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The ECB meeting is the session's highlight. In recognition of the risk that ECB President Draghi expresses displeasure with the premature tightening of financial conditions through the exchange rate channel is encouraged a modest bout of euro selling...

The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that women will be incorporated into new designs for the $5, $10 and $20 bills. Here is a look at the new lineup. Araminta Ross, known as “Minty,” was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland around 1822...

The shared currency recovers losses and returns to the positive territory versus the American dollar in the mid-Asian trades, with EUR/USD now striving hard extend gains above 1.1300. EUR/USD eyes on 5-DMA at 1.1314 Currently, EUR/USD trades modestly flat at 1...

Negative rates, currency wars, even helicopter money for god’s sake. HELICOPTER MONEY! If that’s not a central bank running past their limits, then I don’t know what is. Scary...

Euro zone finance ministers are ready to hold an extraordinary meeting next week if negotiations on the review of the Greek reform program are concluded, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, commenting that talks remained difficult...

After years of global easing made buying the dollar one of the world’s most popular trades, currency traders are latching on to any glimmer of economic brightness to try to uncover the next big theme. Even hints that central bank stimulus may be no longer required is enough to spark buying...

Remember at the start of the day the EURUSD was in a 38 pip trading range. That range has now been extended to an above average of 94 pips (the average is 82 pips) - and it might not be over. Looking at the daily chart, the EURUSD has a head and shoulders look to it...

Last weekends Elliott Wave weekly update spoke about the ongoing contracting wedge formation in cable, I had been expecting a further rise to the 14400 handle to complete three movements in wave ‘e’ of the triangle...

Sterling may lose one-quarter of its value if the U.K. votes to leave the European Union in its upcoming referendum, the head of a top London hedge fund told CNBC...

Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated, expects another market dip prior to the end of the first half of this year. He thinks a dip will range between 5% and 8% at some point over the next two months...

Binary options are a new and popular type of investment vehicle among traders mainly because of the simplicity. Similarly to vanilla options, binary options allow a trader to trade on the future price of an asset...

Banknotes are changing - with the look and feel of the cash in our pockets going through significant changes in the coming years. The Bank of England's first plastic banknote will enter circulation in September, when the new £5 note featuring Sir Winston Churchill is issued...

With a lot going on in the Vantage FX office this morning, just a quick note featuring a few charts and carries on from the commodities trading theme we’ve been following recently in the Forex News Centre...

The six month annualised growth rate in the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity three to nine months into the future, fell from –1.07% in February to –1.53% in March...

Prices rose 3.8% in the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction after a 2.1% gain previously. Although markets had been expecting prices to advance at the latest auction, the gain triggered a further advance for the New Zealand currency ahead of a key interest rate decision next week...

Moving averages are without a doubt the most popular trading tools and indicators. Moving averages are a great tool if you know how to use them – most traders, however, make some fatal mistakes when it comes to trading with moving averages...

Lausanne is joining the growing list of places looking to experiment with a universal basic income. Politicians in Lausanne — a city of around 150,000 people in Switzerland — have adopted a motion to carry out a pilot scheme for basic income in the city...

The US presidential selection process is well underway, and yet there has been no coherent discussion of fiscal policy. In part, this is because it does not appear particularly urgent. The US deficit peaked in 2009 at 10.1% of GDP. Last year it stood at what for most OECD countries an enviable 2...

Verbal ping-pong is to be heard at the Frankfurt press conference this Thursday, as monetary super weapons were launched just a month ago and the monetary conditions including inflation and credit outlook are rather positive...

The US dollar has depreciated over the past few months, even against the euro which has refused to head down despite the ECB’s efforts...