The Trader's Guide to the Euro Area
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"This is an excellent compendium for both the newcomer andexperienced practitioner in European financial markets. DavidPowell covers the ground from the basics to the intricacies of thepresent crisis of the euro area, and provides a trader active inthese markets, in a concise way, all the necessary backgroundinformation." --Thomas Mayer, senior advisor and former chief economist,Deutsche Bank "A comprehensive, compact, easily accessibleand readable book. A must-read for those who want to get anoverview of trading-related aspects of the euro area." --Klaus Wohlrabe, coordinator of the Ifo Surveys and deputyhead of the Business Cycle and Survey Department, IfoInstitute "There was a time when investors in theglobal financial markets did not devote a lot of their attention tothe monthly trends in euro-area economic indicators. The reason forthat was simple - U.S. economic data was the principal driver ofglobal financial market trends. That is clearly no longer the case.The spillover effects that the European sovereign debt crisis havehad on the rest of the world have made it critically important forinvestors to understand the economic and political backdrops in theeuro area, and to stay on top of the latest economic and financialmarket trends in the member countries of the monetary union. Upuntil now there was no easily-accessible guidebook to helpinvestors navigate through the myriad gobs of data coming out ofthe euro area as a whole, and the individual member countries inparticular. David Powell's book is the first serious work toaddress these issues, and it is done masterfully. It provides anexcellent overview of all key euro-area economic indicators ofwhich data watchers need to stay abreast. Investors who want tostay ahead of the game will find David Powell's book bothcomprehensive and accessible - clearly the most up-to-date text forthose who want to get a better handle of euro-area economic andfinancial market trends." --Michael Rosenberg, former head of internationalfixed-income research, Merrill Lynch, and former head offoreign-exchange research, Deutsche BankMore details
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David Powell (London, UK) is a Senior Economist at Bloomberg LP based in London where he writes the daily Bloomberg Brief on economic developments in Europe, as well as publish a weekly Bloomberg Currency Chart Book with analysis of foreign-exchange market, forecast macroeconomic variables for the euro-area and G-10 exchange rates, present views on the European economy and currencies to Bloomberg clients around the globe, write real-time analysis of European economic indicators for Bloomberg First Word, and discuss economic and financial market developments on Bloomberg TV. Prior to this David was a G-10 Currency Strategist, Vice President at Bank of America - Merrill Lynch where he forecasted G-10 FX rates with primary responsibility for Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, presented the views of the currency strategy team to the European client base and internally, developed trade recommendations based on fundamental and technical analysis, contributed analytical pieces to the weekly and monthly publications of the global FX strategy group, wrote morning commentary on the currency markets and verbally delivered to the trading floor and analysed high frequency economic data for the FX traders and sales force. He holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics, where he wrote his dissertation on the creation of monetary union in Europe, and a bachelor's degree from New York University.
