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Yen climbs with Aussie and kiwi as Asian Stocks Mixed
March 8th, 2017
Japan shares drop while Hong Kong equities gain after data Yen climbs with Aussie and kiwi; crude slumps below $53 Asian stocks were mixed as investors continued to assess the staying power of a rally that brought global equities ...
Where investors are looking for opportunities right now?
March 6th, 2017
Stock market investors have plenty to cheer about, with the Trump rally adding to the big gains of the Obama years, but it’s also natural to worry that U.S. stocks have more room to go down than up. So ...
Euro to Dollar forecast for the week
March 6th, 2017
Euro Rally on Cards if ECB Officials Forecast Eurozone Growth Pickup This Week The new week finds the EUR USD exchange rate above the 1.06 level, quoted at 1.06026 at 07:30 on Monday 6th March. Last week saw the ...
Central banks and gold
March 5th, 2017
The very near future is likely to see a sea-change in central bankers’ attitude to the gold allocation in their reserves. The failure of G20 monetary policy since the financial crisis is causing a general rethink, which may eventually ...
Why All Exchange Rates Are Bad
March 2nd, 2017
The economics of exchange rates can be tough sledding. Every now and then, I post on the bulletin board beside my office a quotation from Kenneth Kasa back in 1995: “If you asked a random sample of economists to ...
Global Stock Rally Shifts to Asia After U.S. Highs: Markets Wrap
March 2nd, 2017
Japan’s Topix at highest since December 2015 as yen slumps Dollar climbs as Fed official supports rate hike ‘soon’ The bulls are gaining momentum as the global equity rally stretched to Asia. Tokyo shares jumped to the highest level ...
Institutional Investors Shift Trading Desk Spending to Technology and Fixed Income
March 1st, 2017
Institutional investors in 2016 increased budgets to fixed-income trading desks in preparation for shifts in the interest-rate environment, and continued to ramp up IT budgets to keep pace with the dramatic changes technology is triggering in financial markets around ...
Dollar, U.S. futures hold gains, Topix leads markets in Asia
March 1st, 2017
Dollar, U.S. futures hold gains, Topix leads markets in Asia Treasuries drop as odds jump for U.S. rate hike in March Dollar and equity bulls found little cause for concern in Donald Trump’s address to Congress despite a lack ...
5 Reasons to be excited about European Stocks
February 27th, 2017
After years in the doldrums, European stocks seem poised to break out of their trading rut and possibly outperform the U.S. equity market this year. Eurozone politics and sluggish economic growth have not been kind to European stocks in ...
Global (economic) warming
February 26th, 2017
If the economy was on its uppers, Trumpenomics could be reasonably compared with Reaganomics. But that is not the case. The economy is operating close to capacity, ….any further fiscal and monetary expansion will begin to create …. economic ...
