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U.S. Stocks Come Charging Back
August 27th, 2015
Six-day losing streak ends as Fed official calls case for September rate increase ‘less compelling’ Stocks snapped a six-day losing streak Wednesday, soaring by the highest percentage in nearly four years amid signs of strength in the U.S. economy ...
Chinese shares higher on back of global rebound
August 27th, 2015
Chinese shares have closed 5% higher after massive losses there earlier in the week rocked markets around the globe. The Shanghai Composite was up by 156.3 points to 3,083.59. But the turnaround does little to make up for the ...
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us
August 25th, 2015
Global markets are puking at the prospect of higher yields in the U.S. There are many reasons for global markets to melt down, but one that doesn’t get enough attention is the strong dollar. In effect, global markets are ...
Dow plunges after rollercoaster trading on ‘Black Monday’ for global markets
August 25th, 2015
Dow’s 586-point drop puts it on track for its worst month since February 2009 as White House seeks to reassure investors that US economy can withstand volatility Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped off global stocks on Monday ...
U.S. banks moved billions in trades beyond CFTC’s reach
August 24th, 2015
This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris ...
Oil Price Collapse Triggers Currency Crisis In Emerging Markets
August 24th, 2015
Emerging market currencies are getting slammed by the collapse in commodity prices, a downturn that has accelerated in recent weeks. The health of many middle-income and emerging market economies has been predicated on relatively strong commodity prices. A whole ...
Global Selloff Deepens as Stocks Sink With Oil
August 24th, 2015
Equity investors took flight across Asia, sending the region’s benchmark stock gauge toward a bear market and Chinese stocks plunging by the most since 2007 as U.S. futures tumbled. Ten-year Treasury yields dropped below 2 percent. China’s Shanghai Composite ...
The Fed Talks And The Market Tanks. That’s Different
August 21st, 2015
Normally there’s a distinct pattern to the impact of Federal Reserve statements on the financial markets. The tone of equities trading in particular starts to improve as the moment of the announcement approaches; the words turn out to be ...
China Shares Hit New Low Since Depth of Selloff
August 21st, 2015
Early gauge of China’s factory activity falls to multiyear low China’s stock market set a new low since the depths of the summer selloff that wiped out roughly a third of its value, despite massive intervention from Beijing. The ...
Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market
August 20th, 2015
While key Western banks are artificially restraining gold prices to breathe life into the diluted and devalued dollar system, Russia, China and other emerging economies are involved in “the genial move” to establish an entirely different gold market, F. ...
