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The yen climbed, gold price increased; Key financial events coming up this week
July 23rd, 2018
The yen climbed and Japanese government bonds slid on speculation that the Bank of Japan may debate some fine tuning in its stimulus policy. Asian stocks were mixed. The rise in Japan’s 10-year benchmark bond yield matched the biggest ...
Australasian lawyers see benefit of doing things differently
July 17th, 2018
Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand are more open to new ways of doing things, a comprehensive new study has found. Peerpoint, Allen & Overy’s consultant lawyer platform, surveyed more than 1,000 lawyers and law students around the world ...
Firm to pay $3.4 Million Penalty for attempted manipulation of agricultural markets
July 16th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Lansing Trade Group, LLC (Lansing), a commodity merchandising firm with headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas, for the attempted manipulation of the price of certain wheat ...
The crypto-currencies that die before they have bloomed
July 12th, 2018
It has been the biggest craze in investment of the last two years – the idea that creating your own crypto-currency through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is the route to riches. But now an academic study has revealed ...
US releases $200bn list of Chinese products for possible new tariffs
July 11th, 2018
Accusing China of not negotiating “seriously” on trade, the Trump administration has released a list of products it wants to impose a ten percent tariff on, amounting to $200 billion. The new tariffs would kick in within 60 days. ...
Oil prices volatile as trade conflict between U.S. and China escalates
July 6th, 2018
Oil prices seesawed in nervous trading on Friday as the United States slapped a raft of tariffs on Chinese goods in an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Oil prices initially fell on Friday, along with ...
Oil prices edge up as U.S. supply tightens
July 4th, 2018
Oil prices edged up on Wednesday following a report of tightening U.S. fuel inventories amid an outage at Syncrude Canada oil sands facility in Alberta, which usually supplies the United States. Prices were also pushed up by looming U.S. ...
Central bankers claim bitcoin could break the internet
June 21st, 2018
Who’s right about bitcoin: the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) or cryptocurrency advocates? The Bank of International Settlements on Sunday said bitcoin is “a poor substitute for the solid institutional backing of money.” Critics in the crypto world say ...
Oil, the petrodollar, and the next emerging market crisis
June 21st, 2018
Oil prices are up over the past year, which is bad if you’re, say, a developing country that imports a lot of the stuff. But the US dollar (aka the petrodollar) is also up, which compounds the problem because ...
Bundesbank released German economy projections
June 19th, 2018
The June 2018 edition of the Bundesbank’s Monthly Report outlines the prospects for the German economy on the basis of macroeconomic projections for 2018 and 2019, with a look ahead at the year 2020. According to the forecast, which ...
