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Associations challenging crypto Ads ban to proceed with lawsuit
June 29th, 2018
Facebook’s recent decision to partially lift the ban on crypto ads will not stop a planned legal action against the measure. Crypto associations and businesses from several countries announced earlier this year their intentions to sue internet giants imposing ...
Update: European shares fall; Pan-European STOXX 600 and Germany’s trade-sensitive DAX were down
June 28th, 2018
Trade tensions and political concerns again weighed on European shares on Thursday as investors positioned for a potentially divisive European Union summit. Having clawed back some ground on Wednesday, the pan-European STOXX 600 and Germany’s trade-sensitive DAX were down ...
Singapore, Trade and Geopolitics
June 26th, 2018
The Western media was incredulous. The Donald had disregarded diplomacy, scuttled out of the G7 meeting in Canada without endorsing the G7 agreement, and ended up shaking hands with a previously avowed enemy in Singapore. The formally leisurely ...
Europe’s banks and industrial stocks sink as trade dispute deepens
June 26th, 2018
The latest episode in a trade dispute between the United States and other major economies sent European shares further into a funk on Monday with benchmarks down 0.8 to 1.2 percent and autos, basic resources and tech stocks the ...
The dollar fell to a two-week low against the yen on Monday; Investors steered from risk
June 25th, 2018
The dollar fell to a two-week low against the yen on Monday as a latest flare-up in global trade concerns dented investor risk appetites and drove down U.S. yields. The greenback was down 0.4 percent at 109.54 yen after ...
Asia business sentiment slips from seven-year high on trade worries
June 20th, 2018
Business confidence among Asian companies slipped for the first time in three quarters, on mounting worries that U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies would trigger tit-for-tat reprisals and undermine the global trading system. The Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asian Business Sentiment ...
When Will Gold’s “Summer Doldrums” End? History Says Pretty Soon
June 13th, 2018
This has been a uniquely boring stretch for gold and silver – especially considering all the things going on in the world that ought to light a fire under precious metals. In just the past few weeks, the US ...
Gold’s Monetary Rehabilitation
June 4th, 2018
There is a quiet revolution taking place in the monetary vacuum that’s developing on the back of the erosion of the dollar’s hegemony. It is perhaps too early to call what’s happening to the dollar the beginning of ...
A Spiking Dollar = Emerging Market Chaos
May 31st, 2018
The dollar collapse thesis – which ends with all fiat currencies achieving their intrinsic value of zero — doesn’t preclude some thrills and chills along the way, in which some currencies fall faster than others and wreak havoc on ...
Stocks take battering as Italian crisis roils financial markets
May 30th, 2018
Asian stocks extended a global sell-off on Wednesday as Italy’s political crisis rippled across financial markets, toppling the euro to a 10-month low, pushing up Italian borrowing costs and sending investors rushing to safe-haven assets such as U.S. Treasuries. ...
