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Gold Holds Decline From Two-Week High as Dollar Gains, Oil Drops
November 18th, 2014
Gold held a retreat from the highest level in two weeks after the dollar strengthened and energy prices dropped, curbing demand for the metal as an investment. Silver and palladium declined. Bullion for immediate delivery traded at $1,186.35 an ...
Pound Falls a Fourth Day as Carney Signals Disinflation Risks
November 17th, 2014
The pound fell for a fourth day against the dollar, approaching a 14-month low, as Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and Chief Economist Andy Haldane signaled they’re concerned that inflation is slowing. U.K. government bonds rose along with Treasuries, pushing 10-year gilt ...
Islamic finance body IIFM launches collateralised murabaha standard
November 17th, 2014
The Bahrain-based International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) has launched a standard contract template for collateralised murabaha transactions, aiming to boost use of a sorely needed liquidity management tool for Islamic finance institutions. The standard will serve as an alternative to repurchase ...
BoE’s Carney says may need to regulate bankers’ fixed pay
November 17th, 2014
Regulators may need to look at new rules to control the fixed pay of bankers as well as their bonuses so that it can be clawed back in the event of wrongdoing, the governor of the Bank of England ...
Sydney Yuan Hub Seen Saving Importers 7% in Trading: Currencies
November 17th, 2014
Australian importers are in line for a windfall as speculation grows that Chinese President Xi Jinping will use his visit to the country this week to anoint Sydney as a yuan trading center. The ability to exchange Australian dollars ...
Bubble Bobble – blowing and bursting bubbles
November 14th, 2014
Those of you that grew up in the mid 80’s might remember the pre-internet/smartphone era when playing electronic games involved leaving your home and physically going to an amusement park or arcade. This usually meant having to put metal ...
Twitter Debt Rated as Junk
November 14th, 2014
Twitter Inc. ’s debt was rated as junk on Thursday by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a sobering grade that comes a day after executives of the social media service tried to reassure skeptics on Wall Street of its long-term ...
Technical Analysis: Currency pairs – Nov 13
November 13th, 2014
Technical Analysis for November 13, 2014 EUR/USD The last movement from the market was holding the price around 1.242, Currently EUR/USD still moving sideways at 1.24 – 1.25 level. The last movement from the market can’t break 1.251 resistance ...
The Two New Tools of Monetary Policy
November 12th, 2014
Every basic exposition of how monetary policy is conducted before about 2008 is soon to become obsolete. The three basic monetary policy tools that used to be taught in almost every introductory economics course were changing reserve requirements, changing ...
Moscow Exchange chooses DataSpace as primary data center services provider
November 11th, 2014
Moscow Exchange, Russia”s leading exchange platform for equities, bonds, derivatives, currencies, money market instruments and commodities, announced that it has chosen Moscow-based DataSpace as its primary data center facility and services provider. Following an initial stage in 2015—during which ...
