Let me welcome You to the world of fundamental analysis. Did you ever wonder why the American dollar is weakening? Or why the price of gold or oil fluctuates so much? Fundamental analysis explains how economic information from all around the world affects the prices of financial instruments. I hope to show You the beauty of analyzing macroeconomic information and what benefits it gives.

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Let me welcome You to the world of fundamental analysis. Did you ever wonder why the American dollar is weakening? Or why the price of gold or oil fluctuates so much?

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Currency trading has been known to the Word for ages and can be tracked down to the Middle East and Middle Ages.

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Currencies are known to societies for ages. Back in the old days, bartering was the first way of payment.

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A central bank, reserve bank or monetary authority, is an entity responsible for the monetary policy of its country or of a group of member states.

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In the last chapter, I listed the most important macroeconomic publications that describe the current state of the economy. Obviously, investors are very interested in the current market conditions.

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Publications that indirectly can be grouped under consumption indices are reports from the housing market, especially data regarding sales of existing and new homes.

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Publications that indirectly can be grouped under consumption indices are reports from the housing market, especially data regarding sales of existing and new homes.

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In order to make it easier for investors to analyze the condition of the whole economy, a bunch of indices describing the processes taking place in a country were created.

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Macroeconomic reports describing the economy as a whole are very important to analysts and investors.

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