Forex Fundamental Analysis

Mario Monti, the current Italian Prime Minister, had unexpectedly announced earlier this month that he would be resigning his position before the year’s end. Today's special Euro analysis is all about Italy. Get the facts here.

This piece is more about adjusting expectations rather than expressing a very directional view. Check out this fundamental analysis by 4xP here.

Ratings agency Fitch’s continues to break ranks with the other leading ratings agencies, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s in maintain that France should hold onto its AAA credit rating.

The Liberal Democrats have been in power for most of the past fifty years, but lost office in 2009 to the Democratic Party of Japan, in the depths of the global financial crisis.

It was a mixed week for the world’s major stock exchanges with Europe and Japan markets gaining whilst the American markets fell. Get the fundamental analysis here.

The IMF were unwilling to agree to clearing the current payment of funds to Greece under its two IMF/EU bailout accords, despite the fact that the “troika” had recommended that funds be released.

European Union leaders are set to meet on Thursday in a Brussels summit meeting and are likely to approve an agreement for a Eurozone banking union which has been thrashed out by their finance ministers.

The USA is on a countdown to a fiscal catastrophe which will expire with the old year. The future looks shaky, but that shouldn't stop your trading.

The Japanese economy contracted by 0.9% in the third quarter of the year and most analysts expected that the performance in the fourth quarter would return the world’s third largest economy to recession to start the New Year.

Last week, ECB President Mario Draghi made a very important comment regarding interest rates. While the ECB left its rate unchanged at 0.75% until the next meeting, Draghi mentioned that the ECB staff had a long and comprehensive discussion about negative rates.

All of the world’s major markets ended the week up with the exception of the US Nasdaq composite index. Get the Forex fundamental analysis here.

It seems that the downtrend in global demand that we have experienced this year has taken most governments and central bankers by surprise since they have had to revise expectations downwards.

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer gives a progress report on the state of the nation’s economy at this time of the year. It is known, appropriately enough as the autumn statement.

China is now the world’s second largest economy and as such, the fortunes of the nation in economic turns have an impact in other lands. China represents an enormous market for the rest of the world, being the most populace nation on the planet.

With the pressure on the Euro relaxing to a fair extent after the Eurozone’s policymakers agreed to provide Greece with its next bailout payment, support is now being garnered from an unlikely source – Greece!