IntelligentHQ Forex Week In Review In Association with OANDA Corporation

Report by Dean Popplewell

Dean Popplewell has a wealth of forex experience: professional currency trader for 10 years, fixed income trader for four years, and head of the global trading desks at various financial institutions in Canada. Dean is OANDA’s resident currency analyst and has been writingOANDA’s daily forex blog since January 2007 as a way to share some of his forex experience with the OANDA community.

July 29th to August 3rd

The message from Draghi and Ben seems to be rather similar, policy response is possible, but they have yet to convince “internal skeptics of the need for immediate action.” The ECB has sent a message indicating that it “may” conduct open market operations to support the front end of the peripheral debt markets, but probably only in the context of the EFSF/ESM aid requests.
EUROPE Week in FX

Non-Farm Payroll No Game Changer

The Fed declined to deliver policy easing this week, disappointing many whose expectations had been building for something over the past few weeks. Policy makers can probably see in Friday’s NFP print some vindication for their caution. Overall, yesterday’s report is not a “true game changer.” Despite a stronger headline, analysts flag the small uptick in the unemployment rate
AMERICAS Week in FX

Chinese authorities are beginning to worry

The PBoC will be making stabilizing economic growth a bigger priority. The authorities are obviously concerned over the slowdown of the world’s second largest economy. In their Q2 monetary policy report this week, policy makers repeated their “regular” three objectives of maintaining steady and relatively fast growth, adjusting economic structure and managing inflation expectations.
ASIA Week in FX

WEEK AHEAD