International exchange rates show how much one unit of currency can be exchanged per unit of another currency. Currency exchange rates can be floating, in which case they are constantly changing based on many factors, or they can be tied (or fixed) to another currency, in which case they also float, but they move in tandem with that currency, to which they are attached.  

The new trading week began today with a large Asian session: China’s GDP for the 2nd quarter, industrial output in June, investment in fixed assets and retail sales outside China raised the mood for investors and set the tone for the Australian and New Zealand currencies. Investments in China’s fixed assets rose by 5.8% in June compared with the same period last year, after rising 5.6% in May. Economists had forecast growth of 5.6%. Industrial production increased by 6.3% in June, after rising by 5.0% in May. Economists had forecast growth of 5.2%.

The dollar weakened on Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell paved the way for a rate cut later this month, promising to "act appropriately" so that the world's largest economy could sustain its ten-year growth. In his speech to Congress, Powell pointed to a “broad” global weakness that clouded the US economic outlook against the backdrop of uncertainty over the consequences of the Trump administration’s trade dispute with China and other countries.

One of the main fundamental events for Forex traders this week will be the release of fresh labor statistics from the US, coming out this Friday. NonFarm Payrolls, Average Hourly Earnings, and Unemployment Rate can have a significant impact on the US currency. NonFarm Payrolls Last data: 75K Consensus forecast: 160K

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New orders for key U.S.-made capital goods unexpectedly fell amid declining demand for machinery and primary metals, pointing to a sustained slowdown in business spending on equipment that could further crimp economic growth. The economy’s outlook was also dimmed by other reports on Thursday showing a measure of factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region contracted in February for the first time since May 2016 and home resales plunging to a more than three-year low in January.

The US currency rate is falling on the first day of the new trading week in relation to most world currencies in anticipation of a meeting of the national regulator, as well as signals on the further monetary policy of the department, taking into account the slowdown in the global economy. As of the morning, the euro / dollar rate rose to 1.1418 dollars per EUR from the previous close of 1.1412 USD per euro. The dollar against the yen fell to 109.38 JPY per dollar from the previous close of 109.53 JPY per dollar. The dollar index fell by 0.08%, up to 95.72 points.

The dollar fell versus its major peers on Friday, as investors grew increasingly confident that the U.S. Federal Reserve may hit the pause button on monetary tightening this year. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated on Thursday the U.S. central bank has the ability to be patient on monetary policy given that inflation remains stable. Markets are now pricing in no further rate hikes by the Fed this year. Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida also struck a dovish tone, underscoring the central bank’s willingness to remain patient on the issue of raising rates.

The price of gold is falling at the first half of Wednesday against the backdrop of ongoing negotiations between Washington and Beijing on trade issues that increase investors’ risk appetite. Also, investors tend to play the "dovish" statements of the US Federal Reserve. As of early morning, the price of the February gold futures on the New York Stock Exchange Comex fell by 2.1 dollars, or 0.16% - up to 1,283.8 dollars per troy ounce. The cost of the March silver futures decreased by 0.2% - to 15.682 dollars per ounce.

Gold rose on Monday, helped by a weaker dollar on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve might apply brakes on its monetary tightening cycle in 2019, although an improved risk appetite limited gains for the safe haven metal. Spot palladium, which broke through $1,300 on Friday to hit its highest on record at $1,310 per ounce, was still trading at a slight premium to gold. Spot gold was up about 0.4 percent at $1,290.42 per ounce as of 0752 GMT. U.S. gold futures gained 0.5 percent to $1,291.90 per ounce.

The Japanese yen and the Swiss franc gained on Monday, thanks to safe-haven buying as sentiment in financial markets remained fragile on heightened worries over political instability in the United States and fears of a global economic slowdown. Trading volumes were thinning out with most global markets set to shut for Christmas, while Japan was closed on Monday for a holiday. There was hardly any appetite among investors to take on risk, with a deteriorating outlook for global growth leaving stocks hurtling down for their worst quarterly performance since 2008.

Wall Street looked set for big gains on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2017, with all eyes on the Dow Jones Industrial Average as it zeroes in on the historical 20,000 mark. After coming within a hair's breadth of the milestone in December as part of a post-election rally, the Dow will make a fresh attempt at breaching the mark.

This week the most anticipated fundamental market event will be the Nonfarm Payrolls data release. According to the forecasts of economists, even if the NFP figures are relatively modest, it will not stop the strengthening of the American currency in relation to all of its main competitors.

The dollar recovered from a two-week low against a basket of six major currencies on Monday, though trade was thin due to many markets being closed for the New Year holiday.

The USD climbed back towards a 14-year high on Tuesday as the Japanese yen fell after the Bank of Japan held policy steady and fallout from attacks in Germany and Turkey subdued the euro. European shares were steady, with unease over the attacks balanced by gains by bank shares and the Milan market.

Oil prices rose on Monday as a weaker dollar and the delay of new Libyan oil exports boosted benchmarks, amid expectations of tighter crude supply going into 2017. Brent crude futures traded at $55.47 per barrel, up 26 cents from their last close. Analysts said the increases, which built on gains of around 2 percent on Friday, were driven by a delay in crude oil supplies from Libya.

Wall Street looked set to open higher on Tuesday, as investors keep a close watch of the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting where it is widely expected to raise interest rates for the second time since the financial crisis.

The euro dropped on Friday for a second consecutive day in a continued reaction to the European Central Bank's extending its bond-buying program longer than many had anticipated, even as the bank cut the size of the monthly purchases.

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Forex is a market in which there is a trade in currency units and various stocks. Forex traders buy a cheap currency and sell when the price goes up, or vice versa. Every year, this area is becoming more and more popular. Internet is full of lots of useful information but it is also full of myths.

EUR prices down almost to $1.05 level at the beginning of the new trading week after the publication of the first results of the referendum in Italy on the issue of constitutional reform of the country. The last time the European single currency was so cheap in the spring of 2015.

Oil prices shot up 12 percent, smashing trading volume records, after OPEC and Russia cut a deal to reduce output to drain a global supply glut, but analysts warned they could remain modest by historical comparison as other producers fill the gap.

The dollar and U.S. bond yields fell on Monday as investors reversed a "Trumpflation" trade that has gripped markets since the U.S. elections, after oil prices slid on fears that producer countries meeting this week could fail to agree an output cut.

One of the most common situations, with which constantly has to deal any Forex trader is an unexpected and unpredictable movement of currencies prices that trigger market volatility.

The Federal Reserve thinks it will be appropriate to raise interest rates “relatively soon,” according to minutes of its most recent meeting released Wednesday. This release covered the meeting that was held November 1-2, a week before the US election.

If you want to invest in stocks, you first need to understand how the stock market works. For the investor it is particularly important to know what causes the quotes to vary. After all, the stock market prices fluctuate greatly, even for a second they may go up or down. Volatility is a probability of stock prices’ change.

Last month of this fall looks like the best time for the US currency over the past couple of years. USD gained more than 3 percent against the EUR, and more than 5% against the Japanese yen. There are two main reasons for such a serious strengthening of USD, and both are related to the fact that the US economy is showing excellent results and is likely to continue to strengthen them in the future.

After the presidential election in the United States, USD had the most powerful rally, and the same asset-haven gold, where investors urged to invest in the case of victory of Donald Trump, has fallen by more than 5% and reached almost half-year lows.

Automated Forex trading is becoming increasingly popular every year. Many novice traders are unwilling to go into the analytical features of the exchange process and turning to automated trading advisors.

As Wall Street grapples with the election of Donald Trump as the next US president, it appears the order of the day is uncertainty. Among the myriad uncertain consequences of Trump's election is the real possibility of a major shake-up at the Federal Reserve. Some economists say that in terms of possible problems for the economy going forward the main risk is monetary policy uncertainty.

Despite the long-term development of the Forex market and its popularity, many new traders intuitively believe that in trade is sufficient to rely on luck and intuition, and thus are making a huge mistake.

Today in the US, will be released the October data of Nonfarm Payrolls but there are just little reasons to expect much positive from that report.

As attractive as the Forex market is to many people, the hard statistics show that the vast majority of Forex traders fail in the long run. That is not to say that there are not many traders that make a nice living from the Forex market, there are. However, if we can understand why so many people fail, maybe we ourselves can become a part of the minority that succeeds.

You've probably heard about the famous Dow Jones and S&P 500. But have you heard about the US dollar index? As well as the aforementioned stock indices, it is used to measure the strength or weakness of the US dollar (USD) against a basket of main currencies.

The tools used to predict the Forex market fluctuations, include a variety of economic models, technical indicators, decisions taken by the central banks, fluctuations in oil prices, and others. But trader should also take into account the impact of global cataclysms, ranging from natural disasters to wars and economic crises.

Once you trade in the Forex market, you probably heard about the oscillators. Combining oscillators and price action, you get a powerful combination of tools that can be very profitable. And there is another important point related to the divergence that many traders overlook.

If you want to achieve success as a forex trader, you have to keep your finger on the pulse of the world news. Knowing what is happening not only in your own country but in all the major economic powers, will help you to protect and enhance investments.

Today early in the morning, during the Asian trading session, GBP fell by more than 6% in just two minutes against the US dollar, reaching the level of 1985 and shocking even experienced traders. “Initially I have doubts about what I saw on my computer screen,” commented Kenji Yoshii, a foreign exchange strategist at Mizuho Securities.

So far the monthly reports on employment in the US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) are becoming more and more interesting. Last month, the figures exceeded even the wildest analytical predictions, showing a great numbers of one of the most important indicator of the US economy: 190K. So, what to wait this Friday?

The first report this year on the number of people employed in the non-agricultural sector of the US (Nonfarm Payrolls) as always promises to be a major fundamental economic event of the week. Although in the light of the recent shock on the world commodity markets, caused by the fall in the index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, this fact is not so obvious.

This Friday, traders expect one of the most important fundamental releases - a report on the number of people employed in non-agricultural field of the US economy (Nonfarm payrolls). Based on the results of that publication, it will become even clearer how really strong the US dollar is.

New Year’s holidays have passed, but the hangover for the single European currency could take a long time. This may well be related with the upcoming on January 25 early parliamentary elections in Greece, which according to the polls is likely to win the left Syriza party and its leader Alexis Tsipras.

It seems that the dominance of the American dollar continues. US employment growth in November at 314,000, along with some statements of representatives of the ECB, contributed to the fact that the US dollar index rose to the heights of 2006.

On trading results of the beginning of the week, oil prices have adjusted. Brent for January delivery closed trading at about $ 72.8 per barrel. WTI crude oil rose up to $ 69.2 per barrel. Short-term growth has been driven by two factors.

Incentives of the European Central Bank are gaining momentum, but if it turns out that current efforts are not enough to accelerate the recovery in the euro area, the ECB is ready to do more, said yesterday the bank's president Mario Draghi.

Yesterday, oil prices continued to decline. Early morning futures for Brent crude fell by 28 cents to 82.06 dollars per barrel, and futures for WTI - by 34 cents to 77.06. Earlier, when in the US was still Monday, Brent crude oil price fell to four-year low. Since the end of June, world oil prices have fallen by 30%. Futures price has gone down in the evening of the same day under the influence of statements of Kuwaiti Oil Minister that he does not expect a decision to reduce production by OPEC. "I do not think that any reduction in production will happen. We believe that prices will stabilize once the market absorbs the excess supply of oil," he said, speaking at a conference in the United Arab Emirates on Monday. OPEC countries are meeting on November 27. Their collective production quotas are now 30 million barrels per day. Analysts have no consensus on what decision OPEC will make regarding production volumes. Exchanges in London and New York immediately responded to the news with downtrend.

Prices for Brent are close to $ 84 per barrel, as investors no longer rely on the reduction by OPEC. Yesterday, Brent futures fell from $ 88.14 to $85 per barrel - the lowest level since December 2010. WTI futures fell by $ 0.73 to $ 85.01 per barrel. Brent prices are 20 percent below the peak reached in June of this year.