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Stocks: In need of a break?
May 14th, 2014
Wall Street might need a break. The past few days have seen investors push stock markets to all-time highs, but it looks like the pace could slow Wednesday. U.S. stock futures were barely moving ahead of the opening bell, ...
Asian Stocks Advance After U.S. Gauges Rally to Records
May 13th, 2014
Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark gauge on course for its biggest increase in seven weeks, as investors weighed earnings and after U.S. equity indexes climbed to records. Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s second-biggest carmaker, jumped 5.1 percent after ...
Australian GMO ‘Contamination’ Case Could Have International Repercussions
May 9th, 2014
Australian farmers Steve Marsh and Mick Baxter grew up together, were once schoolmates, and have grown crops on their neighboring farms for years. But the emergence of GMO technology has driven a wedge between the long-time friends, leaving them ...
FSA signs cooperation with the Bank of Thailand
May 9th, 2014
The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the Bank of Thailand signed the Exchange of Letters for Cooperation (EOL) on May 9, 2014. The EOL provides a formal basis for ongoing cooperation between the two authorities in sound financial ...
Draghi Sets Clock Ticking for June Stimulus by ECB
May 9th, 2014
Mario Draghi has given himself a month to craft a new fix to the European Central Bank’s deflation angst. Cutting the euro area’s benchmark interest rate to a record tops the list of options for the ECB President after ...
USD/JPY underpinned by 200-day SMA
May 8th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook As many of the supports have already given up, it is now 200-day SMA’s task to revive a bullish momentum of USD/JPY. For now the moving average seems to be successful at keeping the exchange rate afloat. ...
Toyota profit nearly doubles to $17.8bn
May 8th, 2014
Japanese carmaker Toyota has seen its profits nearly double, boosted by the yen’s weakness and cost cutting. It made a net profit of 1.82 trillion yen ($17.8bn; £10.5bn) in the year to 31 March, up from 962bn yen a ...
China Buys Friends and Influences Nations
May 6th, 2014
If you can’t beat them, outspend them. That seems to be the thinking behind a huge new infrastructure investment fund being promoted by China as an alternative to established international lending agencies. It’s a terrible rationale for starting a ...
USD/JPY unable to breach monthly PP
April 30th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook USD/JPY seems to have once again failed at 102.72/56 (monthly PP and 100-day SMA), thereby calling into question the currency pair’s ability to recover in the long run. Still, being that the key supports remain intact, such ...
USD/JPY to re-test 100-day SMA
April 29th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The strong upward impulse seen yesterday confirmed that USD/JPY still deserves a bullish outlook. Now the pair is facing the 100-day SMA and monthly PP. Last week this supply area prevented further appreciation of the U.S. Dollar ...
