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The Forthcoming RBA`s Interest Rate Decision

If one would be asked to single out the most important endogenous event that might define currency exchange rates for month to come one would answer unequivocally – interest rate decision by the central bank. The forthcoming rate decision by Reserve Bank of Australia is not an exclusion, even when the majority of market participants do not anticipate any changes to the current level of interest rates.
What has left to be dissected by market observers is the rhetoric, emanating from RBA`s offici…
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Stix 2 Sep.

Best wishes, Speculo_ergo_sum ! :)

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One thing that I know is that I won't be near the market.

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neither was I:)

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UK GDP and Interest Rate Expectations

This coming Friday the 2nd estimate of GDP in Great Britain will be released. The first round of preliminary data released in July had limited impact – GBP went up about 20 pts against USD over 3 minutes, just to lose all the gains within less than half-hour, albeit losses were quite modest. Lack of positive influence on exchange rate of GBP from quite good GDP numbers would be flabbergasting if interest rate expectations were not taken into account.
The main reason for such a lackluster dynami…
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Polinka 1 Oct.

Good luck!

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The forthcoming BoE interest rate decision – failure of rhetoric

Every month financial markets anxiously await the most important price – the price of borrowing funds – to be set by central bankers. The day of announcement and previous days of the week might have little to no volatility, for the market players are uncertain of the future decision.
This is apparently not the case for BoE rate decision that is due this Thursday – FTSE 100 closed down 0.69% and was down about 1% intraday, that is unusually high volatility nowadays, albeit trading sessions on Mo…
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Nice trading. Check out my Blog about the JPY kicking butt! Thanks!

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