(PRWEB) November 18, 2011

Germany?s firm attitude against labor market reforms and following new rules on spending cuts due its fear of hyper-inflation and losing the money it lent as a creditor over the last decade to the peripheral nations is making the situation in Europe worse. The Forex Ecn experts at the online Forex trading company InvestTechFX report that opinion polls indicating that a third of Italians welcome a return to authoritarian government with Silvio Berlusconi’s government teetering on the edge of collapse should make the Germans stop and think.

The head of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Christine Lagarde stated that Berlin?s fear of inflation is misplaced, as also reported by the Financial Times. Economics professor at LSE (London School of Economics) Albrecht Ritschl argues that the country has no claim on the higher moral ground. Indebted countries cannot withstand this level of punishment for past borrowing without political instability and internal political collapse, as has been discussed in The Guardian blog as well.

Germany has a history of high debts. Post-war allied powers who wrote off almost all Germany’s debts allowed Berlin to re-invent itself in 1919, 1948, and 1953. In pursuit of its ambitions, they ran up the largest debts of any nation during the 20th century, which were forgiven due to an agreement with the US and UK.

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(PRWEB) November 19, 2011

According to Chinese data including CPI, industrial production, and trade, the gold-dollar correlations are expected to continue to increase this week on a shorter term basis. InvestTehFX reports that the USD and gold will be driven up as retail spending could cut into investor sentiment and weaker data is expected in industrial production. Mild short term volatility drove traders towards the USD and gold havens while markets were affected by a possible referendum in Greece and its Euro Zone membership, and IMF?s oversight for Italy?s budget problems at the G20 meeting.

Traders are expected to closely monitor events in Europe according to the Forex currency exchange experts at the online Forex ECN company InvestTechFX. The central government may not stop their efforts to reign in prices by restricting the domestic economy though the key data is expected to be weaker. The Euro bid higher with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou stepping down to form a unity government between the main opposition New Democracy and his PASOK party. The spotlight has now turned to developments in Italy with Silvio Berlusconi, the ex Prime Minister seeing increasing defections in his party. Gold remains anti-dollar as longer term correlations have remained decidedly unchanged even though short term correlations between gold and the dollar have increased.

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(PRWEB) November 20, 2011

Manufacturers of drugs, clothes, solar panels, computer equipment, and cars in the United States have reported effects of the ongoing financial turmoil and upheaval in Europe. Though the consequences have been limited as of now, companies, investors, and consumers seem to be rattled by the sudden developments in the Euro Zone, according to the Forex trading experts at the online Forex ECN company InvestTechFX. The United States and Europe are interlinked and any slowdown across the Atlantic affects both the nations.

The shopping season is round the corner and the economy of the US is at its most vulnerable due to a wide trade deficit, weak hiring, high energy costs stagnant pay, and potentially steep government spending cuts. There are fears that consumers could rein in spending due to stock-market gyrations, which might further affect the profits companies in the US that have already been impacted by Europe’s sputtering growth. Smaller businesses and wine exports are also being affected due to poor European consumer sentiment and a weak Euro that is making wine in the US costlier by comparison. The EU is the United State?s number one trading partner and US companies with big European operations are suffering from lower prices, profits, and sales.

Fx Trading experts at InvestTechFX explain that the Euro Zone is expected to grow only 0.5% in 2012 that is far below the 1.8% growth predicted in the spring and the region might slip into a prolonged and seep recession in 2012.

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Hong Kong (PRWEB) November 21, 2011

ITFX reports that estimates of third-quarter GDP growth have yet to be released for all 17 countries of the euro zone. Notably absent and with the potential to further drag down the 0.2% growth figure are estimates for Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovenia.

Estonia, with a 0.8% result for the third quarter comes in at the top of the EU countries for which growth figures are available.

It appears that if Europe is not already in a recession, it seems to be headed in that direction.

Europeans will suffer a reduction to their standard of living, the job market will decline and consumers, uncertain about the future, will stop purchasing items that are essential to stimulating economic growth.

The impact of this reality will be felt acutely in the US, since 20% of its annual exports go to Europe. Asian countries will experience a similar reduction in exports.

This news had a profound effect on US stock markets Wednesday, when a report warning of the spreading European debt crisis? effect on large US banks caused and over 150 point drop in the Dow in the last hour of trading.

Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley dropped sharply. The top five US banks have over $ 100 billion in various assets tied to French banks. In turn, French banks have a high degree of exposure to the bonds of Greece and Italy.

It remains to be seen what new Italian prime minister designate Mario Monti and the new government in Greece can do to stop the erosion of confidence that euro investors have been treated to on a daily basis.

News that France?s 10 year bond rate rose from 2.54% near the beginning of October to close to 4% on Wednesday, threatening that country with the loss of its AAA credit rating, comes at a time when investors are holding out hope for anything that even closely resembles a move in a positive direction.

FX trading has become more complex lately as Forex currency exchanges attempt to make sense of the future of the euro zone economies and the euro currency.

Online Forex traders in particular, need to have access to the most current information coming from the euro zone, along with the ability to trade efficiently and economically. These traders find the services of a Forex ECN broker such as InvestTechFX, invaluable in providing accurate news, precise technical analysis and instantaneous currency pair order execution.

Being able to react as a trader to rapidly developing news and having access to the most competitive currency rates with tight, fixed spreads are just a couple of the advantages available from Forex ECN broker InvestTechFX. Their Forex currency exchange experts represent a combined 20 years of experience in unraveling the complex and unpredictable variables that influence currency pair price fluctuations.

With locations covering all four major FX trading zones, InvestTechFX offers the resources to which traders around the world are justifiably entitled. They can be contacted 24 hours a day, all five days of the Forex trading week, by telephone, fax, e-mail and online chat live support.

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Hong Kong (PRWEB) November 22, 2011

France, this past Monday, experienced a significant percentage increase in its borrowing costs to a level almost double that of Germany. One French economist and adviser to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacque Attali, commented in the newspaper La Tribune saying, ?Let?s not delude ourselves: In the markets, French debt is already not AAA.? Since France, along with Germany, are the main factors of the euro zone stability fund arranged to deal with Europe?s debt crisis, InvestTechFX reports that a change in France?s credit rating could threaten the entire plan.

Investor concern over French debt load and annual budget deficit are mainly responsible for higher yields on French bonds. While the French government steadfastly maintains that it has the ability to repay its debts, the French budget deficit is currently more than double the limit imposed in the 17 nation euro zone.

An analyst with Assya Compagnie Financiere, a French private equity and venture capital firm, Marc Touati, had this to say about France?s AAA credit rating: ?The question is not if France will be downgraded the question is to know when France will be downgraded.?

A preview of the implications of downgraded credit was presented to France last Thursday when an alert issued by Standard & Poor?s went out to some clients that France?s credit rating had already been reduced. The alert had been issued in error, but in the 1

Hong Kong (PRWEB) November 23, 2011

ITFX, Forex currency exchange firm, reports that Spanish voters, frustrated by the over 20% jobless rate and nonexistent economic growth, showed the door to the Socialist party and gave a commanding majority to the Conservative faction.

Prime Minister-elect Mariano Rajoy immediately sought to keep the expectations of the jubilant Spaniards realistic, according to Reuters. He is quoted as saying, ?It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years. For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.?

Those are formidable enemies indeed. Vanquishing any one of them, let alone all five, may require measures that will be difficult to sell in a country where a long history of socialistic administrations has turned a blind eye to economic reality.

Over 90% of all Spanish companies are classified as small or medium in size. Rajoy promised tax cuts for these companies, but did not indicate where the reduced revenues from these sources would be recovered, nor did he offer anything specific regarding the unemployment crisis, as explained by a recent Reuters report.

Spain?s situation represents a microcosm of the scenario that confronts the entire EU as well as the majority of the world?s developed economies. Too many entitlements, such as various social services and in the case of Spain, state-paid health care and education, exceed the revenues generated by a populace whose entrepreneurial productivity is constantly hampered by legislation and regulation that supplies little or no incentive to innovation.

The Euro common currency has been under attack for months now, but is making a valiant attempt to remain solvent.

The first 24 hours of the current trading week have seen attempts to push the euro lower versus other major currencies fail to establish new lows compared to last week, but conversely, euro values have only briefly tested last week?s close.

Euro prices, compared to the dollar have remained for the most part below the current open of 1.3525 and the half-way point between the high of 1.3840 and the overnight low of 1.3430.

Currently hovering around an important psychological level of 1.3500, the failure of the EUR/USD to make new lows, particularly when the DJIA has spent the majority of the day at close to a 300 point decline, is something to which online Forex traders are unaccustomed.

Typically, FX trading experts expect a decline in the Dow to match a decline in the euro against the dollar, as traders around the world seek the stability represented by the dollar. One possible explanation is that last week, the EUR/USD tested its open for the year, but failed to break that level when value seeking buyers got involved in sufficient strength to prevent any further decline by the euro.

There may be other reasons as well, chief of these be investors focus on the political situation in the United States, where all indications are that an agreement by the so-called Super committee has failed to achieve a compromise regarding deficit reduction and new revenue sources in the form of a tax increase.

Whatever the reason or reasons, a historical perspective shows that this time of year is often lacking in clear trends and sufficient trading volume to supply price volatility.

These are the type of trading conditions where a Forex ECN broker like Invest Tech FX, with tight, fixed spreads and comprehensive technical and fundamental analytical tools can make the difference between consistently profitable trades or having variable spread market maker brokers receive all the benefits of FX trading activity.

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(PRWEB) November 24, 2011

The 17 countries that make up the EU together account for over $ 16 trillion of gross domestic product (GDP). This is almost $ 2 trillion more than the GDP of the United States and nearly 3 times China?s $ 6 trillion. Economic growth has essentially come to a standstill in Europe. ITFX , Forex Trading firm, reports of statistics indicating growth for the quarter ending in September and the one prior to that was an anemic 0.2%. Online Forex traders have reacted with extreme wariness to the euro.

Estimates of third-quarter GDP growth have yet to be released for all 17 countries of the euro zone. Notably absent and with the potential to further drag down the 0.2% growth figure are estimates for Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovenia. Estonia, with a 0.8% result for the third quarter comes in at the top of the EU countries for which growth figures are available.

It appears that if Europe is not already in a recession, it seems to be headed in that direction. Europeans will suffer a reduction to their standard of living, the job market will decline and consumers, uncertain about the future, will stop purchasing items that are essential to stimulating economic growth.

The impact of this reality will be felt acutely in the US, since 20% of its annual exports go to Europe. Asian countries will experience a similar reduction in exports. This news had a profound effect on US stock markets Wednesday, when a report warning of the spreading European debt crisis? effect on large US banks caused an over 150 point drop in the Dow in the last hour of trading.

Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley dropped sharply, according to InvestTechFX experts. The top five US banks have over $ 100 billion in various assets tied to French banks. In turn, French banks have a high degree of exposure to the bonds of Greece and Italy.

It remains to be seen what new Italian prime minister designate Mario Monti and the new government in Greece can do to stop the erosion of confidence that euro investors have been treated to on a daily basis. News that France?s 10 year bond rate rose from 2.54% near the beginning of October to close to 4% on Wednesday, threatening that country with the loss of its AAA credit rating, comes at a time when investors are holding out hope for anything that even closely resembles a move in a positive direction.

FX trading has become more complex lately as Forex currency exchanges attempt to make sense of the future of the euro zone economies and the euro currency. Online Forex traders in particular, need to have access to the most current information coming from the euro zone, along with the ability to trade efficiently and economically. These traders find the services of a Forex ECN such as InvestTechFX, invaluable in providing accurate news, precise technical analysis and instantaneous currency pair order execution.

Being able to react as a trader to rapidly developing news and having access to the most competitive currency rates with tight, fixed spreads are just a couple of the advantages available from Forex ECN InvestTechFX. Their Forex currency exchange experts represent a combined 20 years of experience in unraveling the complex and unpredictable variables that influence currency pair price fluctuations.

With locations covering all four major Forex trading zones, InvestTechFX offers the resources to which traders around the world are justifiably entitled. They can be contacted 24 hours a day, all five days of the Forex trading week, by telephone, fax, e-mail and online chat live support.

For complete contact information, visit their website at http://www.investtechfx.com

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(PRWEB) November 25, 2011

In a poll conducted by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch this month, all fund managers picked the Euro Zone sovereign debt crisis as the biggest tail risk of the moment that might result in unprecedented financial chaos. InvestTechFX Fx Trading experts explain that investors are concerned about liquidity, which determines their ability to get in and out of securities quickly and many asset managers prefer sticking with more orthodox hedging and vanilla products that have a greater certainty of being paid out. After Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in September 2008, the importance of ?tail? risks has grown by leaps and bounds.

One of the popular hedges for sovereign default, credit default swaps risked being ineffective as CDS-type insurance may not now pay out on that debt due to a voluntary agreement with bank creditors to write off half the value of Greek bonds. The Forex currency exchange experts at the FX trading company InvestTechFX report that it is costly to develop strategies via options with volatility of G10 currencies being five times higher than average and the USD remains the default option for those seeking safety and liquidity in the foreign exchange market. Financial stress tends to see natural hedge flows back to dollars as a lot of leveraged money worldwide is still denominated in dollars, so buying derivatives on non-euro currencies or equity volatility may look like tempting strategies to protect portfolios from the financial storm.

Buying of the VIX, which has been one of the popular hedging plays, is responsible for a sharp equity price decline and though the strategy is already very popular, it is extremely costly. Furthermore, when stocks do go up, the risk is huge.

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Hong Kong (PRWEB) November 27, 2011

ITFX reports that the prices of stock indexes and Forex currency exchanges continue to show lackluster price activity. Trading has been confined to a tight range that offers little opportunity for market entry. A brief glance at S&P, Dow and major currency charts is all that is necessary to confirm this. The DJIA has spent the entire trading session either slightly down or slightly up compared with yesterday, which is also true for the S&P and the EUR/USD currency pair, which has remained almost exactly where it began the week.

The US Commerce Department reported earlier this week that the economy expanded at a 2% annual rate during the third quarter, which would be viewed as positive news other than for the fact that estimates released last month predicted a 2.5% rate of expansion.

Most of this slower growth rate is attributed to businesses, wary from 2009, when they had to steeply discount prices to clear excess inventory, cutting back on purchasing for purposes of restocking. The classic scenario of reducing supply to accommodate weak demand seems to be firmly in effect.

The Commerce Department also reported that high unemployment and low pay raises are reflected by the largest decline of after-tax incomes in the past two years.

Regardless of the validity of this or any other economist generated reports and predictions, the effect of continuous gloomy reports and forecasts has made consumer psyches decidedly cautious with regard to spending. Indices and currencies, which have struggled to move in a positive direction, could again turn downward if fourth quarter growth estimates of 3% fail to match expectations.

InvesttechFx Online Forex expert’s pronounce that the ongoing debt crisis in Europe could threaten to halt the anemic growth of American and Japanese economies, since exports to EU countries represent a significant portion of these two countries GDP. Greece, Italy and Spain have resorted to changing governments in an attempt to stem rising government bond yields; France threatened by a credit rating downgrade and only Germany shows any signs of escaping the recently ended recession.

Not all investors, however, are sitting on the sidelines afraid to objectively assess the current situation and act accordingly.

Warren Buffet feels that they are many valid buying opportunities in European equities. In a recent interviews, Buffett revealed that he perceived value in British retailer Tesco. Where Buffet differs from the average investor, however, is revealed by his statement, ?We bought Tesco earlier. I could buy more if the price came down.?

Our experts opinion is that Most traders buy a financial instrument based on the assumption and a desire that the price will increase, but some, like Buffett, are willing to risk a trade going against them, making additional purchases and adding to a loser, knowing that they have the financial resources to weather the draw down until eventually, they find the bottom.

This technique is referred to as ?bottom fishing? and can be employed by anyone who practices proper money management. Even a trader with Buffett?s deep pockets realizes that in order to use the technique properly, the initial entry must be small enough that any additional entry sizes can be increased sufficiently to bring the average entry price as close as possible to the current market price.

An online Forex trader, for example, might enter a buy order for 1000 currency units, then, if the trade goes against them some predetermined number of pips or to an apparent support level, enter another buy order for 3000 units. If the trader has correctly identified a bottom or support, the 3000 unit trade will accumulate profits more rapidly, overcoming the losses of the 1000 unit transaction and giving the trader the opportunity to close the trade when it is net profitable, or to close the 1000 unit segment and let the 3000 unit segment continue to accumulate profits until it appears that the upward price move has exhausted its momentum or reached an area of resistance. These are only two of the possible responses available with this powerful strategy.

Proper money management, including trading at the lowest possible cost, such as those available from a Forex ECN like InvestTechFX, makes it possible to more easily wait out the draw downs that even Warren Buffet accepts as a commonplace reality of investing.

Currency traders who would like more information on how to use bottom fishing and other FX trading strategies to accumulate foreign currency exchange trading profits with a low cost ECN broker can learn more at http://www.investtechfx.com

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Hong Kong (PRWEB) November 28, 2011

InvestTechFX emphasizes that the new government in Spain and Italy are facing greater economic challenges than at any time since the EU was established. Both countries have debt levels of around 120% of GDP. ITFX experts state that the solution is rather simple, but essentially impossible to implement.

Massive spending cuts to social programs such as health care and education are the only ways to slow down, let alone reduce, the growth of budget deficits. Recent rumors that the United States Federal Reserve could potentially become involved in guaranteeing EU debt, similar to what occurred on a limited basis in 2008, has United States investors scratching their heads and wondering why the Fed would get involved in Europe when the domestic situation is experiencing so many challenges.

They justifiably question the benefit of rescuing Europe when policymakers here seem unwilling or unable to achieve a compromise on how to deal with what, by EU standards, are minor issues, that is, budget deficits relatively equal to GDP as compared to 120% of GDP. This uncertainly doubtlessly contributed to an over 2% decline in the Dow, which spent the majority of Monday?s trading session down roughly 300 points, with an equivalent negative showing by the S&P.

Some analysts predict that the United States Central Bank is willing to offer discounted rates just as it did in the financial crisis of 2008. This is because if EU countries are unable to maintain their current level of accounting for approximately 20% of United States exports, the weak economic recovery in the United States is threatened. If Europe cannot import American goods, American consumers whose livelihoods depend on exports to EU countries will be forced to cut back on the purchases of goods and services that fuel economic growth.

This interconnectedness of world economies means that trouble in Europe has the potential to spread to the economies of other continents.

FX trading, difficult in the best of times, becomes even more problematic when currency traders have no clear picture of a currency?s future beyond the next economic release or major economic news event. Online Forex traders, particularly small, retail traders, have been finding currency markets in narrow sideways channels, have what many Forex currency exchanges experts consider the most challenging scenario that exists confronting them: not whether to go long or short, but whether or not price activity justifies trading at all.

During periods like these where narrow, sideways channels form, observing the spread rates of market maker brokers can be very illuminating. In this scenario, market maker spreads will decrease as brokers attempt to stimulate trading activity.

Savvy traders can use this information, along with the services of a Forex ECN, such as InvestTechFX, to place the low-volume, short time duration trades that the current environment mandates.

Low, fixed spreads available from InvestTechFX mean that traders who would otherwise be forced to remain inactive can trade with the confidence that comes from knowing that profits will not be contributed to the broker?s account.

For more information on how a small trader can participate in Forex currency exchange with low trading costs that were once the exclusive province of international banks and corporations, or simply to learn more about how to make Forex trading a part of a diversified investment portfolio, should visit the InvestTechFX website at http://www.investtechfx.com.

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