Forex Signals

Things have been awfully quiet for Japan and the Japanese Yen (JPY) of late, but with the risk aversion in the market the Yen has been strengthening.  This makes me nervous.  The Yen is at 15-year highs vs. Euro, and has been moving in the same direction vs. USD.
Recently, the US admonished Japan for their [...]

The Japanese yen (JPY) has been slowly strengthening, particularly vs. the US dollar as the monetary polcies of the two respective Central banks are seemingly moving in oppostie directions.  On the one hand, the rumors are flying that perhaps we are going to see QE3 here in the US as the economy continues to flounder, [...]

Out of nowhere this morning, the Japanese Yen strengthened vs. USD and made a new all-time high at 75.82, breaking what many consider to have been the “line in the sand”  at 76.  Take a look at the chart below.  You can see that the pair had been trading in a narrow range for some [...]

This, according to a hedge fund manager that has decided to cancel all of his fund’s bearish bets on the Japanese Yen. The reason: the yen is rising, and it’s unclear when – or even if – the government will intervene to push it back down. Even though the yen’s strength is fundamentally illogical, it [...]

On a correlation-weighted basis, the Japanese Yen has been one of the world’s weakest performing currencies in 2011. Alas, while this information is interesting for theoretical purposes, it is of little concern to traders, who focus instead on individual pairs. Against the dollar (USDJPY), the Japanese yen is still quite strong, having recovered most of [...]

Last night, Japan reported GDP figures that came in worse than expected, showing a quarterly decline of .9% vs. an expectation of a .5% decline, pushing the YoY figure to a negative 3.7% vs. the expectation of a negative 1.9%. By definition, this puts Japan in recession as the effects of the natural disaster there [...]

By Zac, CountingPips.com
The G7 major central banks have agreed to intervene in the forex markets to weaken the Japanese yen to offset the surging strength of the Japanese currency following the tragic earthquake and tsunami.
The announcement was made by a joint statement of the G7 finance ministers that said, “We express [...]

Investors simply must look at the price they are paying for Japanese stock market funds. What’s happening in the market today has turned dangerous.
Everyone knows the Nikkei collapsed by 11% overnight.

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But Japanese equity funds trading in New York have [...]

There’s not a lot of positive spin one can put on owning a
portfolio of Japanese stocks just as the country experiences the largest and most violent earthquake in its history. On Sunday, Prime Minister Naoto Kan called it the worst crisis since World War II.

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Overnight Japan was rocked with an 8.9 magnitude earthquake AND a tsunami that has caused major destruction in the island nation. This is an extremely large earthquake for a country that is used to earthquakes; and this has caused tsunami warnings as far away as the West coast of the US.
This has induced some risk [...]