ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 27, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) In “A Major Test Awaits The Australian Dollar In 2014 As 2013 Delivered New Correlations” I discussed this year’s strong (inverse) relationship between the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield and the Australian … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 23, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) The Australian dollar (FXA) has finally retested the “W-bottom” from August of this year. So far the test seems successful as the Australian dollar has sharply bounced off the lows over … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 3, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Source: FreeStockCharts.com After Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens reminded the market that currency intervention remains in the toolkit for currency devaluation, I half-expected some semantic fireworks in … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 21, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) As I noted earlier this week, I was eagerly anticipating the release of the minutes from the last policy meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and a speech by … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 11, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) The next statement on monetary policy from the U.S. Federal Reserve comes on December 18th. With taper expectations on the rise again thanks to the 204,000 jobs added in October, it … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 5, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) In today’s statement on monetary policy (Nov 5, 2013 in Australia), the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) offered up its usual menu of economic observations. As usual, my main interest turned … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 4, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) latest report on housing prices in Australia’s eight capital cities demonstrates a market that remains hot, especially in Sydney. These increasing prices are no surprise … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 29, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} And with that Governor Stevens went back on “attack” on the Australian dollar (FXA). This is the exact jawboning I had been expecting earlier to replace the RBA’s surprising omission … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 21, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) must be getting a bit antsy at this point. After working hard to drive the Australian dollar (FXA) downward in an on-going effort to rebalance … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 25, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Ever since news of Chinese banks making massive write-offs and a parallel spike in China money rates stoked renewed fears over the Chinese financial system, the Australian dollar (FXA) has pared … Read more