Posts Tagged "ecb"

Happy New Year

Posted by on Dec 31, 2012 in Commentary, Featured, Market News

Happy New Year

As a trader taking a backwards look at 2012, I can only conclude that it has been a strange kind of year. In the UK, the stock market is already closed for 2012. Anyone who has read some of my previous posts will guess how I am going to summarise 2012 though. A year when much changed and little was achieved. After three years of crisis, Greece and the problems of the Euro are firmly on the back burner as the world watches the USA head ever closer to the so called fiscal cliff. Does that mean the problems of the Eurozone are over? Have they been miraculously fixed? The only judgement call I...

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ECB impact on GBPUSD

Posted by on Jul 27, 2012 in Commentary, Featured, Market News

ECB impact on GBPUSD

ECB Impact on GBPUSD On 20 June, I wrote about central bank power and the impact the ECB can have on the currency value. This was in evidence again this week on Thursday, when Mario Draghi, the head of the ECB, stated they would do “whatever it takes” to save the Euro. I have chosen to illustrate the impact of his speech on GBPUSD, rather than the Euro. The 4 hour candle on EURUSD was 199 pips in range. The candle length for Cable was  232 pips. In either case, very significant movements. One of the “excuses” for weak GDP figures in the UK has been the turmoil in...

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