Forex Fundamental Analysis

Last week saw all the world’s major markets making with some gains. Get the fundamental weekly analysis for major currencies and commodities for the week of October 26, 2015 here.

The Chinese government remains focused on jump starting growth in its sputtering economy and continues to make moves toward financial reform.

Gold has been edging up in recent months, but the outlook for the precious metal over the long-term is still dull. Gold analysts foresee prices of the yellow metal falling to $1,000 in 12 months as the Federal Reserve normalizes monetary policy.

It was as recently as this March that the European Central Bank (ECB) followed suit with the likes of the Bank of England, The Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan and engaged upon its own quantitative easing activities within Eurozone markets.

The majority of American baby boomers don’t worry much about what’s happening at the Social Security Administration. They’re already setup in the system and for them there is still money in the kitty. It’s the millennials generation that should be watching this issue carefully as they are the ones that will be most affected.

Oil prices headed south Wednesday on reports of continued buildup of U.S. crude inventories impacting further on global oversupply.

Japan seems to be running to stay still. Exports expanded at their weakest rate in more than a year in the year ended last month,

As with most questions about money, there are always two sides to the coin. The current refugee problem is no different, with financial analysts probing the possible effects of these asylum seekers on their country’s and the world’s economies.

Having stood at the helm for nine years as the worst of the financial crisis raged, the government of Steven Harper’s Conservatives has fallen as the economy tried to chart calmer waters.

Last week was a mixed affair the major markets making with some making modest gains, others losing or being all but unchanged. Get the analysis for the week of October 19, 2015 here.

Oil prices don’t seem to be moving up. But that isn’t stopping big oil corporations from looking ahead to the time when a barrel of crude will be back at its previous selling level.

A factor which led the Fed to hold off on a rate increase last month was that employment creation levels had trended down (although overall unemployment remained unchanged).

No matter what actions the U.S. takes to lessen its oil production, and there have been several of late, its stockpiles of crude oil refuse to diminish, preventing oil prices from turning around.

The Republic of Ireland was forced to ask for an EU/IMF bailout for €85 billion towards the end of 2010 as a result of spiralling costs for borrowing on the international money markets.

The latest corporation tax scandal to break centres on the social media giant, Facebook. The company paid a paltry £4327 contribution for its tax on corporate profits in the UK in 2014.