by Ryan Littlestone | September 13th, 2019, 12:01:33 | News, Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 12 September 2019 Not a day passes without the media and US President Trump pointing the finger at “currency wars” and “competitive devaluations”. The thrust of the argument is that central banks across the world,... 
by Ryan Littlestone | September 11th, 2019, 16:47:46 | Central Banks, ECB, News
Forex trading preview of the September 2019 ECB meeting Here we are at one of the most anticipated ECB meetings for a long while. Rate cut expectations stand at 100%, with a 10bp cut at 66.8% and a 20bp cut at 33.2%. Restarting QE expectations range from 30-50bn a... 
by Ryan Littlestone | July 25th, 2019, 12:15:13 | Options
Forex options expiring at the 10am (14.00 GMT) New York cut 25 July 2019 USDJPY might be glued to the 108 area once more with a couple of decent expiries. Not much around the current price in EURUSD over the ECB. 
by Ryan Littlestone | July 25th, 2019, 10:42:31 | Central Banks, News
It’s nearly time for the main event of the day, the ECB meeting,so here’s a quick guide to trading it it’s going to be very difficult to grab a trade unless we decipher the details very quickly. There’s going to be three stages. 1. Announcement... by Ryan Littlestone | July 11th, 2019, 17:18:59 | Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 10 July 2019 European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will step down at the end of his eight-year term on 31 October. Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF – which has implicitly called for looser global...