Analysis

  • Sayonara Mrs Watanabe; Japanese retail investors quit the FX market

    Published: 29 Mar 2012 | Spot | Regulation | Buyside

    Mrs Watanabe, the fabled yield-hungry Japanese housewife who likes nothing better than a bet on the currency market, looks to have taken up a new hobby.

  • Hong Kong future under threat from a more influential China

    Published: 26 Mar 2012 | Spot | Regulation

    An internationalised renminbi and open Chinese capital account is poised to marginalise Hong Kong’s clout as a financial hub and offshore currency centre. The city must leverage its position while it can, says Asiamoney, a sister publication to Euromoney FXNews.

  • Don't underestimate the potential of the yen carry trade

    Published: 20 Mar 2012 | Spot

    The carry trade is back in fashion, with the yen, the traditional funding currency of choice, at its heart. And history suggests it has a lot further to run.

  • Norges Bank meeting to offer NOK bulls buying opportunity

    Published: 13 Mar 2012 | Spot

    The Norges Bank is in an unenviable position as it grapples with the strength of its currency, but it is likely to have to put up with a strong krone as long as oil prices remain elevated.

  • Can Greece abandon the euro without quitting the EU?

    Published: 06 Mar 2012 | Spot | Regulation

    In the final part of this three-part series, the International Financial Law Review, a sister publication of EuromoneyFXNews, discusses the consequences of legally dubious unilateral Greek action to reinstate a national currency without treaty reform agreed by all 27 member states.

  • What would trigger a Greek euro exit?

    Published: 05 Mar 2012 | Regulation

    In the second part of this three-part series, the International Financial Law Review, a sister publication of EuromoneyFXNews, asks the following question. While the threat of devastating bank runs should act as a huge deterrent for a country to attempt an intentional exit from the euro, what would happen if a sovereign default were to cause bank runs to happen anyway?

  • How could Greece leave the euro?

    Published: 02 Mar 2012 | Regulation

    In a three-part series, EuromoneyFXNews will provide an in-depth analysis, first published by sister-publication, International Financial Law Review, of how a country's exit from the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) would transpire and the relevant legal constraints that would govern the sequence of events.