What Drives Currency Markets

What Drives Currency Markets takes the reader on a complete tour of the instigators of change within the foreign exchange market. Beginning by placing the FX market in the centre of the global financial system. It moves on to explain where volatility originates, and what the major factors of change are including economic developments and short term considerations. The book discusses what makes a great currency and whether currency collapses can ever be predicted. The influence of the Euro is emphasised throughout the whole text and the author concludes by asking whether the Euro will succeed or fail as a currency.What Drives Currency Markets is essential reading for dealers, analysts, newcomers to the financial marketsm and finance professionals across the board who need to maintain their edge at the forefront of developments in international finacial markets. analyses the true influencers of currency movements which FX market participants concentrate on gives readers what they really need to know - the facts of what happens in the dealing room includes an analysis of the non-economic factors that need watching looks at the influence of the Fed and EMU on FX markets essential for newcomers to international financial markets