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This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition
December 28th, 2015
Along with the currencies of most other commodity-exporting countries, the Canadian dollar has been in near-freefall lately. Gold, meanwhile, has been sucked down with the rest of the commodities complex, falling hard since 2013. But only in US dollars. ...
Zimbabwe to make Chinese yuan legal currency after Beijing cancels debts
December 23rd, 2015
Yuan becomes the latest currency to be approved for public transactions in Zimbabwe, as the southern African nation seeks to increase trade with Beijing. Zimbabwe has announced that it will make the Chinese yuan legal tender after Beijing confirmed ...
What Investors May Expect in 2016
December 17th, 2015
2016 is expected to be a trying year for the financial markets and global economy as a whole. Several analysts are predicting a stock market crash, while others are forecasting a deeper recession in Europe. While there’s no way ...
World GDP is Falling–If Measured at Market Exchange Rates
December 16th, 2015
IMF statistics show that world GDP fell 4.9% from 2014 to 2015 which is almost as severe a drop as occurred from 2008-2009. Check out the bottom rows of Table A1 in the October 2015 issue of the World Economic ...
Gold braced for Fed rate hike
December 14th, 2015
Historical data shows that this isn’t the time to initiate shorts on gold Gold has been lost for direction in recent weeks, moving sideways in the range of $1,060-1,080/ounce. Last week, it ended at $1,074/ounce, down 1.1 per cent. ...
Barbados Central Bank Should Consider Holding Bitcoin
December 1st, 2015
Two Barbadian economists have concluded that the country’s central bank may want to consider holding a small amount of bitcoin as part of its portfolio of foreign reserves. In a new working paper, the authors examine the potential role cryptocurrencies could ...
Bitcoin Price Surges by 12%, Setting Weekly High
November 27th, 2015
The price of bitcoin jumped 12% today, setting a weekly high of $368.51 at 12:30 (UTC). According to the CoinDesk USD Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), the digital currency opened the day at $328.98 before increasing $40. The price has shed about $20 from its intra-day peak, trading around ...
Gold prices set to recover from 5-yr lows in 2016 – HSBC
November 26th, 2015
Gold will finally bounce back in 2016 after repeatedly hitting five-year lows in recent months, HSBC said in a report on Wednesday. The bank sees gold averaging $1,160 this year, $1,205 next year, $1,300 in 2017 and $1,325 over ...
Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?
November 26th, 2015
A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. The US dollar has been rising against the rest of ...
10 Forex Concepts You Need to Understand
November 25th, 2015
The foreign exchange (forex, FX for short) is the world’s most liquid financial market, with a daily turnover of $5.3 trillion(1). Each day, governments, multinational corporations, banks, investors and traders exchange currencies on the open market to facilitate ...
