Forex Fundamental Analysis

Trading the USD against other global currencies is also the cheapest way to trade Forex as spreads and commissions for these Forex pairs tend to be cheaper than for Forex crosses that do not involve the USD on one side.

The 2% cash rate in Australia is here to stay—at least for a while. The announcement came following Tuesday’s policy meeting and took many analysts by surprise.

Mortgage borrowing has never been cheaper in the UK and a dazzling array of (limited duration) fixed term rates and tracker rates (linked to the Bank of England’s interest rate) are on offer.

Three important economies have just released data for their manufacturing sectors: China, the UK and the USA and they provide a mixed picture.

The amount of student debt continues to accumulate.Taking a broad view of the situation, it is clear that not much is being done to rectify this situation despite the impact of debt levels on the financial stability of college-educated households’ and the efforts by students to find solutions to the problem.

The Chinese economy is certainly one of the world's most important economies, even if the yuan isn't considered one of the most popular Forex trading currencies.

It may look like the Fed is holding back of late in introducing changes that would affect the U.S. economy, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Last week was a mixed affair for the world’s major markets with Europe showing winners and losers. It marked the final trading session for October 2015.

On first blush, the fact that the US economy has slowed from an annualised figure of 3.9% in Q2 to 1.5% in Q3 would seem to make it highly unlikely that the Federal Reserve might still raise interest rates in 2015, but this may not be so.

Many had expected that 2015 would finally be the year when the Federal Reserve drew a line under the Global Financial Crisis and started on the long path to move interest rates back towards their long-term average value.

At 2:00pm, the FOMC policy committee meets to discuss—once again—whether it will introduce an interest rate hike that would be the first one in close to nine years. What will happen at the meeting today? Get our analysis here.

With oil prices hitting rock bottom and stockpiles of crude sitting on tankers in the Middle East, the issue of energy and where it is heading is a hot topic these days.

The UK was once a powerhouse economy of heavy industry with a substantial coal mining, steel making, ship building and heavy engineering spine.

A preliminary estimate of the fortunes of the UK economy in the third quarter of the year has just been released by the Office for National Statistics.

It would seem that the Fed’s interest rate hike decision is more intertwined with China’s economic situation than at first meets the eye.