Day: February 7, 2014

February 7
2014

Euro Struggles After German Court Decision on ECB Bond-Buying

Euro is lower today, thanks in large part to the latest development in the court complaints against the ECB’s bond-buying plan. With concerns over the program, and with worries about the sustainability of the eurozone’s fledgling economic recovery, the euro is struggling on the currency market today. Germany’s Constitutional Court has been looking at the bond-buying program instituted by the ECB in an effort to help prop up the eurozone economy. However, the German Court referred one of the complaints […]

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February 7
2014

NFP Disappoint Yet Again, Dollar Weaker

One of the most important events this week was the release of US nonfarm payrolls, which was expected to ease worries about slowdown of the US economic growth. Yet in reality the employment data was disappointing and sent the US dollar lower. Payrolls demonstrated a meager 75,000 growth in December(revised higher by 1,000 from the initial estimate), and analysts have expected that today’s report would be much better, showing an increase by 185,000. […]

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February 7
2014

Baht Heads to Weekly Rally, Remains in Danger

The Thai baht fell today, but was still heading to weekly gains as last weekend’s elections did not result in escalation of protests and violence, easing concerns about the political turmoil in the country. The election was held on February 2 and confirmed that the current government remains in power. The news resulted in a rally, which was not as short-lived as some experts have thought. Still, the opposition is attempting to annul the voting result and the political […]

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February 7
2014

Chilean Peso Falls as Inflation Retreats from Record Level

Chile’s inflation fell even as the nation’s currency was weakening, and this led to speculations that the central bank will reduce interest rates. Such talks weakened the Chilean peso even more. Inflation fell to 2.8 percent in January from 3 percent in the previous month. The December’s level was highest in 19 months. The Central Bank of Chile already eased monetary policy in October and November and may do so again. Such […]

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February 7
2014

EUR/USD Ends Week with Gains

EUR/USD ended this week with gains as US nonfarm payrolls disappointed yet again. The employment growth in January was not as small as in the previous month, but it was nowhere near the forecast level. The nonofficial data released earlier this week was also worse than expected. Nonfarm payrolls grew by 113k in January, missing the analysts’ estimate of 185k by a great margin. The increase was still bigger than the meager […]

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