Currencies

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are hanging in this morning as the market participants prepare for a slew of earnings results from the likes of Coca Cola (KO, quote), Mattel (MAT, quote) and Intel (INTC, quote) as well as a busy economic calendar today.

Currency Carry Trade

We had a subscriber ask about any suggestions where to look for possible currency ETFs action. Interest rates at record rates not only in the U.S. but globally as well.  Add into the mix huge amount of monetary easing  like QE3 from U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks around the globe like Japan, Australia and England just to mention a few has seem  have broken the system.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – market participants will need to navigate several market directional influences today. The S&P 500 index has gains for 3 straight sessions with today’s futures suggesting a positive open once again.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S markets started off the 4th quarter with strong trading intraday gains, although the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes did close solidly in the green the markets did exhibit the most recent trend off lately of selling off into the close.  U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs with the NASDAQ falling into negative.   The averages ended the day well off

Breaking News - Australia Central Bank

Breaking News – Australia Central Bank

Euro

The Euro continues to be under pressure for the 9th straight session. As headlines hit the wires about Greece and Spain market participants look to move away from the risk appetite assets send money flowing out of the Euro and into the U.S. dollar. Playing the move Euro move

Euro

The Euro continues to be under pressure for the 8th straight session. As headlines hit the wires about Greece and Spain market participants look to move away from the risk appetite assets send money flowing out of the Euro and into the U.S. dollar. Playing the move Euro move

USD/CAD's next move

The USD/CAD moved lower today on mixed Canadian economic data and imminent Spanish bailout sent traders fleeing the U.S. dollar into the Lonnie.  

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S futures are indicating a lower open with fair value for the Dow Jones at -23.10, S&P 500 at -2.24 and the NASDAQ fair value at -5.84. Market participants will get to hear from two Federal Reserve officials throughout the day today.

U.S. Dollar Losing Ground To The Euro

The U.S. dollar continues to remain under pressure as the U.S. dollar index trades below the 80 level to 79.68 in anticipation of the Federal Reserve will begin its third round of monetary easing (QE3). Market participants are focusing on tomorrow’s statement from the FMOC scheduled for 12:30 a.m. ET.