Forex Derivative 2.0 Review

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian and European stocks eased on Tuesday as caution over the global economy persuaded investors took profits on recent gains, while the euro fell after a newspaper report rekindled fears about the vulnerability of European banks. […]

LONDON (Reuters) - British bank Barclays has appointed Bob Diamond, the head of its investment and wealth management business Barclays Capital, as its new group chief executive to replace current head John Varley next year. […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Silicon Valley technology giant Oracle Corp has hired Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal, as president. […]

BANGALORE (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice department is looking into Google Inc's takeover of airline ticketing software firm ITA Software Inc, to determine whether the deal would exert too much influence on the online travel industry, the Wall Street Journal said. […]

BEIJING (Reuters) - China must resist external pressure for yuan appreciation because a stronger exchange rate would take a big bite out of economic growth, according to a pair of senior government researchers. […]

HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) - American International Group Inc is leaning toward a new sale of its Taiwan unit, according to one of the original buyers, opening the way for a number of Taiwanese banks who have expressed interest. […]

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, scrambling to spur job creation, proposed a six-year plan on Monday to rebuild infrastructure with an initial $50 billion investment and prepared new business tax cuts. […]

Central banks have great insights into their domestic economies as well as the global environment. Therefore, with a slew of monetary authorities meeting this week we could see medium expectations shaped by their comments. Commodity driven economies have led the recovery and signs of continues strength in Canada and Australia could feed into prevailing optim […]

A drop in forex market volatility expectations suggests that currency moves may slow in the week ahead, limiting optimism on volatility-friendly Breakout and Momentum strategies. Yet a continued slide in the safe-haven US Dollar shows few signs of slowing amidst a major improvement in financial market risk sentiment. We are left in a somewhat difficult posit […]

The Euro was directionless during the overnight trade against the U.S. dollar amid a light economic docket. Looking ahead, we may see a lackluster performance in the currency markets as many traders are offline in observance of the U.S. Labor Day holiday. […]

The US Dollar and Japanese Yendeclined as risk appetite carried over from Friday’s trade pushed shares higher in Asian hours, sapping demand for the safety-linked currencies. Stock index futures hint more of the same ahead. […]

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Will economic optimism from last week carry over into the coming holiday-shortened week? Regardless, the direction of markets will be extremely telling with regard to whether the latest move was merely an oversold bounce or the start of a new trend. […]