http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/http://mediaserver.fxstreet.com/images/fxstreet-provider-logo1-en.gif7http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-28.v03.htmlWhat began as an uptick in Greek bond yields in late September 2009 billowed into the battle of the Euro's life. The 11-year-old currency sunk to 14-month lows last week as capital markets harshly rejected Greece's ability to honor sovereign debt commitments on account of its exorbitantly under reported fiscal deficits. Ratings agencies, hurting from being chastised over lax rating rigor in the run up to the sub prime debacle, slashed Greece's sovereign debt to junk. This meant the premiumsWed, 28 Apr 2010 09:47:58 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-28.v03.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-28.htmlThe Greek debt crisis seems to have reached a critical juncture since Athens threw in the towel and asked for the proposed EU/IMF aid plan to be put into effect last Friday. If anyone thought that would mark the beginning of the end of Greece's troubles, they were sorely mistaken since Germany is now showing some tough love towards its European partner. The largest single chunk of the €45-billion loan package falls on the Germans' shoulders and Chancellor Angela Merkel has made it clear thatWed, 28 Apr 2010 07:11:38 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-28.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-23.htmlThe Greek debt crisis seems to have reached a critical juncture since Athens threw in the towel and asked for the proposed EU/IMF aid plan to be put into effect last Friday. If anyone thought that would mark the beginning of the end of Greece's troubles, they were sorely mistaken since Germany is now showing some tough love towards its European partner. The euro has consequently plunged against both the dollar and the yen during Tuesday's trading session. The largest single chunk of theFri, 23 Apr 2010 07:12:03 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-23.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-13.htmlThe euro has been slightly buoyed by Tuesday's Greek bond auction with the common currency edging upwards to the area of 1.3650 versus the dollar at the beginning of Wednesday's European session. The auction proved to be bittersweet for the debt-ridden Greeks. While Greek government bonds drew lots of interest and Athens was able to meet its most pressing budgetary needs with the sale, the spread the market required to take on the Greeks' debt is still three times as high as it was just thisTue, 13 Apr 2010 08:17:19 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-04-13.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-29.htmlThe euro has opened trading on Monday a full 2 cents higher than Friday's close thanks to the announcement of the details of a bailout plan for Greece over the weekend. The euro started today's session at 1.3625, its highest level in four weeks. After months of rumors and political maneuvering, the finance ministers of the European Monetary Union finally agreed to concrete mechanisms and quantities of money for a rescue package to be enacted if Greece can not meet its financing needs on theMon, 29 Mar 2010 06:48:49 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-29.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-26.htmlIn the end, they met half way. After months of waiting and days of brinkmanship, the 27 members of the European Union agreed yesterday, March 25, to a bail out plan for Greece that includes both the EU and the International Monetary Fund. German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to Brussels with a clear opposition to a Europe-only rescue since Germany, as its largest economy, would have ended up fitting the largest part of the bill with Merkel's CDU facing important regional elections only monthsFri, 26 Mar 2010 07:21:57 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-26.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-22.htmlThe leaders of the European Union begin their two day summit in Brussels today with the debt crisis front and center on the agenda and the euro hitting fresh multi-month lows. While a possible bailout for Greece will no doubt be the focus of the meeting, the greater health of the 16 member monetary union was once again put into question with Fitch downgrading Portugal's public debt yesterday. Fitch reduced Portugal's public debt rating to 'AA-' from 'AA' and qualified its outlook asMon, 22 Mar 2010 08:11:49 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-22.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-15.htmlHow fast things can change. The euro has slid more than 200 pips from a five-week high just two days ago on March 17 as concerns over the Greek debt crisis have undermined the Euro-Zone's common currency. The market had been put relatively at ease after Greece received a boost from the EU finance ministers and Standard & Poors earlier this week. The finance ministers announced that they had worked out a framework for a theoretical bailout package, while the credit rating agency deemed theMon, 15 Mar 2010 08:47:19 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-15.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-09.htmlThe euro has rallied steadily upwards in recent trading as Greece has taken further steps to reduce its public debt and speculators have been put in the hot seat. Yesterday, Athens announced additional measures to cut into its 12.7% deficit while a massive general strike brought the country to a standstill. The two main labor unions joined forces to protest the government's austerity package. The Greek government plans to reduce this huge gap by three points come year end. The Euro-Zone'sTue, 09 Mar 2010 08:40:04 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-03-09.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-02-25.htmlThe Greek government is set to unveil a new round of austerity measures on Wednesday at 10:30 CET. The package will likely consist of additional tax hikes along with wage cuts. These new steps will be on top of the previously announced tax increases and salary freezes that have already provoked massive strikes across the Mediterranean nation. The decision comes after the European Union Commissioner for Monetary Affairs, Olli Rehn, pushed Greece to take further steps in order to reach the goalThu, 25 Feb 2010 11:18:21 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-02-25.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-02-11.htmlThis may just be the eye of the storm, but it appears that the markets have changed their mind, at least for the time being, about what at first was widely viewed as only a vague political commitment by the European Union to help Greece "if needed" with its enormous debt burden. The euro's free fall versus the dollar to reach an eight-month low on February 12 has so far been halted, and the euro/dollar pair even managed to rally upwards to a two-week high after a meeting of EU financeThu, 11 Feb 2010 10:07:22 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2010-02-11.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2008-10-08.htmlStock markets worldwide closed yesterday with important losses, despite the coordinate cut, while the IMF warned about a the spreading financial crisis turning into a deeper than expected recession. It also praised interest rate cuts, as it has warned about the worsening of the global economic outlook, which threatens to push several advanced economies into recession. Markets were astonished yesterday when the US federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, SwissWed, 08 Oct 2008 11:58:39 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2008-10-08.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2007-08-23.htmlThe Fed implemented a cut in the discount rate to control the current financial market crisis in August 17. More or less since the same days many central banks started to inject large amounts of funds to ensure liquidity of markets. On August 21, it lowered the fee to borrow Treasury securities, yet another measure to ease constraints in the marketplace Where are currencies going now? Get the picture on FXstreet.com Rates & Charts . In-Depth Analysis ECB and Fed: Managing Expectations byThu, 23 Aug 2007 15:04:36 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2007-08-23.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2007-08-10.htmlThe financial markets have experienced a lot of uncertainty in the last sessions, fuelled mainly by the bankruptcy that many US financial organizations specialized in subprime mortgages are facing since last spring. This uneasiness is finally affecting the economies worldwide, starting on Europe where the ECB, in an unprecedented move, has injected €94,800 million to the markets in order to compensate the lack of liquidity. One of the main reasons for this movement was the announcement of BNPFri, 10 Aug 2007 10:14:12 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2007-08-10.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2007-02-28.htmlWorld equity markets sell-off The equity markets in China, Japan, US, Europe and Latin America felt a tremendous fall yesterday. The move, that caught many wrong-footed, was mainly provoked by the massive capital outflows on concerns China and the rest of Asian economies may not be as buoyant as expected. Where are currencies going now? Get the picture on FXstreet.com Rates & Charts . Or watch the live movements of the currencies in the review that our advisor, Tony Juste, has prepared inWed, 28 Feb 2007 14:12:28 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2007-02-28.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2006-11-28.htmlU.S. Housing Bubble Wikipedia defines the Housing Bubble as: "A type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets. It is characterized by rapid speculative increases in the valuations of real property such as housing until they reach unsustainable levels relative to incomes and other economic elements, followed by decreases that can result in many owners holding negative equity." In fact, owning a house is becoming impossible since the last 10 years.Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:58:11 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2006-11-28.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2006-11-09.htmlU.S. Mid term elections are not having the huge impact on currencies that was expected. The Dollar is maintaining flat after all the changes undertaken in the leadership of the country, which have almost not affected the currency markets. Now that Congress and Senate are Democrat but President is still Republican... will calm reign in Forex? Where are currencies going now? Get the picture on FXstreet.com Rates & Charts Read: Who Wins? Who Cares! at Ed Ponsi's FX Educator Blog. In-DepthThu, 09 Nov 2006 12:30:56 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2006-11-09.htmlhttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2006-08-10.htmlOn August the 10th UK lived a day on maximum terror alert after police said they foiled a terrorist plot to blow up 12 planes flying between Britain and the United States. 21 suspects have been arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 in London, the Thames Valley and Birmingham. The terror threat increased volatility in all the markets. In terms of Forex, GBP and EUR were affected: During the day after the facts, GBP/USD and GBP/CHF fell on the news. FXstreet.com has compiled information on newsThu, 10 Aug 2006 14:55:23 GMThttp://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/forex@fxstreet.com (FXstreet.com)http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/news-special-coverage/2006-08-10.html