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Peter Frank, global head G10 & Asia FX Strategy at BBVA, says that the foreign exchange market is too large to be effectively manipulated. more...

Slovakia says yes to the expanded bailout fund, but this strategist says the euro's fun is pretty much over. more...

The euro zone will be in a recession before the end of the year, an economist from the Royal Bank of Scotland told CNBC Monday. more...

The Australian dollar has been having a rough ride, and this strategist says there's more to come. more...

The euro has taken quite a fall as worries about the debt crisis there have grown, and this strategist says there is more to come. more...

"Clearly Greece is priced for default and that has been the case for some time. The thing with Greece is: when it defaults, and how it is allowed to default, to avoid contagion in its default," Adrian Schmidt, FX strategist at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, told CNBC. more...

With all the action on the Continent, the British pound has been out of the spotlight. It's time for a look - and you might not like it. more...

It's not enough that the German court gave mixed signals to the euro. Now the technical patterns aren't looking so good either. more...

The Swiss National Bank and the German courts have changed the outlook for the euro - but it's still cloudy. more...

Worries about Western Europe have spilled into countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the region's fate is tightly linked to that of its main exporting market, Wike Groenenberg, head of CEEMEA strategy at Citi, told CNBC on Wednesday. more...

"We have been seeing growth coming down for some time already. We are probably going into negative territory around spring of next year; it is not for certain, but that is the most likely scenario," Roger Nightingale, strategist at RDN Associates, told CNBC. more...

"True European fiscal union is something we will probably not see for another ten or twenty years," Alan Capper, head of credit strategy at Lloyds Banking Group told CNBC. He added that some countries within Europe were dealing with "generation long" economic problems and that some members of...

"As far as I can see, this deal is specifically aimed at providing support for companies that have suffered through the strength of the yen. That seems a far more sensible thing to do then actually try and take on the strength of the yen itself," Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at BNY...

"I think the German PMI announcement will have an impact on spread widening, because investors will see it as an indication that the world is slowing, Germany is slowing, and in general, risk is increasing," Adrian Schmidt, FX strategist at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, told CNBC. more...

"I think the markets are pretty much pricing a zero growth outlook for global GDP, which is a lot weaker than our own economists are forecasting," Ian Scott, chief global & european strategist at Nomura, told CNBC. more...

"If the markets believe progress is being made, they will give you enough time to do make changes. But at the moment you have got this divide between politicians, you have not got a consistent message," Charles Diebel, head of market strategy at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, told CNBC. more...

With the 10-year Treasury yield reaching lows not seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, some experts argue that a volatile economic climate with a recession is now likely. more...

The European short-selling ban is necessary, Richard Martin, chief strategist at Julius Baer, told CNBC. "I think this is the sort of move we need at the moment. The swings we are seeing in equity markets are absolutely wild, and it's fear. It's not actually fundamentals which are driving this,"...

"We think there's a big difference in the current situation in France than that which caused the downgrade in the U.S.," Mark Schofield, global head of interest rate strategy at Citi, told CNBC. "We don't think there's an immediate ratings risk, and I think any further ratings action will be...

"Over the long term we've seen that U.S. politics really does not bode well for the future," David Bloom, global head of foreign exchange strategy at HSBC told CNBC. "If the economy were to slow further, there's no chance of a fiscal package... and this is not good news for the dollar at all and...