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S&P 500 Dividends Poised for Years More Growth
July 17th, 2014
Dividends paid by Standard & Poor’s 500 Index companies will climb almost as much in the next five years as they did during the last four, according to Rod Smyth, RiverFront Investment Group LLC’s chief investment strategist. The comparison ...
ECB will reveal unprecedented amount of data after bank stress tests
July 17th, 2014
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday laid out plans to publish a trove of data on individual banks – ranging from measures of their leverage to a standard level of non-performing loans – on individual banks when it ...
Europe Stocks Slide With Russia’s Ruble as Gold Advances
July 17th, 2014
European stocks dropped while gold and the yen rallied as new sanctions sent Russia’s ruble and bonds plunging amid efforts to curb violence in Ukraine. Chinese shares fell as new offerings locked up funds and a potential onshore-bond default ...
Indonesia Ex-Central Banker Gets Jail for Bank Bailout Graft
July 17th, 2014
Former Bank Indonesia deputy governor Budi Mulya was sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption, the latest high-profile conviction that shows how policy making in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is undermined by graft. Mulya was handed a 500 ...
Australia repeals controversial carbon tax
July 17th, 2014
Australia’s government repealed a much-maligned carbon tax on the nation’s worst greenhouse gas polluters on Thursday, ending years of contention over a measure that became political poison for the lawmakers who imposed it. The Senate voted 39 to 32 ...
Technical Analysis USD/CHF jumps higher
July 17th, 2014
Technical Analysis USD/CHF 17/07/2014 Pair’s Outlook As there was no opposition from the 55-day SMA and weekly R1, the U.S. Dollar continued to gain ground. But further advancement is expected to be more difficult, considering that there is the ...
Wall Street stock futures decline
July 17th, 2014
U.S. stock futures were seeing slight declines early Thursday. Dow futures were off 0.02%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.33% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.26%. In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index fell 0.06% to 15, 370.26. Wall Street closed higher ...
Technical Analysis USD/JPY stumbled over monthly PP
July 17th, 2014
Technical Analysis USD/JPY 17/07/2014 Pair’s Outlook Despite USD/JPY closing above 101.61/54 yesterday, the resistance represented by the 55-day SMA and monthly PP appears to be unwilling to let the price to advance further. And while the near-term technical indicators ...
Technical Analysis EUR/USD targets 1.35
July 17th, 2014
Technical Analysis EUR/USD for 17/07/2014 Pair’s Outlook As it turned out, EUR/USD did not find enough demand at 1.3568/63, meaning the sell-off should now extend at least down to 1.35—the major support level at the moment. From there the ...
Technical Analysis GBP/USD wallows beneath 1.72
July 17th, 2014
Technical Analysis GBP/USD 17/07/2014 Pair’s Outlook Although at the beginning of the week it seemed that GBP/USD has finally received a strong upward impetus after a test of the 2009 peak, the pair remains unable to surpass this month’s ...
