European Central Bank (ECB)

The start of trading in Europe this year was marred by traders coming home from the holidays to a report of record inflation in Spain. This contributed to many analysts reevaluating the outlook for ECB policy in the coming months. Of…
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EURUSD consolidates over high inflation expectations The euro treads water near an 18-month low as inflationary pressures build up. The ECB has pledged to maintain its monetary policy support, arguing that inflation will drop below…
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AUDUSD bounces higher The US dollar softened over profit-taking after the Fed sped up tapering as expected. The pair has found support over the psychological level of 0.7000. A break above the supply zone at 0.7170 is a show of…
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Over the course of the next 48 hours, more than 14 world central banks that are regularly tracked by the market will have monetary policy meetings. As you might expect, that could occasion a lot of added volatility across a significant…
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Conventional wisdom so far is that as the pandemic puts pressure on the economy, central banks would keep up the stimulus. The immediate market response in the wake of the omicron variant discovery was to react in accordance with that…
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EURUSD slides as Europe battles fifth wave The euro plunges as the pandemic situation worsens across the continent. A record rise in covid cases has prompted Austria and Germany to consider imposing another round of lockdowns, with…
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EURUSD weakens as ECB remains dovish The US dollar continues to rally on growing policy divergence between the ECB and the Fed. As Europe faces a new spike in covid cases, ECB President Christine Lagarde insisted that tightening now…
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It's no secret that higher inflation around the world is perhaps the single largest driver of fiscal policy and currency market moves. But that's not the case for all economies; meaning that there are disparate market reactions to the…
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Up until recently, employment data was one of the key drivers of expectations around fiscal policy. Even though that's not so much the case anymore, jobs numbers are still a major influence on the markets, particularly going into the end of…
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