Meltdown 101: What would be better for the economy right now -- a stronger or weaker dollar? 
Would the U.S. economy be better off if the mighty dollar weren't so mighty?
The dollar has strengthened against most other major currencies for much of the second half of the year. It recently reversed course, but the big picture remains the same: The Thomson Reuters U.S. dollar index, which measures the dollar's value relative to the euro and the Japanese, Canadian, British, Swedish and Swiss currencies, is still up more than 10 percent from its lows in March.
All the while, the economy has been wallowing in a deepening recession.
Does the strong dollar have anything to do with the nation's economic woes? What would be better for the economy right now -- a stronger dollar or a weaker one?
Here are some questions and answers about the strength of the dollar:
Q: Should we be rooting for a stronger or weaker dollar right now?
A: In a broad sense, a weak dollar is probably favorable while the economy is ailing, since it would make U.S. goods cheaper to consumers outside the country.
"The dollar is really a shock absorber," says Brian Bethune, economist at IHS Global Insight. "When domestic economic conditions are weak, it goes down to stimulate demand for U.S. product overseas."
Q: So why have we seen such dollar strength in recent months?
A: The dollar, which had already been on a multiyear losing streak, began to weaken further in late 2007 and early 2008 as it became clear the U.S. was heading into a recession. But as the global economic outlook soured, investors flocked to the safest assets around: U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds. (In other words: investments in U.S. government debt.)
Because Treasury investments are denominated in dollars, this trend pushed up demand for greenbacks -- and more demand translates into a stronger dollar.
Q: How has that hurt the U.S.?
A: The stronger dollar has come at a bad time. It made U.S. goods more expensive overseas as the economies of many major U.S. trading partners are mired in recession. That has weakened the demand for U.S. goods, which has caused exports -- a rare bright spot in the U.S. economy earlier this year -- to fall hard.
The drop in exports could lead to more job losses, at a time when employment is already declining at the fastest pace in decades.
Q: But doesn't a strong dollar help by making imports cheaper?
A: Yes, and we've seen import prices fall hard, too. Especially for one of the country's favorite imports: oil.
Some economists think declining imports will outpace what we're losing in exports, narrowing the trade deficit. That could add to gross domestic product -- the broadest measure of the nation's economic health -- and help the economy.
But in October -- the latest month for which data are available -- exports fell at a greater rate than imports, and dollar strength was one reason why. The trade gap widened to near record levels.
Q: What about the impact on U.S. businesses?
A: It depends on how much of a company's revenue comes from outside the U.S.
For a multinational company like Nike, for instance, their goods become more expensive overseas as the dollar strengthens, which could give their competitors an advantage. For companies that sell most or all of their products in the U.S., such as Family Dollar, a stronger dollar is good for the bottom line, because there's more buying power in each dollar the company earns.
Many companies have been lowering their profit outlooks due to the dollar's second-half strength, as the same amount of sales overseas translate to fewer dollars than in previous quarters.
Q: What are the positives of a stronger dollar?
A: The risks of inflation subside, and that's normally a good thing. Right now though, inflation is less of a worry than weak growth.
Still, there's a bright side: Low expectations for inflation have made it easier for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to help spur the U.S. economy -- a move that usually carries serious inflation risks.
Q: What's better for the U.S. consumer?
A: There are several ways a stronger dollar can benefit regular folks.
First, the foreign goods we buy -- like cars or handbags -- become less expensive. Those who invest abroad, even through mutual funds, can get better values on assets. It also makes it cheaper for Americans to travel abroad, and it can also boost consumer confidence, if workers feel their paychecks are stretching further.
Of course, all those benefits become moot if you lose your job because your multinational employer -- struggling to compete overseas because of a strong dollar -- has to resort to layoffs.
Q: There have been recent stretches when the dollar turned the other way and weakened. Why did this happen?
A: The Fed has cut its target interest rate to close to zero and it's vowed to take further steps to keep rates low. That sends a signal to investors that the U.S. economy remains in dire straits, and it gives investors less of an incentive to hold interest-bearing investments denominated in dollars. Reduced demand for such investments can push the value of the dollar downward.
Key short-term interest rates in the U.S. are among the lowest in the world's industrial nations -- on par with Japan, which has fought for years to keep its rate low.
Q: What should we expect in the near future?
A: There are many variables that make predicting currency strength a near-impossible task, but some analysts and traders suggest the stage is set for a return to weakness against other major currencies, especially if other industrialized nations are less aggressive in cutting interest rates. Also, if the Fed continues to pump dollars into the economy, as it's promised to do, the increased supply of the currency could push the value of the dollar further downward.
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Meltdown 101: Is a Strong or Weak Dollar Better?
Forex Sentiment Accurately Forecasted Massive Swiss Franc Rally
USD/CHF Ratio: 1.10
Trading Forecast: Bearish
USDCHF – The ratio of long to short positions in the USDCHF stands at 1.10 as nearly 52% of traders are long. Yesterday, the ratio was at 1.10 as 52% of open positions were long. In detail, long positions are 41.9% higher than yesterday and 16.7% stronger since last week. Short positions are 40.9% higher than yesterday and 54.6% weaker since last week.
Open interest is 41.4% stronger than yesterday and 48.0% below its monthly average. The SSI is a contrarian indicator and signals more USDCHF losses.
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EUR/CAD Day Trend
You will generally see the trend begin to flatten out and begin to trade within a defined and repeated level of support and resistance. We would like to see this on a Daily and/or 4 hour chart...a range on "minute charts" is not established enough to trade without a greater element of risk.
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NASA Selects SpaceXs Falcon 9 Booster and Dragon Spacecraft for Cargo Resupply Services to the International Space Station
F9/Dragon Will Replace the Cargo Transport Function of the Space Shuttle after 2010
-NASA today announced its selection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS) Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) contract award. The contract is for a guaranteed minimum of 20,000 kg to be carried to the International Space Station (ISS). The firm contracted value is $1.6 billion and NASA may elect to order additional missions for a cumulative total contract value of up to $3.1 billion.
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Dollar Rises Amid Economic jitters
The U.S. dollar gained strength against major currencies Thursday as economic worries about the state of the global economy persisted and the number of U.S. workers filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell more than expected.
The yen retreated from the 13-year high it reached against the dollar Wednesday ahead of an interest rate decision from the Bank of Japan. The Japanese currency fell against the dollar Thursday, increasing to ¥89.43 from ¥87.23 late Wednesday.
At 0.3%, Japan has the second-lowest rate among the world's major economies and investors were taking a step back ahead of Friday's announcement.
The 15-nation euro fell nearly two cents to $1.4243 from $1.4418.
The European Central Bank's next meeting is set for January, and investors are watching to see whether the bank will keep its rate firm after slashing it to 2.5% earlier this month.
The British pound dropped more than five cents to $1.5011 Thursday from $1.5534.
Currently, the Bank of England's rate remains at 2%, the lowest in the bank's history, and policymakers are slated to meet in January to discuss the rate.
Economy
The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, according to a government report released Thursday. Initial filings for state jobless benefits fell to 554,000 for the week ended Dec. 13.
Oil prices fell below $37 a barrel Thursday, reaching level not seen since June 2004. Investors continued to shrug off an upcoming OPEC production cut announced on Wednesday, after which oil closed at a 4 1/2 year low.
Concerns ahead
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve cut its federal funds rate from 1% to a range between 0% and 0.25%, the bank's 10th cut since September 2007.
While interest rate cuts are the U.S. central bank's main tool for boosting economic activity, many currency analysts worry about the long-term effects of lower interest rates on the dollar.
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Swiss Franc Technical Outlook
The USDCHF has broken below its support line drawn off of the July and September lows. Bigger picture, “although the rally from March low at .9634 is not the clearest 5 wave rally, the rally is in 5 waves and real life Elliott patterns are not always crystal clear, especially in their early stages.
I mention early stages because the USDCHF rally from .9634 could be the first bull leg in a longer term uptrend. Even so, weakness would likely persist for the next several months in a path somewhat like the path I have mapped out.”
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Lockheed Martin Gets $89.5 Million Army Contract
Lockheed Martin awarded $89.5 million Army helicopter contract 
he Army said Monday that it has awarded an $89.5 million contract to a division of Lockheed Martin Corp. for work on helicopters.
The contract, awarded Friday, is for repairs and maintenance of sensors and other equipment on board the Apache helicopter.
Shares of Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed fell $1.94, or 2.5 percent, to $75.86 in Monday's regular session. After hours, the stock fell another 23 cents to $75.63.
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Fed Cuts to Mark Pre-Xmas Trading
Investors head into what for many will be the last full trading week of the year expecting more stimulative U.S. interest rate cuts but rattled by emerging dissent over how governments should boost ailing economies.
The price of oil, meanwhile, is likely to be in particular focus with oil-producing nations meeting to discuss supply cuts at a time when lower prices are one of the few areas of easing pressure on monetary authorities.
Investors needed no new stress after a year which has seen the global banking model break down, the value of stocks halve, lending freeze up and volatility soar, but the new wrinkle is squabbling among authorities about how to proceed.
"The problem is that when you have politics involved ... you get a lot of back and forth. It's not like when you watch economic data," said Michala Marcussen, strategy director at Societe Generale Asset Management.
Failure by U.S. lawmakers last week to agree a bail out for America's top automakers was a shock to the system for investors who have become used to governments and central banks pledging to do what it takes to build confidence and flood the global economy with money.
There was a similar U.S. Congress impasse over a financial bailout package earlier in the year, which ended in a compromise. But the latest fight means there will be no automaker bailout passed this year.
To that can be added a growing row in Europe over how far governments should go to pump up deteriorating economies. In unusually undiplomatic terms, German officials have been slating others, primarily Britain, for going into debt with rescue plans.
For investors -- who hate uncertainty -- it all suggests more volatility ahead just as some confidence was coming back to markets. State Street's latest investment flow data, for example, showed a tentative growth in risk appetite.
RUNNING OUT OF ROOM?
One area from where help is almost certain to come, however, is the Federal Reserve, which meets on Tuesday. The U.S. central bank is widely expected to slash interest rates by as much as 75 basis points to just 0.25 percent.
Since the financial crisis escalated in September 2007, the Fed has cut rates from 5.25 percent to the current 1.0 percent in order to pump money into both the U.S. banking system and the now recessionary economy.
There is a debate among investors, however, about whether it is working, given the continued deterioration of the economy and the volatility of financial markets.
Former Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin said last week that such talk was wrong and asked just how bad things would have been if the Fed had not acted as aggressively as it has.
But the issue is also arising -- and not just in the United States -- of what happens when rates are so low that they cannot be cut anymore.
Quantitative easing, which essentially entails pumping money into the system by boosting money supply, is likely.
One impact of this for investors could be on government bonds, which central banks might buy to keep yields low.
But whatever the impact, investors are ending the year in a new environment.
"The unprecedented nature of the crisis has caught out forecasters and policymakers alike," ING said in a note. "Led by the U.S., past monetary and fiscal norms are being abandoned in desperate attempts to curtail recession and deflation."
OIL AND BANKS AGAIN
Investor attention this week will also be on foreign exchange and energy markets.
In the case of the former, volatility jumped at the end of last week after the U.S. automaker bailout failed, with the dollar weakening sharply after five weeks of gains against major currencies (^DXY - News).
Focus will be on whether the latest weakness is a short-lived reaction or whether the currency's recent burst of strength is now over. The soaring yen may also begin to concern Japanese authorities.
The price of oil, too, will be in focus with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting on Wednesday in Oran, Algeria.
Crude has fallen close to 70 percent since peaking in mid-July as a weaker global economy has smothered demand. This has removed inflation as a worry for general investors and allowed central banks to cut rates.
But OPEC is expected to agree a large cut in supply at the Oran meeting. The cartel's president has called for a more "severe" reduction than the 2 million barrels a day already agreed.
And then there are the banks. Goldman reports on Tuesday and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday. Both are expected to announce quarterly losses, but the reports will be studied for signs of further credit-related woes or signs of improvement.
Goldman has announced at least 4,800 jobs cuts globally as it weathers the financial storm, while Morgan Stanley has announced at least 6,800.
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Forex brokers competitive can either be individuals or agencies who will do their best to help you profit from the market and cover the risk of the investment that you made. You Forex trading will largely depend upon your broker as he or she will help you to succeed in the Forex market.
The forex broker competitive does several things: helps you to manage your accounts, executes your orders and keeps you informed of market trends. You will need to take a look at the forex broker competitive rating before you decide to choose a broker.
If you have Internet access, then you will find many website that suggest forex broker competition. Some of the important things to know is what the minimum amount is to open an account, will there be any commission charges, etc.
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When considering a forex broker competition, find out just how fast it takes him to execute an order. You should also find out how much slippage you can expect.
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Forex brokers competition are valuable to those that wish to enter into a forex currency trading.
With the advent of online businesses assisted by the technology of the Internet, online forex brokers competition are popping up like plants in the World Wide Web because of the ease and inexpensive ways of establishing a corporate appearance. If you are a novice forex trader, you need a very good broker at your side. However, with so many of them to choose from, what should you look for in a broker?
First,forex brokers should offer competitive spreads, or the difference between the selling and buying prices of a certain currency. Good forex brokers competition offer anywhere between 3 and 5 pips, the ideal spreads that can make sure you are gaining from your investment. Avoid as much as possible those forex brokers competition that offer variable spreads, as you may find a spread that suddenly widens during a busy market, which is where you would gain money, but only if the market is bullish.
Another good indication of a reliable broker is one who uses a secure online connection to take payments and funding for your forex currency account. This ensures smooth trading, because you don’t have to make time-consuming e-commerce transactions just to get money into your account, and another transaction to transfer profits to your bank account. Remember, you don’t only trade, but you also have to look at forex brokers competition data in order to make decisions. You don’t have the time to make time-consuming transactions in between.
Next, as a way to maximize your potential profits when engaging in the trade, you need to have a forex broker competition that will grant a leverage of about 200:1. This is the ideal leverage that forex brokers competitive should have; however, there are some that offer higher leverages. These leverages even reach 400:1 as a maximum, offering your higher potential profits from your forex currency trade.
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In this post, we hope to share with you the many aspects that this important subject has to offer you.
There are oodles of regulated Forex brokers competition online these days and it is hard to pick the best from all these trading platforms. The most important criteria you want to know when choosing these trading platforms are the forex broker competitive spreads. The more forex broker competitive spread these platforms have the better. A spread is the difference between ask and bid value. The lesser the difference, the spread is said to be more competitive. Competitive spread commonly ranged around 3 to 5 pips.
The next most important criteria you need to know is the transparency of the regulated FOREX brokers competitive platform. Sometimes they might charge you more than they tell you and you might not even know it. They are not there to cheat you. Sometimes there are just errors and I'm sure you don't want to pay more just because of all these errors.
If you're a beginner at trading FOREX, look for regulated FOREX brokers competition that give away EBook at no cost that teaches you conduct to trade FOREX. Don't look for a trading method that only teaches you how to use their software. Make sure this EBook shows you everything you need to know to begin trading FOREX. Also make sure that it provides a professional sense of the most standard techniques implemented now by FOREX traders. Other than that it should include effective and important background plus precise methods, trading tips and so on.
Don't use a regulated FOREX brokers competition platform that has complicated software. You will not want to spend few hours of your time just to master how to use the software. Some software is simple to use and the functions are as effective as the complicated ones. Select the right regulated FOREX brokers or you'll lose both your time and money substantially.
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The Internet and Growing Competition | ForexGen
The purpose of this post is to introduce the forex market to you. As with many markets there are many derivative of the central market such as futures, options and forwards. In this book we will only be discussing the main market sometime referred to as the Spot or Cash market. The word FOREX is derived from the words Foreign Exchange and is the largest financial market in the world. Unlike many markets the FX market is open 24 hours per day and has an estimated $1.2 Trillion in turnover every day. This tremendous turnover is more than the combined turnover of the main worlds' stock markets on any given day. This tends to lead to a very liquid market and thus a desirable market to trade.
Unlike many other securities (any financial instrument that can be traded) the FX market does not have a fixed exchange. It is primarily traded through banks, brokers, dealers, financial institutions and private individuals. Trades are executed through phone and increasingly through the Internet. It is only in the last few years that the smaller investor has been able to gain access to this market. Previously the large amounts of deposits required precluded the smaller investors. With the advent of the Internet and growing competition it is now easily within the reach of most investors.
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Who Prompts Forex Quotation to Traders
The delusion conceptually propounds that traders operate at a spontaneous FOREX market (as stipulated by B. Williams, A. Elder, E. Nayman, etc.). But it is not the case. Traders do their job inside a well-organized and controlled currency exchange market, governed by the Consortium of the world’s largest banks.
Hence, who is pushing the currencies up and down, who defines trends, corrective actions and flats?
And, who, ultimately, places a trend at a point, where the majority of traders are happy to think they have saddled the wave and are about to win an enormous profit! Now! Not to be scared! Not to close the position! Not to be satisfied with a minor profit! Later on we will discuss that sort of stupidity. Thus, one persists to continue long in spite of more and more degrading profit. Shortly, the loss starts growing with light velocity! Are you familiar with the situation?
Well, who has reversed the rate? And who generally tugs currency rates?
Tugging is surely centralized. Compare on-line quotes of several Dealers or banks to find out that they are per second coincident. Do each bank’s traders act in such synchronism, that even not seeing each other, they place identical orders so that quotation is in 100% agreement? NOTHING IS A MIRACLE HERE!
But prior to further explanation, we will listen to Bill Williams, the FOREX scholar (Trading Chaos, Ch. 6): “…let us trace a trend formation process. Earlier, the market and the market trading venue did constitute a single physical space. Majority of large grain traders were concentrated on the “floor”. Their orders involved amounts, sufficient to move the market; they enjoyed better control over the market than at present. During the latest 20 years markets have grown worldwide. Now, not only “Purina Ralstone”, “Kellog” and other prominent commercial associations seek hedging their cash assets transactions. So do millions of the world’s minor profiteers and farmers, competing with them in anticipation of perspective grain price fluctuations? This fact also implies strong potential for traders with nowadays, trends not being constructed on the floor. The latter mainly ensures the market liquidity by way of tackling “outer orders”.
The fact, that today’s trends are formed rather “outside the floor” than “on the floor”, as before, enables one to trace further market tendencies with trade volume being the key thereto. Our only on-line information is restricted to tick volume, time and price. Tick volume constitutes a number of price changes per a certain time period. It is not at all a number of traded contracts. Multiple researches revealed no significant difference between actual and tick volume. Using a tick volume, we may suppose, that it represents actual volume. It is a real-time volume, thus being our key to what’s going on in “trading pits”.
Two basic elements are organic to FOREX trading: brokers on the floor and remote traders. Local brokers constitute staff, executing orders, thus earning their salaries and/or commissions. They don’t possess money to be at their disposal. They are order executors. Their prospects are not burdened by prices, they getting for the orders management.
Remote traders use their own money. They have to pay the price out of their own pockets, unless they are getting a good one. Traders have to be much superior in skill to brokers since they independently take their own decisions, while the broker’s job is to follow the others’ orders.
Remote traders are supposed to support the market by way of taking its opposite side. As a rule, they are not at all crazy about any long-term transactions. Quite a few remote traders have been participants to our private training programs, and it is to be admitted that a 10-minute long transaction may seem quite a long-term one for some of them.
Think back to the fact that trends are built up of orders, delivered to the floor from outside, but not of long-term positions entered by remote traders. Since the traders’ job is to take the side opposite to the orders arriving from outside, they have no prospects of trading in between themselves. They follow your money. We are emphasizing again, that tick volume is our key to understanding what’s going on in the Forex Market. Remote traders do not contribute any significant volume to trading, which might result from dealing with similar traders on the floor. Trends emerge from incoming orders. That is why we are to be certain about when and in what amount the outer order is supplied to the floor. It is presented via a tick volume change”.
So, we, traders, turn out to be price locomotives, don’t we? And brokers on the floor just allocate and execute order, incoming from us, don’t they? And on April, 1, 2005 they all (meaning: we all) together decided to swivel the trend and to stay short against all the rules, news and common sense… I wonder if the scholar ashamed or not?
As regards the above quotation, I have chanced to hear a single argument in favor of Bill Williams (I guess you understood for what sake I’ve cited it in detail): it all pertains to the futures markets; we neither read nor use the above at Forex. Strange enough, these are the arguments of Williams’s advocates, but not of Williams himself.
This book is actually intended for both: futures markets and Forex Market. That’s why pictures taken from both the markets are so mixed up and the author never differentiates between the Technical Analysis methods thereof. Thus, either the author does not trace any difference between the two markets, or he is not eager to reveal it to the reader.
I have repeatedly come through this peculiarity of Williams (correct specific case method definition being extended to a wider coordinates scale) and it actually induced me to write this book. In all and all, the methods and advice, absolutely true and correct for a PART of Forex Market are claimed by Williams to be universal for the WHOLE of Forex Market without being demonstrated where the above is effective and where it isn’t.
The same is being done by Williams’s opponents and advocates, who visualize the portion of Forex where his methods are operable only. As different from analysts and Williams’s bibliographers, TRADERS require much stronger to realize a demarcation with pro-Williams trading to the one side thereof and with counter-Williams trading to the other one.
Logically there comes a question: what might be added to Williams’s indicators in order to turn them effective at the point where they are presently ineffective (see details in chapter on the Williams Alligator).
And now we are getting back to the issue of who supplies traders with FOREX rates quotation, bearing in mind that it’s us, traders, who exercise rates movement in accordance with Williams’s standpoint. Millions of traders have actually been studying FOREX by virtue of the “Trading House” and it is really worth studying. This is one of the most interesting and instructive editions whose repeated reading each time brings about something new and useful.
However, in some passages it smells being custom tailored. Is Williams ignorant of the fact that there is no single FOREX exchange and there’s no single trading venue or floor? And that Pacific, Asian, European and American session classification is arbitrary?
Did You see currency rates move, while there’s a day off in the USA with the banks closed? So did I. So, who has made up his mind in the USA to trade on the floor on a day off?
See there also: “Three greatest FOREX dealers - Citibank, J.P. Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, together with Reuters Group PLC) have started Atriax system in June, 2001.The latter terminated the operations in spring, 2002 after having failed to stand the competition.
Can you imagine a monster machine, capable of forcing three world’s largest banks - Citibank, J.P. Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank to abandon their business plans! Or capable of reversing the EURUSD from 1.3660 to 1.1865 and thus instantaneously executing orders of all the world’s traders, going and standing short! And thus within, April-June, 2005, buying the EUR from traders at USD1.36, 1.29, 1.20, 1.19, etc.
Do you see the loss? Watching the EUR slip 1700 pts after having bought it at 1.36… But, possibly, there is no loss at all?
All of Larina’s basic provisions have actually found confirmation 2 years later in the UK “Financial Times” article by Jennifer Hughes: “A PC occupying trading floor” (see it on Financial Times 2004).
It underlines that during the precedent 2 years the Consortiums turnover has grown by extra daily USD20 billion thus currently stretching to USD100 billion, whereas the most prominent internet-based trading platforms ensure the average of USD15-20 billion daily turnover.
And what is the way to reconcile the statement on shunt operation of EBS and Reuters Dealing facilities with the information that Citibank, J.P. Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank together with Reuters Group Plc have failed to stand the competition? Is it attributable to the fact that the Consortium has actually acquired Reuters, maintaining its formal sovereignty in order to support traders’ opinion that FOREX market is free and independent? If affirmative, then it’s fairly clear why the Consortium was not scared to buy the EUR on its dip from 1.36 to 1.1860, since there nothing to be afraid of with one’s knowledge of the point, below which one will not drop the rate as well as the point to stage the EUR rally to in several months with no one to interfere with Your so doing.
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