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Central Banks Will Be Busy This Week, But Their Ability To Boost Global Business Is In Doubt
April 27th, 2015
Most big central banks have been easing policy since the beginning of the year and are set to do more, but it still isn’t clear whether that new activism, which has pushed stock markets to record highs, will help ...
11 Signs That We Are Entering The Next Phase Of The Global Economic Crisis
April 24th, 2015
Well, the Nasdaq finally did it. It has climbed all the way back to where it was at the peak of the dotcom bubble. Back in March 2000, the Nasdaq set an all-time record high of 5,048.62. On Thursday, ...
Lifting potential growth in the euro area
April 23rd, 2015
Speech by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Welt-Währungskonferenz Potential growth and monetary policy The euro area economy seems now to be turning the corner. Both the hard and soft data suggest that ...
Russian Central Bank Says Ruble’s Recovery Over For Now
April 22nd, 2015
The ruble’s recent firming trend has ended for now, the Russian Central Bank’s first deputy governor, Ksenia Yudayeva, said Wednesday. “The strengthening of the ruble has finished. Now we observe stabilization,” she said, adding that she was referring to ...
Tickmill Reports March Statistics of CFD Trading
April 21st, 2015
Global ECN broker Tickmill announced its first monthly trading statistics of CFDs following successful launch of the product in March 2015. Following strong customer interest towards trading CFDs, Tickmill on March 10, 2015 enabled trading on eight major CFDs ...
Top 5 overseas contracting hotspots of 2015
April 20th, 2015
Due to weaker economic global activity, 2014 proved to be a difficult year for some countries and contracting opportunities may have not registered the expected demand, writes Helene Truffa of Capital Consulting, an international tax and employment advisory. In ...
China, Japan stocks up as Beijing steps up stimulus
April 20th, 2015
Stock markets in China and Japan rose on Monday after Beijing’s latest stimulus to shore up the world’s second-largest economy underpinned sentiment and helped limit losses across the rest of Asia. China’s central bank on Sunday cut the amount ...
Fed Is Expected to Shift on Municipal Bonds
April 17th, 2015
In a change of heart, the Federal Reserve will allow big U.S. banks to use some municipal bonds to meet new rules aimed at ensuring they have enough cash during a financial-market meltdown, according to people familiar with the ...
Putin Says Russian Economy Could Return to Growth in 2 Years
April 16th, 2015
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s economy could return to growth in less than two years, even though he considers it unlikely that the West will lift economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis soon. In a televised call-in ...
Huge Trouble Is Percolating Just Under The Surface Of The Global Economy
April 16th, 2015
Did you know that the number of publicly traded companies declaring bankruptcy has reached a five year high? And did you know that Chinese exports are absolutely collapsing and that Chinese economic growth in 2014 was the weakest in ...
