The New Year has begun and it is important to see what the market is pricing in for central banks this year. As you may know, central bank rate hike expectations change often but as of last week, most central banks are expected to keep monetary policy unchanged in the coming year but one [...]

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The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee changes dramatically in 2012. Gone are Evans (the most dovish member of the FOMC), Fisher, Plosser and Kocherlakota (the Trio of hawks) and in comes Lacker, Pianalto, Lockhart and Williams. Three hawks and one dove will now be replaced with three doves and one hawk. We can [...]

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First I want to apologize for being MIA for the past few weeks. Didn’t realize wedding planning would be so tough! But - all is finally done and I am happy to say that I will be getting married on Dec 12th and will then be off for a nice long honeymoon. [...]

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I was on Bloomberg Television on Wed afternoon talking about Safe Haven Currencies

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I will be speaking at the Chicago World Money Show this weekend. If you are in town, please come say hi at my 2 presentations. Learn the 3Ms of Forex Trading on Thurs at 2:45pm and Battle Tested Forex Trading Strategies on Friday at 2:10pm
If you can’t attend, here is a link to [...]

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