"The sale of treasury assets represents the 4th consecutive quarter of FX reserve depletion and JP Morgan estimates the total cumulative capital outflow at $520bn" - Steven Knight, Blackwell Global
Read more"One positive that the American government will draw from this is their continued aggressive foreign policy against Russia. A low oil price can affect their economy tremendously, but at what price to their own growing shale industry?" - Paul Orford, VP Business Development, TopFX
Read more"Te elephant in the room really appears to be a potential decision by the US Federal Reserve to normalise their interest rate regime. US Fed Chair, Janet Yellen, stated today that they do expect to lift rates sometime in 2015 but remain cautious over the timing" - Steven Knight, Blackwell Global
Read more"Investors are not convinced by the current situation and we have seen euro weaken across the board; overnight during the Asia session, EUR/USD was in free-fall from 1.13s to the 1.12s and further momentum, as the EU market opened, pushed the pair lower. EUR/USD now trades at 1.1160" - Zoe Fiddes, Head of Sales, ORE
Read more"The divergence between central bank policies is likely to drive the investing agenda around FX over the next five years. For investors that have been involved in the US market, quantitative easing effectively put stimulus into the market that allowed businesses to refinance at very low rates" - Sol Steinberg, Founding Principal, OTC Partners
Read more"When Greece warned on the 22nd of the month that it would be unable to meet its next debt payment at the end of May, the EURUSD pair tumbled even more, falling below 1.10 and remaining there through the end of the month" - Jameel Ahmad, Chief Market Analyst at ForexTime (FXTM)
Read moreAnticipating an imminent default by Greece, Blackwell Global Research Analyst Steven Knight states " Individuals and Companies dealing with the Greek state view it as a very real credit risk, as payment delays are now the norm"
Read more"Streaming live audio and video of key speeches and testimonies, alongside the accompanying reports and previews provide the end-user a far more comprehensive and complete first-hand view of what is making the markets tick" - Harry Daniels, CEO and Founder, LiveSquawk
Read moreLeverate's Trading Optimization Director Sami Mana reflects on the events of January 15 this year
Read morePaul Orford takes a look at the media coverage of the allegations against HSBC, in that Peter Oborne claimed that the Daily Telegraph's management had deliberately supressed stories in order to retain a valuable advertising account. Mr. Oborne outlined that one former Telegraph executive told him HSBC was “the advertiser you literally cannot afford to offend.”
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