Search Results for: Global banks
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 ...
Living Dangerously
June 18th, 2018
Regular readers of Goldmoney’s Insights should be aware by now that the cycle of business activity is fuelled by monetary policy, and that the periodic booms and slumps experienced since monetary policy has been used in an attempt ...
The dollar edged up to a three-week high against the yen
June 12th, 2018
The dollar edged up to a three-week high against the yen on Tuesday amid hopes that the closely-watched U.S.-North Korea summit can pave the way towards a reduction in tensions between the two old foes. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
The Gently Rotting Debt-Ridden EU
June 8th, 2018
The EU as a political construction is in a state of terminal decay. We know this for one reason and one reason alone: its core principal is the state is superior to its people. A system of government ...
Deutsche Bank explores merger with Commerzbank: reports
June 8th, 2018
Deutsche Bank AG’s Chairman Paul Achleitner is considering a merger with rival Commerzbank AG and is speaking with top investors and government officials about the potential tie-up, Bloomberg reported late Thursday. Sources told the news outlet there have been ...
Asian stocks rose on Wednesday, S&P 500 dipped, Euro gained
June 6th, 2018
Asian stocks rose on Wednesday after tech sector strength lifted Wall Street shares while concerns about Italy’s debt prompted investors to move into lower-risk government debt elsewhere, pushing U.S. Treasury yields down from recent highs. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
Société Générale to pay millions for LIBOR and Euribor manipulation charges
June 5th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Société Générale S.A. (Société Générale or the Bank) for attempted manipulation of and false reporting in connection with the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) for ...
Gold’s Monetary Rehabilitation
June 4th, 2018
There is a quiet revolution taking place in the monetary vacuum that’s developing on the back of the erosion of the dollar’s hegemony. It is perhaps too early to call what’s happening to the dollar the beginning of ...
A Spiking Dollar = Emerging Market Chaos
May 31st, 2018
The dollar collapse thesis – which ends with all fiat currencies achieving their intrinsic value of zero — doesn’t preclude some thrills and chills along the way, in which some currencies fall faster than others and wreak havoc on ...
GAIN Capital to sell the Company’s institutional platform for trading Forex
May 30th, 2018
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc, a leading global provider of online trading services, announced that it reached a definitive agreement to sell the Company’s GTX ECN business, an institutional platform for trading foreign exchange, to Deutsche Börse Group, a leading ...
