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| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • The difficulties faced by the EU in dealing with eurozone countries’ problems are intractable and FX market participants are concerned about this • The central banks of most countries have limited ability to intervene successfully in the FX markets • Regulators’ attempts to pull all trading on to exchanges are misguided when it comes to FX markets and there are limited opportunities to educate them on this • Regulatory pressure for transparency is not necessarily a good thing: transparency does not necessarily breed market stability |
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JK, Amundi The most important thing in the economic background to the foreign exchange market is that the Federal Reserve has started quantitative easing. It’s a very important signal because there’s not much that the bond market can continue to do to help in easing monetary conditions in the domestic US economy. The euro has already dropped to a very low level.