Forex Fundamental Analysis

This is a question that oil traders have been asking themselves for months now, as the price of oil has plummeted below $50 per barrel and there is widespread concern that we haven’t yet reached bottom.

With the threat of a Brexit looming ahead, it is worth revisiting Britain’s past relationship with the Eurozone which has been nothing but rocky from the very start.

A central plank of the victorious Conservative party’s election campaign was the promise of an “in-out” referendum on the UK’s continued membership of the European Union.

Last week saw all of the major markets making good gains. Get the Forex fundamental week in review analysis for October 12, 2015 here.

According to Japanese retailers, consumer spending is alive and well. Statistics, however, give a different picture. Officials have cut earnings forecasts and are now warning of weak consumer spending, a key growth engine for Japan at a time when exports and factory output have been hedging.

One striking fact that is evident from the Global Financial Crisis is that no ruling political party has the answer to how to restore their economic fortunes quickly.

China’s economic situation is certainly having an effect on global currencies. Analysts say that the fluctuations in the third largest economy is drawing on its foreign-exchange reserves to such an extent as to lead to inflated price swings in currency markets around the world.

It took over a year of round-the-clock drilling but Israel announced Wednesday the discovery of enough oil to make the country self-sufficient for very many years to come.

The possibility of the Fed introducing an interest rate hike in the next month or two still hovers over Asian markets.

The financial world has been rocked by a series of scandals involving a range of crimes from the knowing mis-selling of payment protection insurance to rate fixing scandals for metals, Forex spot fixing and, most famously LIBOR.

It took over ten years to implement, but the biggest trade pact in two decades was finally signed, sealed and delivered Monday.

One of the largest trade deals for many a year has been agreed between Pacific nations at governmental level, however, before it comes into force it may have a tricky passage through some parliaments.

Whilst the news that the US economy had created 142000 jobs in September sounds pretty good, the figure was way below market expectations for a figure of 205000 and caused a short-lived decline in US stock markets.

As fears go, deflation in the Eurozone is greatly overdone, in my opinion. Deflation is the mirror image of inflation and simply means that prices are falling, rather than rising.

Markets around the world have seen value boiling off as investors nervous about the slowing of the Chinese economy (which is still enjoying what any other nation would regard as phenomenal growth) sell stocks.