Forex Fundamental Analysis

The latest in the long line of conspirators colluding with virtually all of the UK’s mainstream politicians, leaders of industry, heads of state, and international bodies is Peter Sutherland.

Last Friday was the final trading session for May from the perspective of these summaries. It saw all of the major markets making ground over the previous week’s closing values. Get the analysis for May 30, 2016 here.

The release of CB Consumer Confidence data for May is due out on Tuesday. What is this report and why is it important?

The UK government aims to bring an end to the nation’s current account deficit before the end of the current parliament.

It is hard to be surprised that so many people around the world are disenchanted with politics and politicians in modern society.

Eurozone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund came together Wednesday on an arrangement that paves the way for a new loan-schedule for Greece and sets out how the country could get debt relief in the future.

The Greek debt crisis and impending “Grexit” have been absent from the headlines in recent months, following Syriza’s U-turn and decision to ask for a third bailout (worth €86 billion).

How safe is flying these days? With security officials continuing their investigation into what happened to the recently downed EgyptAir Flight 804, many travelers can't help but question the risks they face when boarding their next flight.

Alexander Van der Bellen, a former Green party leader running as independent, has nabbed the recent election for President of Austria. Van der Bellen, a retired economics professor, narrowly defeated Norbert Hofer, of the anti-immigrant, leftwing Eurosceptic Freedom Party.

Although its establishment in 1948 was controversial, history has looked kindly on Nai Bevan, Labour’s health secretary of the day, and the National Health Service (NHS) is one of the most popular and proudest achievements of Britain in the post-World War II years.

Last week was again mixed for the world’s major markets with the Dax and the Dow Jones slipping. Get the fundamental analysis for the week of May 23, 2016 here.

The mighty U.S. dollar is making a comeback. According to analysts at Deutsche Bank AG., the world’s second-largest currency trader, the greenback’s three-week rally is just the beginning and that the currency’s strength should continue for some time.

China has become the second largest economy in the world, trading (and indeed out-trading) with the big boys of capitalism, but it remains a single party communist state where, traditionally at any rate, capitalists are the enemy in a class war.

It may seem of late that even a small interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve Bank can cause a ripple effect in world markets. Or maybe it’s just the threat of the rate hike that is creating havoc across the globe.

Going into 2016, the US Federal Reserve had a battle plan that called for four 0.25% hikes to the interest rate over the course of the year, in a bid to restore interest levels to near their historical average.