After the FOMC announcement yesterday, I posted this comparison of the FOMC statement on FX360.com. I am posting it again in case you want to understand exactly what parts of the statement has been changed. EUR/USD did not follow through on its post FOMC rally is now trading below 1.30. That is [...]

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Trading the Fed meeting is always difficult because in addition to a decision on rates, the tone of the FOMC statement also affects how the dollar trades. Rather than immediately jumping into the market after the announcement, I have found that in 11 out of the last 14 times that the Federal Reserve has [...]

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Here is my dissection of the March 16 Fed Statement
FOMC Statement March 16, 2010
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the labor market is stabilizing ( upgraded “from deterioration in the labor market is abating”). Household spending is expanding at a [...]

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What is the difference between the Discount Rate and the Fed Funds Rate?
On Thursday February 18th, the Federal Reserve surprised the markets by raising the discount rate by 25bp to 0.75 percent, sending the U.S. dollar sharply higher against all of the major currencies. Although the Fed went out of their way to say [...]

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I was on CNBC Squawk Box Australia this evening talking about the implications of the Fed’s discount rate hike on the forex markets.

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