Forex Fundamental Analysis

European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, thinks that the question over the survival of the Euro has been resolved and that the single currency is here to stay.

With the worries of a plunge over the fiscal cliff now receding, markets can get back to the business of worrying about the years-long problems that have been plaguing the Eurozone economies instead. Get this special piece on Europe from DailyForex here.

The Global Financial Crisis was chiefly sparked by a loss of confidence in a single debt vehicle, the securitised sub-prime mortgage.

Markets ended the first week of 2013 in bullish mood, following on from the US leadership’s avoidance of the dreaded fiscal cliff. All of the major markets ended the week higher.

2012 could be regarded as the year of the banking scandal with bank employees being found guilty of massive fraud. orchestrated manipulation of a key international borrowing rate and at least one major bank found guilty of money laundering and sanctions busting.

In London, the FTSE 100 index rose to its highest level for 17 months, breaking through the 6000 point barrier to close at 6027. Get the full roundup following the US economic crisis here.

… and lands on a ledge a few metres below. Get the fundamental analysis here.

See how the markets fared during the final week of 2012, and what may be in store for commodities and currencies in the coming year.

2012 started out better than many had expected, but then lived-down to expectations as global demand stalled and debt worries persisted, most notably within the Eurozone.

If Fed Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke had a nickel for every utterance and printing of the catch phrase he coined way back when, the words “fiscal cliff” would be making him a millionaire several times over… of course given the depreciated value of the U.S. Dollar that’s not worth quite as much as it used to be.

The Japanese voted for a change of government at the weekend and the incoming administration will have to deal with the problems that have been plaguing the current leadership.

What can we expect from the markets now that Japan will be getting a new prime minister? Find out at DailyForex.com

It was a good week for the world’s major stock exchanges with all of the major markets making gains. See how all the markets did here, with this fundamental analysis before the holidays.

The days when a banker’s word was sacrosanct are long gone as anybody who follows the financial news is only too aware. The latest major bank to fall from grace is Swiss bank UBS which has got itself embroiled in the Libor scandal.

During the Cold War, the peace was kept by a doctrine accepted by both sides called MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction. Both sides knew that if nuclear war broke out that they would not survive it.