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 3, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) Lost in the flurry of economic and monetary news of the week was the Bank of Canada’s December decision on interest rates. The Bank kept its target rate at 0.5%, and … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 25, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) On October 21st, the Bank of Canada issued its latest statement on monetary policy. While the Bank of Canada (BoC) left interest rates unchanged, it slightly lowered its growth forecast over … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 24, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} In the middle of this fresh decline, the Bank of Canada delivered its July Monetary Policy Report with another rate cut included. The reaction in the currency market was just … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 16, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) In the wake of the Bank of Canada’s latest announcement of monetary policy, the Canadian dollar (FXC) finally broke through an important line against the U.S. dollar. It is a line … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on Feb 2, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) It is never good to see a negative print on a GDP growth number. It is even worse when it is below market “expectations.” When Statistics Canada reported a GDP decline … Read more