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GBP Is A Bad Apple While Dollar Is Squeezed
July 8th, 2014
Not the ideal start to a week where many expected more enthusiasms being expressed across the various asset classes, especially after last week’s stronger US employment headline print. Maybe the market is priming itself for the summer doldrums? The ...
Europe’s Debt Wish
July 8th, 2014
Eurozone leaders continue to debate how best to reinvigorate economic growth, with French and Italian leaders now arguing that the eurozone’s rigid “fiscal compact” should be loosened. Meanwhile, the leaders of the eurozone’s northern member countries continue to push ...
Horizon Software to Launch Chinese Options Trading System
July 8th, 2014
Horizon Software, a Paris-based provider of front-end trading software, is planning the launch of an options trading system for the Chinese market, set to launch in the fourth quarter of 2014. As China is about to launch equity index ...
Yen Holds Biggest Gain in a Week on Stock Drop
July 8th, 2014
The yen remained higher after a gain yesterday that was the biggest in a week, as U.S. stock futures point to declines in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and after Japan reported a bigger-than-expected current-account surplus. The currency ...
Technical Analysis Gold – Indecision Resurfaces Under $1320
July 8th, 2014
Technical Analysis Gold for Tuesday, July 8, 2014 After pushing higher to a three month high above $1330 last week, gold has now just eased a little lower back to below $1320 and is showing more signs of indecision again ...
Australia 200 – Not Getting ‘Carried Away’ Above 5500
July 8th, 2014
Australia 200 for Tuesday, July 8, 2014 So will the Australia 200 Index be able to maintain its break through the key resistance level at 5500 having enjoyed a solid week last week? It reversed a little yesterday after ...
Technical Analysis AUD/USD – Resistance at 0.9425 Looms Large Again
July 8th, 2014
Technical Analysis AUD/USD for Tuesday, July 8, 2014 To start this week the Australian dollar is slowly trying to edge higher and regain some of the lost ground from late last week. The Australian dollar enjoyed a solid surge ...
Piketty with Chinese Characteristics
July 4th, 2014
In his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism aggravates inequality through several mechanisms, all of which are based on the notion that r (the return on capital) falls less quickly than g (growth ...
Rupee retreats from lows as cbank steps up dollar purchases
July 4th, 2014
Rupee was trading at 59.80/81 versus its close of 59.73/74 as the central bank steps down dollar purchases while a fall in the domestic sharemarket also hurts. Dealers say the central bank has been spotted buying dollars sporadically via ...
Direct won-yuan trading on the way
July 3rd, 2014
While North Korea is set to top the agenda at talks later today between Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, increasingly close bilateral economic relations won’t be far behind. There are two main items on ...
