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Japan Shares Jump Most in Four Years
September 9th, 2015
Possibility of more stimulus from Beijing boosts sentiment Stocks in Japan jumped the most in more than four years Wednesday, shaking off unease about slowing growth in China amid a tentative rebound in Chinese stocks. The region’s shares ...
China FX reserves fall record $93.9 bln in Aug as central bank supports yuan
September 7th, 2015
Global investors are bracing for data this week that could show a big drop in China‘s foreign exchange reserves as the central bank steps up its intervention to stabilise the yuan currency after its shock devaluation last month. China ...
Bye Bye Brazil
September 7th, 2015
For about a decade there, Brazil was the Latin American country that got it right. Under a socialist but apparently reasonable government they kept their budgets under control, managed the population shift from farm to city, and developed some ...
Nerves ahead of US jobs bring down Asian stocks
September 4th, 2015
Asian stocks declined on the final trading day of the week, as investors awaited the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for August that may play a crucial role in the Federal Reserve‘s decision about when to lift interest rates. A ...
ECB: Monetary policy decisions
September 3rd, 2015
September 3, 2015: At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at ...
IMF Note on Global Prospects and Policy Challenges
September 3rd, 2015
The Following executive summary is from a note by the Staff of the IMF prepared for the September 4-5, 2015 G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Ankara, Turkey. Global growth remains moderate, reflecting a further slowdown ...
The Current Global Financial Crisis
September 3rd, 2015
During the last month global markets has been roiled by the financial crisis that emanated from China, but propagated to other parts of the world. To put things into perspective, during the month of August more than $5 trillion ...
Gold forecast to drop to $800 an ounce in 2016
September 3rd, 2015
As investors are turning cold towards gold, prices are headed for significant declines, according to a bank The overall sentiment towards the yellow metal will turn increasingly bearish next year and the prices are likely to hit below $1,000 ...
Asian Shares Rise, China Markets Closed for Holiday
September 3rd, 2015
U.S. markets regained some footing overnight Asian markets were mostly higher on Thursday, led by a strong performance in Japanese stocks after U.S. markets restored some stability to a region rocked by volatility. Japan’s Nikkei was 1.5% higher at around midday, ...
CME Group Volume Averaged 16.3 Million Contracts per Day in August 2015, Up 25 Percent from August 2014
September 2nd, 2015
Equity index average daily volume increased 61 percent Energy average daily volume rose 46 percent, as WTI futures and options reached record 1.8 million contracts on August 31 Eurodollar options average daily volume increased 39 percent, driven by 124 ...
