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Sweden heads to cashless society
August 18th, 2016
Sweden is becoming a cashless society due to high consumer awareness of e-payments and card usage levels, a new report reveals. Swedish consumers use cards with a frequency of 134.3 transactions per card per year – higher than the ...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand: Official Cash Rate reduced to 2.0 percent
August 11th, 2016
Statement by Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler: The Reserve Bank today reduced the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 25 basis points to 2.0 percent. Global growth is below trend despite being supported by unprecedented levels of monetary stimulus. Significant ...
Saving the system
August 10th, 2016
Monetary policy, we are told, is all about staving off recession and stimulating economic growth. However, not only is monetary debasement in any form counterproductive and destroys the personal wealth of the masses, but the economists who devised today’s ...
Bank of England cuts Bank Rate to 0.25%
August 4th, 2016
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending 3 August 2016, the MPC voted for ...
Bank of Israel reports Monetary Policy for the six Months 0f 2016
August 3rd, 2016
Monetary policy: During the first half of 2016, the Monetary Committee decided to leave the interest rate at a level of 0.1 percent. For both July and August, which belong to the second half of 2016, the Monetary Committee also ...
The Bank of Japan released Japan’s economy Outlook
July 29th, 2016
Japan’s economy has continued its moderate recovery trend, although exports and production have been sluggish due mainly to the effects of the slowdown in emerging economies. Looking ahead, sluggishness is expected to remain in exports and production for some ...
Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5%
July 14th, 2016
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending on 13 July 2016, the MPC voted by ...
The pensions mess: can gold help?
June 14th, 2016
The British have recently seen two unpleasant examples of the cost of pension fund deficits. A deficit at British Steel, estimated to be about £485m, was followed by a deficit at British Home Stores of £571m. In both cases, ...
Elliott Wave Analysis On S&P500 And GBPUSD
June 14th, 2016
S&P500 Good morning traders. Today we have UK CPI figure and US retail sales figure as main news on the calendar. Stocks continue to fall across the globe on Brexit fears and repositioning of the market participants. The FED ...
Gold – a reasonable correction?
June 3rd, 2016
Gold weakened during May by about $100, from a high point of $1300 to a low of $1200. This, for technical analysts, is entirely within the normal correction zone of a third to two-thirds of the previous rise, which ...
