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Rising Libor Rate – Would That Boost USD’s Positive Flow

EURO zone’s Sovereign debt crisis concerns are escalated more trouble in the Forex market after the announcement of take over of Cordoba saving bank by the Bank of Spain. It is trying to save the cause of weakness of the country’s saving bank. The failure of saving banks leads to the weakness pressure on the funding market along with US dollar cost also seems to be risen. The cost of funding ultimately depends on the decision taken by the Central Bank on the merging proposal of all the four Spanish banks facing debt crisis.

LIBOR-OIS are providing signals of the financial need of the bank’s to each other where as currency pair EUR/USD cross-currency basis are demanding for the US Dollars rise. They are hoping for the liquidity that seems to be provided by the Central Bank of Spain. Since from past ten years consecutive five LIBOR rose rallies along with the US Dollars rise to three times as suggested by the LIBOR that we are still hoping for some great news from the US Dollar ends this year also. Although we know the fact of the financial crisis is the cost of funding along with its availability is the primary cause that begins from the past year that is 2007.

The Spain’s problem estimated a cost of almost 35 billion euro currency spending in the take over that may rise a hike on financial trouble over Spain. To fix the financial trouble the Central Bank has started taking measures on the merging process of four Spanish banks. The news of the market says about the Caja de Ahorros bank is planning to become a country’s fifth largest bank since many days from past. The IMF said on the behalf of Spain that the country is in under-pressure as fiscal consolidations needs to be speed up to regain its past budget structure rate.

As we are seeing that Spain is going through many troubles at once that is economic concerns along with Bank’s financial trouble that are leading to the weakness in country’s economy, huge fiscal deficits with low economic growth and external insecurity of finance. The IMF government has provide a hope to the Spain for taking good measures that will ultimately leads to the regain from the economic and financial trouble of the country.

In the past three month there was a rise seen in the LIBOR rate which rose for eleven consecutive days and reaches to the highest level yesterday since past year that is 2009. There was a negativity shown in the EUR/USD currency pair chart of cross-currency basis which indicates the demand of US dollars is still in strong position from the European banks. The Central bank have to take measure to increment the liquidity in the market because it was anticipated in the Global financial market the situation of money market will get worse as the time goes on.

Fed government has reintroduced the currency swapping with major Central banks along with ECB’s/EU/IMF from the past two week’s but we are not sure about the Fed that it will use it until the LIBOR rise more than the current status.

The Positive Qualities Of Forex Trading

Forex trading involves the exchange or trade of currencies from various countries. The currencies are traded against one another. To give you a better understanding of the principles of forex trading a perfect example would be to take the Euro which is the currency of Europe and then trade it against the US dollar which is the currency of the United States. Forex trading is done by buying the Euro while at the same time, selling the US dollar.

In forex trading, a trader selects a pair of currencies or a currency pair that is expected to change in value. When that change in value occurs, a trade is placed accordingly. For example, a trader buys 2,000 Euros at the cost of 2,400 US dollars. As time goes by due to many factors affecting the global market, the value of the Euro continues to rise above the value of the US dollar. At this time the value of the 2,000 Euro that the trader has procured earlier will amount to more than the 2,400 US dollars that he bought it for. At this point if the trader chooses to end the trade then he is set to earn money from his forex trading. Forex trading is done through a market maker or a broker. A trader can place an order over the internet and them the broker will relay this order to fill your position on the trade.

Forex trading is a 24-hour market all over the world. This gives the trader more opportunities to engage in great trading deals at any time of the day or night. Forex trading also offers high liquidity which means that an asset can be converted into cash in no time at all without any deductions on the price. Large amounts of money can be moved in and out of foreign currencies with very little change on the price in forex trading.

Forex trading has a very minimal transaction cost. The cost of the transaction in forex trading is usually incorporated into the price. This is called the spread which is the variation between the selling and buying price of a currency.

Forex trading gives traders the opportunity to trade using only leverage. Leverage is the capacity to trade an amount of money in the market that is actually higher than what is in the account of the trader. A 50 to 1 leverage means that a trader can trade $50 for every 1 dollar that is in his account. Leverage means that forex trading can be done even at a minimal capital.