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Europe Shares Rise With Banks as Investors Speculate on Fed Hike
May 19th, 2016
Fed presidents said that at least two hikes may be warranted Burberry retreats after reporting drop in annual earnings Banks propelled a rebound in European stocks, while investors weighed the possibility of the Federal Reserve increasing interest rates sooner ...
Central banks buying up gold to diversify away from US dollar
May 12th, 2016
The demand for gold has renewed worldwide with the price for the precious metal climbing to nearly $1300 per ounce for the first time in 15 months. The rally has been led by the world’s central banks loading up ...
Europe Stocks Rise for 2nd Day as Credit Suisse Leads Bank Gains
May 10th, 2016
Carmakers climb as China auto sales increased in April Pandora jumps on better-than-forecast profit, raised outlook European shares rebounded further as investors speculated a selloff that spurred their worst week since February was overdone, and Credit Suisse Group AG ...
China Stops Trying To Fool The World; World Is Sorry
May 10th, 2016
Something interesting has happened. China earlier this year responded to falling stock prices by borrowing a trillion dollars and spending it on commodities, boosting the prices of iron ore, oil, copper, etc., and giving the global economy a patina ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate for May 2016 unchanged at 0.1 percent
April 25th, 2016
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for March declined by 0.2 percent, a slightly greater decline than the average of forecasters’ predictions for a decline of 0.1 percent. There was a seasonal price decline of 3.9 percent in the fruit ...
China’s biggest tax reform for 20 years set to buoy growth
April 22nd, 2016
China’s biggest tax overhaul in more than two decades starts on May 1, with changes set to reduce the burden on services companies and encourage factories to upgrade and innovate. Under the new system, taxes in the construction, property, finance and ...
This Is How They Fool Us, China Edition
April 20th, 2016
So it seems that China’s economy, caught in the grip of a credit crisis just a few months ago, is all better. And so, by extension, is everyone else. As the Wall Street Journal explains it: ...
Asian Stock Rally Sputters as Crude Retreats; China Shares Slump
April 20th, 2016
Aussie, Kiwi fall from the strongest levels since June Oil slips to about $40 as Kuwait strike ends; silver gains A rally in Asian stocks stumbled as oil fell back to around $40 a barrel and Chinese equities slumped ...
Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers
April 13th, 2016
Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information ...
China Foreign-Exchange Reserves Rise for First Time in Five Months
April 8th, 2016
Increase comes as the yuan has staged a recovery in recent weeks China’s foreign-currency reserves rose during March, the first increase in five months, a sign Beijing may have partially succeeded in stemming heavy capital outflows that destabilized global ...