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Monday November 17: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
November 17th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for November 17, 2014 EUR/USD rallied above the 1.25 handle after selling off in the early session. Significant resistance is above at in the 1.2550-80. Pair likely to retest this area and make a push ...
Islamic finance body IIFM launches collateralised murabaha standard
November 17th, 2014
The Bahrain-based International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) has launched a standard contract template for collateralised murabaha transactions, aiming to boost use of a sorely needed liquidity management tool for Islamic finance institutions. The standard will serve as an alternative to repurchase ...
BoE’s Carney says may need to regulate bankers’ fixed pay
November 17th, 2014
Regulators may need to look at new rules to control the fixed pay of bankers as well as their bonuses so that it can be clawed back in the event of wrongdoing, the governor of the Bank of England ...
Technical Analysis: Currency pairs – Nov 17
November 17th, 2014
Technical Analysis for November 17, 2014 EUR/USD As the weekend shows us a break over 1.252, a short term bullish movement is expected in EUR/USD and it would target 1.256 next. A break over 1.256 will target 1.26 next too ...
G-20 Plans $2 Trillion Growth Boost to Uneven Global Economy
November 17th, 2014
Group of 20 leaders agreed to take measures that would boost their economies by a collective $2 trillion by 2018 as they battle patchy growth and the threat of a European recession. Citing risks from financial markets and geopolitical ...
Yen Falls to 7-Year Low on Election-Stimulus Speculation
November 17th, 2014
The yen strengthened after falling to a seven-year low against the dollar as demand for safer assets revived following a report that showed Japan’s economy unexpectedly sank into a recession. Japan’s currency climbed from the weakest level since October ...
Sydney Yuan Hub Seen Saving Importers 7% in Trading: Currencies
November 17th, 2014
Australian importers are in line for a windfall as speculation grows that Chinese President Xi Jinping will use his visit to the country this week to anoint Sydney as a yuan trading center. The ability to exchange Australian dollars ...
UK hands fraud agency all funds needed for forex probe
November 14th, 2014
Britain’s finance ministry will hand the country’s anti-fraud agency all the funds it needs to conduct a criminal investigation into alleged rigging of the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market, a Treasury source said. Finance minister George Osborne has written to ...
U.S. judge upholds BP ‘gross negligence’ Gulf spill ruling
November 14th, 2014
A U.S. judge weighing how much BP Plc should be punished for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Thursday refused to overturn his own finding that the oil company’s conduct was “grossly negligent.” The decision by U.S. District Judge ...
Oracle, SAP settle long-running TomorrowNow lawsuit
November 14th, 2014
Oracle Corp and SAP SE have settled long-running copyright litigation for $356.7 million over improper downloads of Oracle files, ending a fierce legal battle between the two enterprise software rivals. The case involved SAP’s TomorrowNow unit, which the German company bought to ...
