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Will coffee futures recover in 2018?
January 11th, 2018
Coffee prices fared poorly last year, despite (depending on which analysis you follow) ideas of another world production deficit. The impact of the shortfall, evident in downbeat export data from Brazil and Vietnam, was muted by the extent to ...
Hedge-fund managers reap 3,175 percent profit off bitcoin in 2017
January 10th, 2018
For hedge funds, 2017 ended with a clean sweep — positive returns in every month that resulted in the best total performance in four years. That kind of a winning streak hasn’t happened since 2013 and was part of ...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have crashed 20 per cent on Monday
January 9th, 2018
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies including ethereum, litecoin and ripple plummeted in value on Monday after Coinmarketcap removed prices from South Korean exchanges without warning. Prices on South Korean exchanges are typically up to 30 per cent higher than in other ...
Two leading MENA Fintech hubs signed region’s first FinTech agreement
January 8th, 2018
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, and the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) have entered into a Fintech cooperation agreement, marking a significant first in the MENA region. Signed between two of the ...
How quickly will the dollar collapse?
January 8th, 2018
This might seem a frivolous question, while the dollar still retains its might, and is universally accepted in preference to other, less stable fiat currencies. However, it is becoming clear, at least to independent monetary observers, that in ...
Bitcoin got a big boost in 2017. Here are 5 other cryptocurrencies to watch in 2018
January 4th, 2018
Mainstream investors spent much of last year trying to figure out how to jump in on bitcoin, the digital currency for which prices ballooned to as high as $19,000 in recent months. But even as people hope to make ...
This is the currency that performs best at the start of a new year
January 3rd, 2018
If you are wondering which currency, other than the U.S. dollar, to hold at the start of a new year, past trades show you’ll be better off with euros. Using data analytics platform Kensho, CNBC looked at the average ...
World Bank: How to sum up 2017?
December 19th, 2017
How to sum up 2017? The global economy improved but there were plenty of unsettling and upsetting events and trends. Catastrophic storms and flooding wrecked homes and livelihoods from South Asia to the Caribbean. Education quality in many countries ...
Europe, Brexit and the credit cycle
December 18th, 2017
Europe’s financial and systemic troubles have retreated from the headlines. This is partly due to the financial media’s attention switching to President Trump and the US budget negotiations, partly due to Brexit and the preoccupation with Britain’s problems, ...
Russia and China could set international gold price based on physical gold trading
December 4th, 2017
Since Russia, China, India, Brazil & South Africa are all either large producers or consumers of gold, or both, it is highly likely that the BRICS bloc they constitute could focus its cross-border gold trading network on trading physical ...
