ECB, IMF in talks over EUR 300 billion Spanish rescue plan
The European Central Bank is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund on a Spanish rescue pa...
Japan goes on intervention watch after Fed’s QE3
The foreign-exchange market was on the lookout Friday for possible Japanese intervention to suppress...
FED MBS Purchase Statement Sep 13 2012
The FOMC directed the Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to...
RBA September Quarterly Bulletin
RBA has published its quarterly bulletin which gives us a few insights on the methodology they use f...
Markets Doubt More Fed Easing Will Boost Hiring: Survey
CNBC has done a survey on the likelihood of QE. Some key takeaways: A full 90 percent of the 58 ...
Fed Move Unusual When Stocks Are Hitting Multi-Year Highs
The title used in this CNBC article can be misleading. There is nothing really "unusual" about Fed m...
Barroso EU Should Evolve into Federation of Nation Sates
EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called for the EU to evolve into a "federation of na...
German ESM Ruling: Reaction
Now that German courts have given the greenlight the ESM, we shall take a look at how the market has...
Expectations ramp up for QE3 — but maybe not now
Fed watchers have little doubt the central bank is getting ready to launch what’s commonly ca...
Europe’s Smaller Banks Are ‘Real’ Problem: EU’s Barnier
It is strange that Barnier named smaller banks when they are the ones that are hardest hit by the cr...
Sheila Blair Urges Congress to Act not the Fed
Additional easing from the Federal Reserve won’t result in more bank lending, Sheila Bair, th...
ECB German Official Defends Bond Buying Plan
The European Central Bank will only buy a euro zone country's sovereign bonds if it commits to "hard...
Swiss Central Bank Intervened Less due to ECB
The Swiss National Bank's foreign exchange reserves hit 71 percent of annual output in August, with ...
Bank of Japan Governor Committed to Stability
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said Thursday the central bank is committed to ensuring the...
Eurogroup’s Juncker to attend ECB meeting on Thurs
Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the euro zone's 17 finance ministers, will attend Thursday's cr...
Draghi to deliver bond plan at crunch ECB meeting
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi faces the most decisive moment of his presidency on Thursda...
ECB will not limit Bond Buying in Latest Crisis Proposal
The impact of the details leaked made the Euro jump versus the USD and it still continues to trade n...
BoC on hold, maintains ‘hawkish’ bias
As expected, the Bank of Canada left the overnight rate unchanged at +1%, but maintained its 'hawkis...
RBA Rates Announcement: Reaction
AUD/USD rallied higher following a more hawkish RBA minutes in which Governor Stevens mentioned that...
Brazil rates at adequate levels
Brazil's economy is picking up steam as borrowing costs fall to adequate levels and a weaker currenc...