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Wall Street Bond Dealers Whipsawed on Bearish Treasuries Bet
April 22nd, 2014
Betting against U.S. government debt this year is turning out to be a fool’s errand. Just ask Wall Street’s biggest bond dealers. While the losses that their economists predicted have yet to materialize, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Citigroup ...
Fannie, Freddie cut housing-market forecasts for 2014
April 22nd, 2014
On the heels of a choppy first quarter, federally controlled mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have cut their forecasts for the U.S. housing market’s performance in 2014. Doug Duncan, Fannie’s FNMA chief economist, said Monday that he ...
High-Frequency Fight Starts in Foreign Exchange
April 17th, 2014
Foreign-exchange dealers say they have the solution to the high-frequency trades eroding banks’ profits across financial markets. A currency-dealing platform known as ParFX, established in 2011 by firms from Deutsche Bank AG to Citigroup Inc., was approached last month ...
A star abroad, India central bank boss riles bond traders at home
April 17th, 2014
Since taking the helm of India’s central bank, Raghuram Rajan’s agenda to reform markets has put the noses of Mumbai bond traders firmly out of joint by upending practices that provided them with a relatively secure rate of return. ...
GBP/USD attempts to surpass Fed high
April 17th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook After an eventless beginning of the week GBP/USD soared 100 pips and it is already testing a cluster of resistances around the recent Feb high. Should the bulls gain an upper hand, the rally will be expected ...
EUR/USD supported by monthly PP
April 17th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The latest downward momentum did not prove to be strong enough to push the price beneath the monthly PP. Instead EUR/USD seems to be recovering from 1.3816/15, which could mean a test of the down-trend resistance line ...
ACB Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Vietnam Fraud, Tax Dodge
April 16th, 2014
Nguyen Duc Kien, a founder of Asia Commercial Bank, pleaded not guilty to fraudulently taking assets, tax evasion and other crimes that partly caused losses the Vietnamese lender estimates at 8.67 trillion dong ($411 million). The People’s Court of ...
EUR/USD set to decline to 1.37
April 16th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook At the moment EUR/USD is testing the support at 1.3816/15 represented by the monthly and weekly pivot points. If this level is breached, the next significant concentration of demand is expected to be at 1.3787—20 and 55-day ...
Extra Rights Should Mean Extra Responsibilities
April 15th, 2014
Ordinary people have suffered huge disruption to their lives through a loss of jobs & opportunity because of the colossal mistakes of self-declared ‘Masters of the Universe’ chasing ever-bigger financial rewards within the banking industry. To add insult to ...
EU lawmakers to complete financial system overhaul
April 15th, 2014
The European Parliament is set to approve legislation that will complete the biggest overhaul of the bloc’s financial system since the introduction of the euro currency. Lawmakers in Strasbourg on Tuesday are slated to sign off on the establishment ...
