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Ahead of the ECB
by Ashraf Laidi | 07 Jun, 2018
EURUSD posts its biggest weekly gain in five months despite ongoing uncertainty in Italy and fresh declines in Italian bonds and equity indices.
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Euro Moves Far from Brutal
by Ashraf Laidi | Aug 17, 2017 21:18 | 10 Comments
Earlier today, euro suffered a minor bump on the release of the minutes from last month's ECB Governing Council policy meeting, which revealed growing concerns with a possible overshoot in...
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USD Damaged by Relative Growth & Inflation Change
by Ashraf Laidi | Jul 17, 2017 14:51 | 1 Comment
In January, most of the FX world jumped on the wave of a positive USD outlook based on the easily articulated but inaccurate theory of diverging monetary policies-- that the Fed will be the only...
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Protectionism won't Protect USD
by Ashraf Laidi | Jan 27, 2017 14:46 | 1 Comment
The notion that Trump's planned protectionist measures (tariffs and border adjustment tax) will be USD-positive is founded on an unrealistic world –where Mexico, China and other US...
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JPY Crosses & Equity Indices
by Ashraf Laidi | Aug 26, 2016 16:21 | 2 Comments
The divergence between yen crosses and US stock indices has persisted for 6 months, the longest and deepest divergence since 2002.
