QE

ECB President Draghi is once again the king of curveballs. After delivering what was arguably a dovish statement early on in his press conference, and […]

Mario Draghi spent most of the press conference trying to convince the audience that tapering doesn’t actually exist, and even if it did it wasn’t […]

So, the Bank of England day finally arrives and the rate decision is due in less than half an hour, but will it be a […]

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After massively disappointing traders’ high hopes back in December, “Super” Mario Draghi and company were not going to make the same mistake again. Expectant traders […]

The normally tranquil Friday Asian session of trade was rudely interrupted this week by a surprise decision from the Bank of Japan. The excitement started […]

Any time markets are volatile, traders look to perceived “leaders” to tell them everything is going to be alright (see the popularity of CNBC’s recent […]

For those intrepid traders still tracking the markets on Christmas Eve, today’s breakdown in USD/JPY could be a big development with repercussions that stretch into […]

Yesterday, we asked whether Saint Draghi would bring a shiny new present or a lump of coal to expectant EUR/USD bears. Today we learned that […]

So, the ECB day finally arrives and as usual, the European stock and bond markets are finding good support, causing yields and the euro to […]

‘Twas the night before Draghi, when all through the market Not a trader was trading; they were waiting for their targets The trading plans were […]

In what’s become a 21st century tradition, workers across the United States and elsewhere are shuffling to their desks with only one thing in mind […]

It might be a data-void session and investors in the US are away for Thanksgiving holiday, but European stocks are again in a rally mode, […]

As my colleague Fawad Razaqzada noted earlier today, traders were waiting with bated breath for the Bank of England’s “Super Thursday” festivities to kick off […]

In one the least surprising moves of the month, the European Central Bank refrained from making any changes to monetary policy in today’s meeting. The […]

As we noted earlier this morning, traders are hyper-focused on tomorrow’s ECB meeting as the most market-moving fundamental event this week, though there’s certainly a […]

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The release of this morning’s European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy statement was predictably uneventful, with the central bank leaving its main refinancing rate at […]