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Asia Stocks Mixed on Final Day of Stellar Quarter: Markets Wrap
March 31st, 2017
Rand extends loss after South Africa finance minister fired Dollar maintains gains after Fed officials adopt hawkish tone Asian stocks retreated as investors pulled back on the final day of the biggest quarterly advance in five years for the ...
Bitcoin Price Spikes Spurred by Chinese Capital Curbs: Australian Financial Analyst
March 29th, 2017
A prominent equities analyst at an Australian private brokerage sees China’s capital controls as a major factor behind the recent surges of the value of bitcoin. Julia Lee, an equities analyst at Australian brokerage firm BellDirect was speaking in ...
Oil futures supported by weaker dollar, but bloated supply still weighs
March 28th, 2017
Oil prices rose on Tuesday, supported by a weak dollar, but crude continued to be weighed down by surging U.S. production and uncertainty over whether an OPEC-led supply cut is big enough to rebalance the market. Prices for front-month ...
Oil dips as rising US drilling offsets talk of an OPEC-led cut extension
March 27th, 2017
Oil prices fell on Monday as rising U.S. drilling activity outweighed talks that an OPEC-led production cut initially due to end in mid-2017 may be extended. Benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 eased 22 cents, or 0.4 percent, from their ...
Can state spending ever be cut?
March 22nd, 2017
President Trump was elected on several promises, including one that he would fund tax cuts by cutting public spending. Cynics might note that his first action was to increase spending on the military by $54bn, the equivalent of six ...
What to know when investing in Diamonds
March 16th, 2017
People are always looking to find investment opportunities to generate income and for saving for the future. Investment opportunities can be identified in real estate, on the stock market, on the online trading of financial instruments , on commodities ...
Asian Stocks Follow U.S. Lower Amid Wild Oil Swing: Markets Wrap
March 15th, 2017
Stockpiles report reverses oil drop tied to Saudi output Equities from Singapore to Tokyo slip ahead of Fed decision Crude oil whipsawed on production and stockpiles reports, while most Asian markets followed U.S. equities lower and the dollar slipped ...
The fateful date
March 12th, 2017
Caesar: What sayest thou to me now? Speak once again. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass. This famous advice, according to Shakespeare, was ignored with fatal consequences for Julius ...
Asia stocks firm ahead of U.S. jobs, dollar hits one-and-half-month high vs yen
March 10th, 2017
Asian stocks edged up and the dollar rose to 1-1/2-month highs versus the yen on Friday, ahead of the closely-watched U.S. non-farm payrolls report due later in the day. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.2 ...
Stocks Weaken After China Data, Treasuries Lower: Markets Wrap
March 9th, 2017
China’s producer prices rose the most since 2008 in February Greenback gains, Treasuries hold slide on private jobs data Equity markets outside Japan declined after data showed Chinese producer prices rising at the fastest pace since just after the ...
