Posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 11:06 am.
Meryvn talks, Sterling tumbles. The BoE cut its growth forecast from 1.2% to 0.8% citing the on-going debt crisis as the biggest threat to the recovery of the UK. Mervyn King said the Eurozone is “tearing itself apart without any obvious solution”. My elderly next door neighbour could have told us that. This isn’t the [...] Read More...
Posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 3:48 pm.
EUR/USD continues to plunge. My end of week forecast of being in the 1.27s has come around a little quicker than I thought. We’ve been as low as 1.2684 in early European trade this morning. The downtrend still remains however I expect a lot of resistance around the 1.2630/50 level (where we bounced last time [...] Read More...
Posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 1:23 pm.
EUR/USD has broken through the 1.30 barrier and hit the 1.2910 level in yesterday’s trading. In the overnight Asian session the pair was capped at 1.2968 and there’s been further downside pressure in early London trading. We’re currently quoting around the 1.2940 level. I see a further push lower with a break below 1.2910 opening [...] Read More...
Posted on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 3:14 pm.
Our dear old friend Greece is back in the headlines. The EUR has weakened for the seventh day in a row against the US Dollar and I see this bearish trend continuing. It’s hard to be anything but bearish on EUR. Greek politicians are struggling to form a new Government and the prospect of Greece [...] Read More...
Posted on Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 10:25 am.
Yesterday was a bit of a disappointment with the currency markets quite flat even though there was some key data released. The ECB kept interest rates on hold at 1% which meant there was no great fall in the Euro that may have come with a rumoured interest rate cut. There will be growing pressure [...] Read More...