Forex Fundamental Analysis

Last May, Forbes magazine published a lengthy story about sea turtles. Not the yellow, greenish ones that have been around for thousands of years and can be found swimming in warm and temperate waters throughout the world.

Last week saw all of the world’s major markets in turmoil as investors continued to react to significant losses on the China stock market through the week, although the worst of it seemed to be easing off by week’s end.

The issue of migrants and refugees is seldom out of the news these days with tragic loss of life as would-be economic migrants take their chances trying to cross into EU territory from North Africa, often in unseaworthy and overcrowded boats.

Sales at the moment can be found not on New York’s Fifth Avenue or on London’s Oxford Street but on Wall Street where stocks are now selling for a percentage of their recent prices.

Last January, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang revealed a vision for his country at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he committed to structural reform based on moderate, consumer-led growth.

Under the Greek constitution, if a government has been in power for less than a year and tenders its resignation to the President, other political parties are offered the chance to see if they can form an administration and take up the mandate.

As the storm clouds around the nose-diving Chinese stock market threaten more widespread gloom as nervous investors sell stocks around the world, it is perhaps timely to focus on a more upbeat assessment for one of the world’s leading economies, the UK.

Whilst the Chinese economy is the world’s second largest, it must be remembered that the government of China is still the communist party and that free market capitalism does not sit easily with communist philosophy.

Last week saw all of the world’s major markets in significant falls as investors react to weak economic data from China.

A fight over disposable diapers between two families turned physical recently when a large retail store ran out of the product. It happened in Kobe, Japan, and it wasn’t the first time the two sides had confronted each other, having met on previous diaper-buying binges.

Gold traders have to wonder why Gold, apparently an immutable store of value and the world’s only true store of value, has been trending downwards continuously for almost three years, as gold trading seems to be seeing a surfeit of traders wishing to buy gold.

How often have we heard that behind every good man is a good woman? Whether we agree with that or not, what is certain is that women are the ones holding forth in most thriving businesses today.

Remember all the talk about baby boomers and how they would change the world? Now it’s the millennial generation that is making headlines as a new generation of entrepreneurs and innovators make their presence felt in every aspect of our lives all over the world.

It’s taken Americans years to get over the concept that Australia is a land of aborigines and kangaroos. And it wasn’t until after WWII, when the island separated from the United Kingdom that Australia started to come into its own.

Last week saw the American major markets make gains whilst the rest of the pack lost ground – the reverse of last week. Get the analysis for the week of August 17 2015 here.