by Ryan Littlestone | November 9th, 2021, 11:54:23 | Technical Analysis
Market expectations for where USDJPY might go to are growing Reading a lot of analysis on USDJPY and 112.50 and 112.00 are in a lot of trader’s crosshairs, perhaps uncomfortably so. The central bank expectation reset goes on and now we need to see how things...
by Ryan Littlestone | November 3rd, 2021, 10:57:38 | Central Banks, Fed, FOMC
Some final thoughts for today’s FOMC As you might expect, our chatrooms this past week has been full of central bank talk and who might do what and when, and now attention has turned to the Fed. I’ll start by repeating that I don’t think the taper is...
by Ryan Littlestone | November 2nd, 2021, 09:16:19 | Central Banks, RBA, Technical Analysis
The cracks have appeared in the RBA’s stance Half of me is surprised that AUD hasn’t reacted better to that, the other half isn’t after seeing the FX reaction to the BOC and ECB, so think we’re not really trading (these) CB’s properly...
by Ryan Littlestone | October 27th, 2021, 11:13:11 | Central Banks, News
Today’s BOC meeting may have far greater consequences than just what affects Canada Obviously not dismissing the trading impact of the BOC on CAD, or Canada in general but that may not be the big news. There’s many folks thinking that the BOC will try and...
by Ryan Littlestone | October 18th, 2021, 11:10:13 | News
Markets are getting all bullish over rate hikes As I write this, the market is pricing in a 15bp hike at the Nov BOE MPC meeting, and see rates at 1.00% by Aug 2022. The ECB is pricing a 10bp hike by Sep 2022, up from Dec and as for the Fed, we’re looking at...