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How Much FOMC Interest Rate Hike By Fed? The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee lifted the federal funds rate to the 3.0% to 3.25% range and reaffirmed a continuation of its balance sheet runoff. The Fed updated its language stating the “recent indicators point to modest growth in spending...

SNB could surprise (again) with a larger than expected hike The central bank entered ZIRP between 2011-2015 before switching to NIRP with a rate of -0.75%, where it remained until June this year. And with seemingly few paying attention, they not only hiked rates but came out swinging with a 50...

Reserve Bank of Australia raises rates again The Reserve Bank Board should slow the pace of rate increases once it reaches its assessment of neutral. That is particularly because of the treacherous lags that will have built up as the inevitable result of such a sharp rate increase in rates...

USD Index COT Data from the commitments of traders report US bond yields have continued to rise in an almost parabolic fashion, with 1 year note now just shy of 4%, and the 2-year at 3.8% with an increasingly inverted yield curve. And large speculators are not shy in capitalizing on these lower...

US Dollar Japanese Yen (USD JPY) Analysis | Xtreamforex The Japanese Yen is on a wild ride lately. But there were some surprise moves earlier, an explanation of these moves could give some explanation on whether or not the USDJPY has hit a ceiling. There are some important implications for the...

How does fx trading work? Trading forex involves the buying and selling of one currency at the same time. In forex, traders try to make a profit by buying and selling currencies by actively speculating on the direction of currencies in the future. Sometimes you may have heard from others that...

New Zealand Q2 GDP Beats Expectations New Zealand’s GDP rebound by 1.7% in the second quarter, close to the forecast and the RBNZ’s expectation. Services grew strongly as tourists started to return. New Zealand’s GDP rose bu 1.7% on the June Quarter, much in line with 1.6% forecast, as well as...

What will happen to GBP/USD if the UK surprises with higher CPI? US released its August CPI report. The headline was 8.3% YoY and expectation of 8.1% YoY and a July reading of 8.5% YoY. Headline inflation is decreasing. However, the Core CPI print for August was 6.3% YoY vs an expectation of...

Silver outshines gold as dollar slips | Xtreamforex The new week has started with a bang for risk-sensitive assets, including stocks and metals. Silver had risen around 5% so far on the day, and was leading other metals higher. Gold was also up, but not as impressively as silver, with the...

EUR/USD faces barricades around 0.9863, focus shifts to US Inflation data The past week was marked by two important events. The EUR/USD pair updated its 20-year low on Tuesday, September 6th once again, falling to 0.9863. And then the European Central Bank raised its key interest rate for the...

Unease Market on Inflation Expectations Second quarter GDP for Australia met the market’s expectation at 0.9%, 3.6%yr. As expected, household consumption drove growth in the quarter, consumption’s strong 2.2% gain in the 3 months to June coming as a result of the economy’s progressive...

USD/CNH – US Dollar Chinese Yuan Offshore News Another news from China which is not good. It is nation’s trade disappointing figures expectation. The yuan fell further, USD/CNH to almost 7.0000. The poor imports figure in particular raised concerns about how weak the Chinese economy has become...

Australia’s economy grew strongly earlier this year The national accounts released today showed the Australian economy in the second quarter expanded by a solid 0.9% and 3.6% YoY. It’s the third consecutive quarter of economic expansion for the Australian economy. First quarter of re-opened...

Liz Truss Defeats Rishi Sunak To Become New UK PM Liz Truss will become the new UK prime minister on Tuesday after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest today. The result was closer thank many people had expected, with Truss taking 57% of votes cast. The markets hardly reacted to...

Inflation rate of 8.8% expected in August 2022 The statistics released from 30th August turned out to be quite close to market expectations. The harmonized consumer price index in Germany, was 8.8% with the forecast of 8.8%. The consumer price index in the Eurozone amounted to 9.1% instead of...

What’s next for AUD/USD RBA board meeting will take place next week and an increase in Cash rate is expected, How much ? It’s a question. RBA discussion in June brought a hawkish element to the RBA’s monetary policy, noting that the current level of the cash rate is well below the estimated...

RBA to Raise the Cash Rate by 50 bps, AUD Reserve Bank meeting is on 6th September. It is expected that the cash rate will be raised by 50 basis points to 2.35%. The best approach will be to strengthen the statement we saw last month, not on a pre set path and following Chair Powell, at some...

Eurozone Consumer Price Index (CPI) YoY The ECB is expected to raise the interest rate on their next meeting on 7th Sep. The discussion is that if the rates will be increased by 50bps or 75bps ? ECB members have been preparing the markets for what could be a potential 75bps hike, despite the...

Second quarter GDP figures are expected to be strong recession signal Second quarter GDP figures are expected to be strong. Economy is expected to regain the positive momentum and expectations of analysists are of 4.5% compared to 3.1% registered in the first quarter of the year. The monthly...

How to earn money online? We are all experiencing the changes happening around us. Everything is happening online, when our economy is lagging behind, regular jobs are going to be reduced. The biggest question that arises here is - how to earn money in India? Since online earning is going to be...