Friday, September 7, 2012

EUR/USD nears 1.28 on ECB bond buying program

FXstreet.com (San Francisco) - The Euro has accelerated in the last hour against the Dollar and following the US employment data the EUR/USD has jumped around 100 pips from 1.2685 to reach highest level since May 22nd at 1.2775. 

http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?storyid=66e94ca2-c527-48a4-b1f0-65243a38740e

The euro has strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar, as the European Central Bank's bond-buying plans continued to please the markets...   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19516323


Since there have been tens of thousands of lawsuits filed internally in Germany with its constitutional court alleging the ESM is illegal, it was only a matter of time before the Germans decided to sue the ECB as well for its "unlimited" bond buying. The time has arrived. From Bloomberg:
  • TILLICH SUPPORTS LEGAL STEPS AGAINST ECB BOND BUYING: WELT
  • TILLICH SAYS ECB BOND BUYING SIGNALS EFSF, ESM NOT ENOUGH: WELT
  • TILLICH: ECB MANDATE SHOULD NOT INCL. UNLIMIT. BOND BUYING:WELT
Perhaps all those rumors of the Bundesbank's death were, as we expected, rather exaggerated.