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Elliott Wave Analysis: AUDUSD Looking Quite Bullish
August 9th, 2017
Elliott Wave Analysis: AUDUSD Looking Quite Bullish AUDUSD is trading bullish since start of May, when price completed a bigger correction. We saw it as a triangle correction (visible on the daily chart). That being said, we are ...
PwC to pay $1 Million to settle audit violations
August 3rd, 2017
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it censured and imposed a $1 million civil penalty against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for violations in its examination and audit of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated’s compliance with the Securities ...
Trader ordered to pay hundreds of thousands dollars in “spoofing” incidents
August 2nd, 2017
CFTC Orders New York Trader Simon Posen to Pay a $635,000 Civil Monetary Penalty and Permanently Bans Him from Trading in CFTC-Regulated Markets for Spoofing in the Gold, Silver, Copper, and Crude Oil Futures Markets Order Finds that Posen ...
Dollar extends modest bounce from 15-month lows
August 2nd, 2017
The dollar extended its modest bounce from 15-month lows on Wednesday, benefiting from a pause in selling of the battered currency as investors begin positioning for key events this week, notably Friday’s U.S. employment report. The dollar index against ...
Why economists cannot forecast recessions
July 28th, 2017
The purpose of this article is to draw the widest attention to the chronic inability of the economic establishment to forecast recessions. Next time you hear an economist make a prediction on mainstream media, your default assumption should ...
7 Cryptocurrency Predictions From the Experts
July 28th, 2017
Fortune convened some top cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bankers, and others to chat about the future of digital money at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo. last week. A select group met at the Aspen Institute for a ...
Yen advanced, Euro and Australian dollar rose
July 25th, 2017
Asian equities were mixed ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy decision and as investors sifted through earnings from companies including Alphabet Inc. Oil rose while the dollar resumed declines. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fluctuated near a 10-year ...
Notable moves in markets and some key events coming up this week
July 24th, 2017
Stocks Mixed Before Earnings, Fed; Yen Pares Gains Stocks in Asia were mixed at the start of a week packed with earnings results and a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision. Oil remained below $46 a barrel before an OPEC meeting, ...
How can the Fed possibly unwind QE?
July 21st, 2017
There are currently two important items on the Fed’s wish list. The first is to restore interest rates to more normal levels, and the second is to unwind the Fed’s balance sheet, which has expanded since the great financial ...
The logic of a modern gold standard
July 14th, 2017
The logic of a modern gold standard In last week’s Insight, I analysed the current geopolitical situation and concluded that it was now in the interest of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to break from the US dollar completely, ...
