FXCM Research Team

As its name implies, a currency swap is the exchange of currencies between two parties.

Brazil's currency, the Real (BRL), was launched in 1994. It marked a return to the denomination of the country's original currency, also known as the real.

The global financial system is made up of a series of institutions and capital markets that has come to be known informally and collectively among investors as "the market." The market can be understood as the collective global arena for buying and selling financial and physical assets. The Ever-Moving Market While integrally linked to what economists call the "real economy," which represents the sale and purchase of physical goods and…

Austerity refers to actions taken by a government, to reduce its budget deficit using a combination of spending cuts or tax rises.

Support and resistance levels provide forex traders with a valuable tool they can use in their trading. By learning about these levels, investors can obtain a better understanding of what is going on in the markets. In their most basic sense, support levels denote prices that a currency will not likely fall below, while resistance levels indicate prices the currency will probably not exceed. By analysing these key levels, investors…

A fiscal cliff is any series of potential economic events and factors that could combine to cause a severe and sudden economic downturn.

There is a strong correlation between oil prices and the performance of the US economy, with rising crude oil prices pushing up core inflation indicators.

Forex traders can utilize Japanese candlesticks to gauge the market sentiment surrounding a particular currency pair or security.

In June 2016, British voters chose for their county to leave the European Union (aka Brexit), but what does that mean for the U.K. and the EU nations?

The global currency markets suffered sharp fluctuations in 2014, as numerous developments combined to help create intense volatility.