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The UK financial markets regulator bars Cyprus Investment Firms
June 4th, 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has issued a press release to inform that has taken action to stop four Cypriot investment firms from continuing to offer ...
Why the Gold/Silver ratio is a useful indicator
May 26th, 2020
There’s a debate in gold bug circles over whether the price difference between gold and silver – the gold/silver ratio – tells us anything useful. Some skeptics, for instance, view the original gold/silver ratio of 15 — from America’s ...
Charges in international Binary Options and Digital Asset fraud scheme
May 25th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement early in May to inform about the filing of a multi-million dollar fraud action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, charging three individuals and three companies with ...
Time to learn about money
May 14th, 2020
An unexpected destruction of fiat currency has been advanced by the monetary and fiscal response to the coronavirus. Financial markets have yet to discount the possibility of such an outcome, but in the coming months they are likely ...
Geopolitics post COVID-19
May 7th, 2020
Before the coronavirus caused governments to impose lockdowns, whole economies, markets and even currencies were already on course to be destroyed by a vicious downturn in bank lending at a time of contracting trade and record debt. The ...
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency gets revamp in response to backlash
April 22nd, 2020
Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency Libra will be linked to individual national currencies and overseen by global watchdogs in a scaled-back revamp it hopes will win regulatory approval. The prospect of Facebook’s 2.5 billion users adopting Libra has led to intense ...
Global stocks move higher ahead of crucial OPEC meeting
April 9th, 2020
Global stocks posted small gains on Thursday on hopes that the coronavirus outbreak may be slowing in the United States and Europe. Oil futures, meanwhile, are rising ahead of a meeting between Russia and OPEC to discuss production cuts. ...
A primer for gold newbies
April 7th, 2020
The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become suddenly apparent, hastened by the spread of the coronavirus. For ...
France makes big move towards a digital euro
April 2nd, 2020
France’s central bank has announced its plans to launch an experimental program to test a digital euro in settlement procedures. Qualified institutions are also invited to participate. According to the bank’s statement published on March 27, the program will ...
The dollar rises against major currencies and riskier emerging markets
March 30th, 2020
The dollar snapped a week of declines on Monday, rising against major currencies and riskier emerging markets as investors braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty while governments tightened lockdowns to fight the coronavirus. China’s offshore yuan fell after ...