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OPEC: $95 Oil, But Not Until 2040
December 28th, 2015
This week opened with the average global price of oil at an 11-year low, yet OPEC expects its own producers eventually will cut back on production, causing prices to rebound to $70 per barrel by 2020. That may seem ...
What Investors May Expect in 2016
December 17th, 2015
2016 is expected to be a trying year for the financial markets and global economy as a whole. Several analysts are predicting a stock market crash, while others are forecasting a deeper recession in Europe. While there’s no way ...
Dubai economy picks up with tourist activity on the rise
December 14th, 2015
Dubai’s economy picked up in November as tourist activity increased against the previous month, an economic survey of the emirate shows. The Dubai economy tracker, a survey of business conditions in the emirate, rose to 53.4 in November, up ...
What is Behavioral Finance?
December 14th, 2015
Why, and under what circumstance, can markets behave inefficiently? That is the central question of behavioural finance, which is the study of how psychological, cognitive and emotional factors impact market participants. Behavioural finance is studied under the wider ...
Swiss National Bank released: Monetary policy remains expansionary
December 10th, 2015
The Swiss National Bank has issued today a press release to inform in relation to its monetary policy assessment. Monetary policy remains expansionary The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is maintaining its expansionary monetary policy. The target range for the ...
Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People
December 10th, 2015
Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the divergence between Fed tightening and ECB/BoJ/BoC easing. This widening gap is a perfect storm ...
RBNZ: Official Cash Rate reduced to 2.5 percent
December 10th, 2015
Statement by Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler: The Reserve Bank today reduced the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 25 basis points to 2.5 percent. Globally, economic growth is below average and inflation is low, despite highly stimulatory monetary conditions. ...
Investors Keep Pulling Cash Out of Turkey
December 8th, 2015
Foreign investors withdrew $7.6 billion from stocks, bonds Capital Economics sees lira, bonds extending declines Foreign investors look set to keep pulling their money out of Turkey after dumping a record amount of stocks and bonds this year. Investors from ...
UAE private sector business activity rebounds from 30-month low
December 8th, 2015
The economies of Saudi Arabia and the UAE showed a mild improvement in November, according to a monthly survey of businesses. But economists believe that the impact of low oil prices and a slowdown in infrastructure spending will lead ...
OPEC 168th Meeting concludes
December 7th, 2015
The 168th Meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was held in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, 4th December 2015 under the Chairmanship of its President, HE Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, whom the Conference ...