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USD/CHF targets down-trend at 0.863
April 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook After an explicitly bearish week there is a fairly high chance of a correction. But even if it does take place, the rally is unlikely to drag on for long, considering there are tough resistances at 0.8813/12 ...
USD/JPY struggles to rally
April 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook In order for USD/JPY to preserve a bullish bias, it is required to rebound from 101.27/19, the key support area that consists of the rising trend-line, 200-day SMA and 50% retracement of the November-December up-move. However, for ...
GBP/USD finds support at 1.67
April 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Although GBP/USD received a strong bearish impetus after a test of the February’s high, today the currency pair is not keen on declining, as it seems to have found support at 1.6704 (weekly PP). Nevertheless, the downside ...
EUR/USD starts weak with bearish gap
April 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Friday’s price action and a large downside gap confirmed an assumption that there is a formidable resistance area between 1.39 and 1.395. Accordingly, while there could be a rally today in order to cover the distance between ...
How about… A Global Tax on the Superrich?
April 14th, 2014
Bill Gates washes his own dishes, as we learned this year from his Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but he’s certainly not trying to save money. The world’s richest person is doing everything in his power to decrease ...
Putin Could Stop Selling Gas to Ukraine. Here’s Why He Won’t
April 14th, 2014
For a time this week, Vladimir Putin looked ready to turn off the gas. In an April 10 letter to 18 European heads of state, he warned that Russia could “completely or partially cease gas deliveries” to Ukraine, in ...
JPMorgan Chase Earns 19 Percent Less to Start the Year
April 14th, 2014
JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the largest but no longer the most profitable U.S. bank, announced a 19 percent decline in first-quarter earnings this morning, with weaker income from trading and sluggish mortgage activity. Shares fell as much as 3.7 percent ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
April 14th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec license to operate as Administrative Services Providers (ASP): Profecto Management and Consultancy Limited Equation Corporate Services Ltd ...
Chinese Property Developers Stake Out Shares In Commercial Banks, Intensifying Systemic Risks
April 14th, 2014
Major Chinese property developers have in recent months been buying increasingly large stakes in regional banks, posing risk that an unravelling in the real estate market could leave both lenders and builders confronting losses big enough to pose a ...
Is Wal-Mart Heading to An Organic Empire To Fuel Its Wild Oats Rollout?
April 14th, 2014
Wal-Mart’s bold entry into the booming organic food market sets a lofty goal for the company: offering a wide range of products bearing the coveted USDA certified organic seal at stores across the United States. But experts say that ...
