It has been a long time since the financial world has experienced such a shock. Long-time trust to franc as the reliable protective asset was undermined by the regulator's "pirate" activities. As early as on last Monday, retention of euro balance was the basis of the monetary policy, then on Thursda...

The market is still proving that no economy can be adapted to a scenario that is suitable for everyone. The year that began was advertized as the year of modification of interest rates and monetary tightening; however, some factors keep on emerging successfully shifting main issues to indefinite ter...

New goals are caused by old problems. The year that passed under the banner of US dollar strengthening reflects logically aggressive policy conducted by Europe and Japan. Closed and self-sufficient American economy will be quite able both to handle dollar growth and the upcoming rate increase, and t...

The biggest information intrigue of the recent months is not quite the dates of American rate increase or the purchase amount in the framework of the European QE. It is the creative investment plan developed by Jean-Claude Juncker with the price of 315 bln. euro (around $390 bln.), announced back in...

The market moves to the pre-New year slumber, and only several provokers are active in small volumes - the time has come to think about "perspective" problems. Even wise Alan Greenspan tried to outsmart the market through manipulations with interest rates. The 1999 situation also had cheap raw mater...

Weak perspective of long-term price stability in combination with low rate of Eurozone economic growth requires ECB's final decision with regard to implementation of large-scale QE program. Reevaluation of the regulator's corresponding measures is planned as early as in the 1st quarter of 2015. Anyw...

The NFP that passed is trying to persuade the market that US dollar is still powerful. Even against the background of rate revision back in April 2015 hardly anyone could imagine such a strong growth of labor market information. Farm payrolls dynamics until November sent signals with regard to slowi...

Present day market of oil prices that collapsed demonstrates the situation when even a very strong local foundation is not able to protect from deterioration of foreign trade, decline of export, slowing down of inflation or GDP growth. The currencies of countries that are net importers are becoming ...

In present-day conditions, any currency tries to become weaker against dollar, thus hoping to avoid deflation. Pound also supports that tendency. Besides that fact that the current statistics and the Bank of England meeting protocols did not add light in the obscure issue regarding rate increase dat...

There is an opinion that Switzerland is quite well off for its franc to be the guaranteed reserve currency. The country is the largest external creditor, which puts the national economy into multidimensional dependence on the reliability of such ties. The upcoming "gold" referendum organized in orde...