JPY remains under fire, both vs the USD and on its crosses, after the BoJ decision and remarks afterwards werev taken as a sign that the next rate hike would be in March at the earliest
BOE caught the market flatfooted and this is reflected in EURGBP, which bounced off the major .8223 low to form a double bottom
I like to use this cross to give a clue to EURUSD and GBPUSD, the former finding some support out of a EURGBP bounce while GBPUSD struggles trying to regain its bid.
As the chart shows, resistance is between .8270-00.
Including today, there are only 3 full trading days until Xmas (Xmas Eve is generlly a half day).
This suggests position adjustments rather than adding to risk should dominate… this would have been the case the whole week if not for the Fed throwing a hand grenade at the market.
In any case, this should put a floor under the dollar with any setbacks seen as book squaring/position adjustments.
Fundamental Analysis, Central Banks playing Vegas and the Manipulation of Capital Markets Neo-Wicksell style has just brought us ahead of another and looming Global Credit Crisis.
Recently the WSJ reported that 70% of US Companies (but so about in EU) have released abnormal, unreal balance sheets. Beside that, particularly the EU the Net Debt to EBITDA is manipulated by capital players (funds and banks) so to increase the leverage and credit as values of their assets – to most specialists this has come to unsustainable levels now months already.
Total Debt For Rated U.S. Companies Reaches New High
The total debt load among non-financial US companies with assigned credit ratings from S&P Global Ratings reached a new record in the third quarter.
Combined debt in the third quarter among all rated non-financial companies rose about 0.5% to $8.453 trillion.
Collective debt has grown for US investment-grade companies in all non-financial sectors except information technology and consumer staples.