Comments from RBNZ Governor Bollard this afternoon triggered a sharp sell-off in the New Zealand dollar. After having already cut interest rates by 525bp, he is telling us that the New Zealand economy could still weaken and because of that, he is not happy with the rise in long term yields. So this [...]

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The job of turning around the global economy lies of the shoulders of just a few people and in this group includes central bank governors. With such a tall task at hand, it leads me to wonder what are the people with such power and responsibility making. Is it enough to compensate for [...]

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I am really bullish AUD/NZD and believe that this may be a good opportunity to scale into a long position. The currency pair has been rallying for 7 days straight and is finally retracing. It is in the buy zone, which I determine using Bollinger Bands. Fundamentally, the RBA left interest [...]

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Last night, I was on Sky News Australia talking about a variety of things ranging from the Federal Reserve’s policy action, China, the US dollar, the Euro, the Australian and New Zealand dollars.
Here’s the interview:

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I also talked to Chip Hanlon of Greenfaucet.com about my [...]

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2008 has been a crazy year in the foreign exchange markets and hopefully 2009 will bring more steady times for the global economy as a whole. The tremendous amount of fiscal and monetary stimulus that central banks around the world have doled out should begin to have their effect in the second half of [...]

Posted in 2009 currency forecasts, 2009 eurusd forecasts, 2009 forex forecasts, 2009 gbpusd forecast, Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Currency forecasts, Japanese Yen, New Zealand dollar, Swiss Franc, euro, forex blog 3 Comments »