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Posts related to ‘FXF’

Currency Intervention’s Impact on the Price of Gold (GLD, IAU, FXF, ERO, DRR)

Posted: September 16, 2011 at 11:01 am

Currency traders really don't like governments to intervene in the global currency market. Such moves tilt the playing field in unexpected ways that can cause traders to unwind positions that ...
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Euro-Dollar Breakdown: The Calls For Parity Return, A Hit To GDP (UUP, FXE, EUO, FXF)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 12:47 pm

It was just under ten years ago that I was in Spain and Portugal for a vacation and a day of running with the bulls in Pampalona.  Unlike most trips ...
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Currency Intervention From Japan & Switzerland, Protecting the Dollar from the Dollar (YCL, FXY, JYF, FXF, FXE, UUP)

Posted: August 1, 2011 at 4:19 pm

The Japanese Yen took a breather today on some similar news that we saw last week regarding intervention.  The Nikkei News reported this afternoon that Japan was about to intervene ...
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A Bubble In Ultimate Safety Currency?… The Swiss Franc (FXF, EWL)

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 10:05 am

You have witnessed the carnage spreading in Europe of late, nothing new there. But what is new is the increasing extreme reading that has been building in "the ultimate safety ...
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D-Day ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 Today (FAS, FAZ, XHB, FXF, CYB, UUP, GLD, DGP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ)

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 11:59 am

The elections are over and the Republicans took over the House but not the Senate as expected.  Today is D-Day for Quantitative Easing or QE2... Decision Day.  Now it is ...
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Investing in Bubbles: ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 (GLD, DGP, FXF, CYB, CNY, UUP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: October 27, 2010 at 8:31 am

Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head.  What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind ...
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Dollar’s Rally Is Overdone

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 3:31 pm

This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate had dropped from 10.2% to 10% and that nonfarm payroll jobs declined by just 11,000.  The market rallied ...
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