Search Results for: US Dollar
Don’t Sweat The Election. The Next Crisis Is Already Baked Into The Cake
November 1st, 2016
Friday was one of those days where you walk away from the screen for a minute and come back to find a completely different market. All it took was the FBI finding a trove of new Clinton emails, thus ...
Fiat money and gold
October 21st, 2016
It is time to revisit the Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ), which totals US dollar money deposited in the banking system, the commercial banks’ money on deposit at the Fed and physical cash. Besides alerting us to how the expansion ...
How not to manage a currency
October 15th, 2016
Make no mistake, sterling’s collapse is a very serious development, and has serious consequences for sterling interest rates. While it is becoming apparent that interest rates are going to have to rise possibly for all currencies on a one-year ...
America is on a slippery slope
September 30th, 2016
It hadn’t happened before, at least not since US presidents started visiting foreign countries after the Second World War. In early September, when President Obama landed at Hangzhoi for the G-20 summit in early September, the CIA security men ...
SWIFT: Virtual currencies unlikely to crowd out fiat currencies
September 7th, 2016
The SWIFT Institute has published a new research paper analysing whether Bitcoin will crowd out fiat currencies in the global community. The paper, entitled “Virtual currencies: Media of exchange or speculative assets?”, looks at the dynamic relationship between virtual currencies, such ...
HKMA embraces FinTech as it burnishes Hong Kong’s brand to compete as Asia’s financial hub
September 6th, 2016
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has unveiled a series of policy initiatives for banks to embrace technology, and changed the city’s tax regime to attract corporate treasury departments, as it sharpens its edge to compete with Singapore and Tokyo ...
Euro-zone inflation misses with 0.2%
August 31st, 2016
Euro-zone inflation is not going anywhere fast: 0.2% is the headline. This is identical to the figure in July and leaves CPI far away from the 2% target the ECB has. Core inflation also fell short of predictions by actually ...
Asian stocks drop as investors avoid risk before Yellen speech
August 26th, 2016
Asian stocks extended their weekly loss on Friday (Aug 26) ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen later in the day that may shed light on the US interest-rate outlook. The yen meandered after Japanese consumer ...
Baker & McKenzie announces global revenues of $2.62 billion
August 22nd, 2016
Revenues up 8% or 16% in constant currency Net profit grew by 14% or 22% in constant currency Profits per Equity Partner up 13% or 21% in constant currency 150 new partners Baker & McKenzie, the world’s premier global ...
Panic dominates among currency traders in Egypt following parliament’s decision for tough punishments
August 16th, 2016
Employees in exchange companies in the informal market express concern, outrage over parliament’s recent decision to crackdown on currency traders A state of panic has broken out among exchange companies trading the US dollar following parliament’s decision on Thursday ...
