Adrian Filip

If you want to place trades on FX this week, you must know what the CPI is. The CPI acronym stands for Consumer Price Index, and it is the most common used measure for inflation within a country or an economy, taking into consideration the…

Very often, traders and professional Forex investors simplify currency pair names by referring to them using nicknames. The most used jargon in FX is about the major currency pairs. This language is not only used in forums or social media…

On Thursday, the USD/JPY pair plunged around 300 pips due to the YEN bulls that moved in strong. This was happening as the BOJ (Bank of Japan) Governor Kuroda announced that the bank will maintain the current monetary policy rates. Behind…

During last week, the euro weakened against the dollar with 0.53%, sending the EUR/USD major at 1.1223 and also marking the second straight weekly decline this year. The economic activity went down unexpectedly in the month of April,…

Image via Tribes of the World / (L-R) Bahraini Minister of Finance and Minister in Charge of Oil and Gas Affairs Sheikh Ahmed Bin Mohammed al-Khalifa, Kuwaiti Minister of Oil Hani Abdulaziz Hussein and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali…

Image via World Economic Forum / Flickr On Monday, the USD/JPY pair lingered in the 107.80 area as BOJ (Bank of Japan) analysts and officials maintain their prior “no intervention” decision regarding the monetary policy. There is although…

On Monday, the USD/JPY pair followed its downward trend as the Federal Reserve minutes came out, hitting a low of 109.33 – the lowest level since October 2014. After the minutes, the pair managed to come back to 109.60/70, close to the…

We can see on Friday the USD strengthening abroad the markets, being boosted by the release of US employment data, manufacturing activity, and the consumers’ sentiment index. The USD/JPY pair lost 0.17% for the whole Friday session, but…

Image via Leo Newball, Jr. 'California Federal Reserve Bank' / Flickr The USD/CAD pair moved slightly on Friday, the European session setting the rate in the 1.3230 area. The main reason for this small fluctuation is that the Canadian…