received, the numbers become more solid.

Last week saw all the world’s major stock markets losing ground. It marked the final session of the month and the quarter.

In addition to his role as Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney also chairs the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global watchdog body.

Business confidence within the 18 European nations that share the common European currency, the Euro has continued to weaken.

The Republic of Ireland’s financial crisis was triggered by the bursting of a property bubble, leaving the banking sector with huge defaults which risked destroying the sector.