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Will Oil Prices Really Double in 2016?
November 26th, 2015
High uncertainty in future oil prices has suggested that over the course 2016, oil prices could as much as double, or halve. Low oil prices over the course of 2015 could lead to a resurgence of expensive oil, as ...
Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?
November 26th, 2015
A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. The US dollar has been rising against the rest of ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
Asia stocks mostly climb on ECB easing prospects
November 26th, 2015
Asian markets were mostly higher on Thursday on the prospect of fresh European stimulus even as new data reinforced expectations for tighter U.S. monetary policy. The euro traded above the $1.06 handle, rebounding after hitting a seven-and-a-half month low of $1.0565 ...
10 Forex Concepts You Need to Understand
November 25th, 2015
The foreign exchange (forex, FX for short) is the world’s most liquid financial market, with a daily turnover of $5.3 trillion(1). Each day, governments, multinational corporations, banks, investors and traders exchange currencies on the open market to facilitate ...
A stronger Banking Union: New measures to reinforce deposit protection and further reduce banking risks
November 25th, 2015
Today, the Commission has proposed a euro-area wide insurance scheme for bank deposits and has set out further measures to reduce remaining risks in the banking sector in parallel. The recent crisis has shown that large economic and financial ...
China Said to Ease Control on Brokers’ Proprietary Trading
November 25th, 2015
Regulator issued notice scrapping net long rule, people say CSRC cancels rules as stock market stabilizes after slump China has canceled a rule requiring brokerages to hold daily net long positions in their proprietary trading accounts as the nation’s ...
ECB Says Leverage Ratio Makes Banks More Stable
November 24th, 2015
Lenders have raised concerns new standard could prompt them to take more risk, offsetting benefits The European Central Bank said Monday that a leverage ratio requirement may tempt some banks to take more risk, but will still make them ...
ASX, Kospi maintain winning run; Fed-watch continues
November 23rd, 2015
Asian markets continued to trade mixed on Monday afternoon, following a rally on Wall Street last week as investors continue to look out for comments from central bankers on the trajectory of U.S. monetary policy. Major U.S. indices ended ...
China Has a $1.2 Trillion Ponzi Finance Problem
November 20th, 2015
Some 45% of new debt will be used to pay interest: Hua Chuang `Ponzi’ finance was seen by Hyman Minsky as unsustainable Chinese borrowers are taking on record amounts of debt to repay interest on their existing obligations, raising ...
