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Asia Currencies Slide After Fed Officials Signal Rate Increase Possible in 2015
September 22nd, 2015
Most Asian currencies weakened on Tuesday after comments by U.S. Federal Reserve speakers suggested the central bank could raise interest rates as early as next month, while shares made modest gains ahead of a reading on Chinese manufacturing. The ...
Oil Speculators Most Bullish in Two Months as OPEC Calls for $80
September 21st, 2015
U.S. crude output seen falling the most since 1989 next year Almost 15,000 short oil bets closed out before Fed decision Hedge funds slashed their bets on falling oil prices, leaving them the most bullish in two months ...
Oil prices rise as U.S. drilling declines
September 21st, 2015
Oil prices rose by around one percent on Monday as U.S. drilling slowed and analysts estimated that $1.5 trillion worth of planned American production investment was uneconomical at prices of $50 per barrel or lower. Crude prices have plunged ...
Uncertainty over Greek elections could weigh on Euro – Euro Currency update
September 18th, 2015
Euro As forecast by the majority of economists, the Federal Reserve played it safe and left borrowing costs at record lows after its latest gathering. The decision sent the US Dollar trending lower against the Euro and as EUR/USD ...
Five things to listen for during Janet Yellen’s press conference
September 17th, 2015
Clues as to future interest-rate path will be key for Fed press conference Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has not spoken publicly since mid-July when she finished two days of testifying to Congress. At the time, she expressed the ...
Saudi Arabia Just Got Turned Into an ETF
September 17th, 2015
Now that you can have instant exposure to Middle Eastern stocks, the question is: Do you want it? Like a game of Risk, the entire world is slowly but surely getting wrapped up by U.S. exchange-traded fund issuers. The IShares MSCI Saudi ...
Gold logs largest 1-day price gain in nearly a month
September 17th, 2015
Fall in CPI may make Fed hesitate to raise interest rates Gold futures logged their largest single-session price gain in nearly a month on Wednesday, after a U.S. consumer-price report suggested that inflation might be short of the Federal ...
The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One
September 16th, 2015
It seems increasingly likely the next Global Financial Meltdown will arise in the FX/currency markets. Central banks are like generals: they tend to fight the last war. The Great Financial meltdown of 2008 was centered in too big to fail, too ...
Thomson Reuters: Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB
September 16th, 2015
Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Paul Ingrassia, Balazs Koranyi and John O’Donnell on 14 September Is quantitative easing working? It is working and effective in many ways. The ultimate metric to assess success is the ...
U.S. oil extends gains on stock-draw, Brent lags with Asian economies
September 16th, 2015
U.S. oil prices extended gains in Asia on Wednesday on an unexpected stockpile draw and higher gasoline prices, while international crude markets were weaker on the back of low Asian economic growth expectations. Front-month U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) ...
