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UPDATE: Emerging market currencies and Latam stocks
June 4th, 2020
Brazil’s real surged on Wednesday after industrial output in the country fell less than expected, while Latin American stocks surged as major global economies were seen recovering from the coronavirus’ economic rout. The real rose 2.4% to a near ...
European stocks advanced on Monday; The biggest mover in European indices
June 1st, 2020
European stocks advanced on Monday as lockdown measures ease across the continent, while protests continue throughout the U.S. following the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, last week. London’s FTSE 100 added 1.4% in early trade ...
A resident of Denmark charged in $1.5 million Forex fraud scheme
May 25th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform about the filing of an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging defendant Casper Mikkelsen, a/k/a “Carsten Nielsen,” a/k/a ...
Stocks in Europe gained; Dollar climbed against its major peers
May 25th, 2020
Stocks in Europe gained along with U.S. equity-index futures, while Asian benchmarks were mixed as investors weighed more signs of economies reopening around the world against the rise in U.S.-China tensions. Health-care and leisure shares led the advance in ...
Unintended consequences of monetary inflation
May 15th, 2020
“In short, the Fed is committed to rescue businesses from the greatest economic catastrophe since the great depression and probably even greater than that, to fund the US Government’s rocketing budget deficits, fund the maintenance of domestic consumption ...
Oil prices boosted by Saudi Arabia pledge to deepen output cut
May 12th, 2020
Oil futures rose on Tuesday, boosted by an unexpected commitment from Saudi Arabia to deepen production cuts in June in a bid to help drain the glut in the global market that has built up as the coronavirus pandemic ...
Geopolitics post COVID-19
May 7th, 2020
Before the coronavirus caused governments to impose lockdowns, whole economies, markets and even currencies were already on course to be destroyed by a vicious downturn in bank lending at a time of contracting trade and record debt. The ...
A primer for gold newbies
April 7th, 2020
The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become suddenly apparent, hastened by the spread of the coronavirus. For ...
The US Dollar has risen in value this year
April 7th, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has caused millions of people to lose their jobs and brought the economy to its knees but it has not dethroned the American dollar. To the contrary, the currency has risen in ...
Gold Is Now “Unobtanium”
March 30th, 2020
The Wall Street Journal just published the kind of article gold bugs dream of seeing in the mainstream press. Here’s an excerpt: “Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush Epic shortage spooks doomsday preppers and bankers alike; ‘Unaffordium and unobtanium.’ ...