FX Outlook

The unemployment data published on December 4, 2009 gave us a rare insight into how the traders in different markets view the numbers. Arguably, the most interesting was that of the equity traders. Stocks initially jumped higher by 150 points

 Adults are only kids grown up. Walt Disney Disney's enduring attraction was updated and revamped last year, but its theme resonates even more today than when the attraction opened at the 1966 World Fair and subsequently moved to the Disneyland

 I was a bit surprised last week when the Mexican peso appeared on the Bloomberg radar screen, that screen that 170,000 of us around the world have in front of us for much of our working day. The blip wandered

For the past two years, foreign exchange (FX) markets have been influenced by the massive global monetary policy stimulus programs and central bank quantitative easing (QE) efforts to stimulate and support local economies. At the forefront of this activity, the

 Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana For those who have not been paying attention, the U.S. dollar (USD) recently posted a 15 month low last week as it continues to be sold

China's Recovery Firmed Recent data all pointed to a recovery in China. GDP growth in Q3 2009 was in line with expectation, at 8.9 percent annually. This was higher than the 7.9 percent in Q2 and 6.1 percent in Q1.

As in other major economies, production in Japan is on a recovery course driven by inventory adjustments. However, Japan's production recovery is not showing its usual high sensitivity to the global economy in this cycle. It is lagging major Asian