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Central Banks as Currency Traders, 2011 Edition

With insane levels of turmoil hitting news wires and volatility striking left and right, it seems so easy to forget just how deep the cause for the currency markets have really been these days. Along
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Non-Farm Primer – The ADP Implication and Technical Misconceptions

Following the release of ADP on Wednesday I was groaning on Twitter about this lack of reliability in terms of this report, and how it is really no better than just a consensus estimate. ADP
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The Need to Know – Bloodbath Edition

Not, exactly, a quiet day yesterday.  World equity markets collapsed on a culmination of poor data all across the board. The tally: S&P500: -2.28% DJIA: -2.22% FTSE: -1.02% DAX: -1.05% …and as of this writing:
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Had you listened….

….to the bulk of FX analysis on the planet yesterday you probably would have been fiercely buying into EUR/JPY or USD/JPY following the uptick higher leading into yesterday's London session. Consistency seemed to remain across
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USD/JPY Frenzy – Technicals On Today's Massive Move

USD/JPY: Falling to sharp record lows on a frightening lack of liquidity / harsh selling.  This morning, a sharp retracement bringing the pair back up to fill in the liquidity gap which started at 79.76,
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Japan and the US: Two Peas In A Pod?

While we go ahead and make the utterly scary similarities between the US and Japan, the playing field does indeed remain wide open given recent means of monetary policy….but it doesn't change the situation. Since
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2010 Performance and Aggregate Data

Below you'll find a list of data used to summarize the overall latest picture of where we will end the year in terms of rates and current status of last month/Q3 data for all others.
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Morgan Stanley Annual FX Review and Forecast

While the focus as usual tends to be on employment growth (which alone we question in the U.S. on a number of fronts, particularly in production and manufacturing) and increased spending/forecast GDP, a question lingering
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EURUSD Pennant Pattern Forex

NBT Quantitatively Eases Back Into Motion

Please don't get too excited by the title — we haven't decided to print money to give to our readers (though would not be a bad incentive….we'll let the U.S. Fed be our test dummies,
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