Yellow Pages de forex

Ceux qui commercent sur le marché de devises étrangères (forex) se fondent sur les mêmes deux formes de base d'analyse qui sont employées au marché boursier : analyse fondamentale et analyse technique. Les utilisations de l'analyse technique dans les forex sont plus ou moins identiques : price is assumed to reflect all news, and the charts are the objects of analysis. But unlike companies, countries have no balance sheets, so how can fundamental analysis be conducted on a currency? Read more…

As unemployment soared in January, four states’ jobless rates climbed higher than 10%, according to federal data released Wednesday. In January, 49 states and the District of Columbia recorded month-over-month unemployment rate increases, the Labor Department reported. All 50 states and the District of Columbia had higher rates than the previous year. Read more…

LONDON (AP) — The pound slid to a six-week low against the dollar Monday after the British government’s weekend announcement that it will take a majority stake in Lloyds Banking Group PLC in return for insuring up to 260 billion pounds of assets at the ailing bank. By midday London time, the pound was down 1.8 percent at $1.3832, having earlier fallen to $1.3776, the lowest level since late January’s $1.3501 — itself the lowest level in nearly 24 years. Read more…

by KBC Market Research Desk
On Tuesday, the euro extended its rise against the dollar. The trend was already in place since early last week and in the absence of key economic data the move was extended. The ECB (Noyer) still being rather optimist on the European economy going into 2008 might have been slightly euro supportive and this also was the case for the positive market sentiment that reigned on the stock markets, at least in the early hours of trading. However, later in US trading the euro (and stocks) clearly lost momentum and EUR/USD closed the day at 1.4725, still a decent gain compared to the 1.4657 close on Monday. Read more…