11:00 am 4:00 pm EUR/USD 1.1954 1.2051 GBP/USD 1.3757 1.3834 CHF/USD 1.3028 1.3141 AUD/USD 0.6970 0.7003 NZD/USD 0.6007 0.6021 CNY/USD 0.1438 0.1438 Gold 5085.57 5160.29 Silver 108.19 111.36 Source: Reuters Continue reading Interbank market news scan for 27 January 2026 at 4:03 pm.
11:03 am 4:02 pm EUR/USD 1.1891 1.1882 GBP/USD 1.3700 1.3679 CHF/USD 1.2928 1.2875 AUD/USD 0.6936 0.6918 NZD/USD 0.5984 0.5977 JPY/USD 0.0065 0.0065 CNY/USD 0.1438 0.1438 Gold 5091.56 5047.10 Silver 112.11 108.01 Source: Reuters Continue reading Interbank market news scan for 26 January 2026 at 4:02 pm.
11:03 am 4:05 pm EUR/USD USD 1.1754 USD 1.1819 GBP/USD USD 1.3556 USD 1.3630 NZD/USD USD 0.5913 USD 0.5938 AUD/USD USD 0.6871 USD 0.6892 CHF/USD USD 1.2674 USD 1.2791 JPY/USD USD 0.0063 USD 0.0064 CNY/USD USD 0.1436 USD 0.1436 Gold USD 4960.88 USD 4981.89 Silver USD 100.19 USD 102.46 Source: Reuters Continue reading Interbank market news scan for 23 January 2026 at 4:05 pm.
11:00 am 4:00 pm EUR/USD 1.1731 1.1751 GBP/USD 1.3478 1.3498 CHF/USD 1.2636 1.2661 NZD/USD 0.5892 0.5906 AUD/USD 0.6821 0.6837 JPY/USD 0.0063 0.0063 CNY/USD 0.1434 0.1434 Gold 4870.11 4921.99 Silver 95.63 96.21 Source: Reuters Continue reading Interbank market news scan for 22 January 2026 at 4:49 pm EST
As a binary options trader, I don’t care about cuts in the federal funds rate outside of where an announcement moves the price of the EUR/USD in the short term. But as someone who has to work for a living and is in need of a boost to their capital, a lowered rate of interest … Continue reading Am I pleased with the EUR/USD?
There is ongoing concern of a threat by the Executive Branch to the independence of the Federal Reserve System, specifically influence by the Executive Office of the President on the decisions made by the Federal Open Market Committee on monetary policy. I do not think the issue is political threats to the independence of the … Continue reading It is less about political interference with the Fed and more about the degree of interference.
The biggest takeaway from today’s sit downs with Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, was the continued need for the independence of the Federal Reserve System from political influence and that the maximum employment mandate was not at risk given … Continue reading Of Bostic, Goolsbee, tariffs, and the Panama Canal.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president and chief executive officer Raphael Bostic and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president and chief executive officer Austan Goolsbee will each deliver remarks today on monetary policy and issues pertinent to the districts within which their banks operate. President Goolsbee is a member of this year’s Federal Open Market … Continue reading Will Bostic or Goolsbee say something that will move the markets today?
Reuters today posted yet another call by U.S. President Donald Trump for Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee to lower the target range for the federal funds rate. The target range for the federal funds rate is currently between 4.25% and 4.50%. The federal funds rate is a weighted average of the … Continue reading Trump’s call on Powell to lower benchmark rates has no impact on direction of foreign exchange rates.
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