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35 articles tagged forex, newest first. Every price call in these articles was recorded when published and later checked against market data — see the track record.
Yields Near 5%, a Fed Decision Pending, and Eight Majors That Barely Breathed
Not one major pair moved a tenth of a percent ahead of the Fed. The drift that did occur — USD/CAD's third green close, the kiwi at its floor — leaned hawkish.
India Bought $44.9 Billion of Dollars and the Dollar Never Noticed
The largest weekly reserve build on record was raised in the forward market, not in spot — which is why the majors barely twitched. The live divergence is yen v...
Rising Yields, a Falling Dollar: Japan's 4.7% Wage Print Is Doing More Than the Fed
USD/JPY printed 152.908 intraday before closing at 154.219 as Treasury three-year paper cleared at 4.474%. When higher US yields stop buying dollar strength, th...
The Yen Broke Its 90-Day Floor With Wall Street Closed — That's the Whole Story
USD/JPY fell 1.00% to 154.432 on a US holiday, taking out its 90-day low while the RBI defended the rupee at 94.42. Fed hike odds rose and the dollar still coul...
A Hawkish Jobs Print, a Trade Threat, and a Dollar That Refused to Collect
September hike odds firmed and the greenback took nothing for it — softer against four of seven dollar pairs. EUR/GBP, pinned at its 90-day high, is where the s...
India's $740.8 Billion Shield and a Yen Pinned to Its Floor — The Flow Story Behind a Flat Friday
India's reserves hit a record $740.8 billion as the rupee closed at 94.43 for a sixth straight gain. The G10 barely twitched — but USD/JPY sits a third of a per...
Five of Eight Majors Sit Within a Tenth of a Percent of a 90-Day Extreme — and Nobody Moved
A flat July PPI took the Fed's next hike off the table, yet the dollar closed fractionally firmer against nearly every major. Compression this tight at the edge...
Dhaka's $37 Billion Rebuild Met a Softer Fed — And the Kiwi Still Finished Last
Fed hike odds fell to 40% and Asian reserve managers exhaled, yet the dollar's retreat was confined to the euro, franc and yen. NZD/USD dropped 0.27% and led th...
Hormuz Is Repricing the Loonie, Not the Franc — and the Yen Didn't Blink
Crude's grind higher on the Hormuz stalemate lifted the two commodity currencies while the franc softened and the yen sat still. An energy shock that skips the...
The RBI Chose Plumbing Over Policy: $40.8 Billion In, Rates Unchanged
India's central bank mobilized $40.82 billion through a concessional swap window while preparing to leave the repo rate alone — a currency defense that never to...
A 27% Chance of a Hike, and the Franc Blinks First: USD/CHF Finishes at Its 52-Week High
Prediction-market odds of a surprise July Fed hike climbed to 27%, and the dollar firmed against all seven counterparts — yet nothing moved four tenths of a per...
The Cedi Widens Its Spread and India Builds Its Wall — The Quiet Friday That Wasn't
A GHS 0.69 gap between the interbank and street rate tells the real story of dollar stress in West Africa, while India's $676 billion reserve wall holds the rup...
Chips Rebound, Carry Exhales: The Yen at 162.418 Is Where the Risk Rally Gets Priced
Asia's chip-led rally handed yen-funded carry a reprieve just as a fourth straight week of slowing US hiring chips at the differential beneath it. USD/JPY, 0.26...
Nine Nights of Strikes, $90 Oil, and a Frozen G10 Board — USD/JPY 162.85 Is the Pressure Valve
Brent's return above $90 is being paid in cedi depreciation and RBI inflow engineering, not G10 volatility — yet. USD/JPY sits 0.3% from its 52-week high, and t...
Sterling Meets Its New Prime Minister — and EUR/GBP, Pressing Yearly Lows, Is the Tell
UK jobs beat expectations on Andy Burnham's first full day in office, and the pound is answering the political handover with quiet strength. EUR/GBP at 0.8503 s...
JSW's ₹1.3 Trillion Buildout Is a Rupee Story — and USD/JPY at 162.42 Is Where It Lands
A steel expansion in Mumbai, a closed Strait of Hormuz, and a rupee pinned near 96.42 all feed one funding channel — and USD/JPY sits 0.3% from its 52-week high...
The Dollar's $12B Tell: Why Stablecoin Outflows Are an FX Story in Disguise
A $12B stablecoin exodus and a stubbornly bid dollar are the same trade viewed from two windows — capital is retreating to the highest real yield it can find, a...
Trust Migrates to the Rails: Seoul's September CBDC Test Meets a Rupee Sinking to 96.44
Institutions have stopped trusting static crypto audits, and the Bank of Korea's live deposit-token test shows where settlement flow goes next — while an oil sh...
A Sleeping Session Speaks: The Dollar Idles as a Grim Labor Read Whispers Under the Calm
No major cross moved more than 0.06% on Sunday, but a record 105.8 million Americans now sit outside the labor force — and the stillness in the greenback carrie...
Seoul Drafts a Convertible Won as the G10 Sleeps — Every Major Frozen Inside 0.06%
South Korea's boldest FX liberalization yet ran against a Sunday tape where not one major moved more than 0.06% — the periphery is writing the story the center...