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Asian Stocks Slip Before Fed, BOJ as Yen Rises; Ringgit Slides
April 26th, 2016
Copper drops as oil resumes gains; U.S. Treasuries advance Malaysia’s currency slumps as state fund misses bond payment Asian equities fell for a third day and copper dropped to a one-week low as investors shunned riskier assets ahead of ...
Oil falls as traders cash in after three weeks of gains
April 25th, 2016
Oil prices dipped on Monday as traders took profits after three weeks of gains and as a jump in the dollar late last week was priced into fuel markets. Front-month Brent crude was trading at $44.80 per barrel at ...
Asian Stocks Retreat as Oil Falls With Copper; Yen Strengthens
April 25th, 2016
Japanese currency advances after steepest drop since 2014 Crude retreats from five-month high; British pound gains Asian shares were set for the first back-to-back declines in a month as commodities prices retreated and the yen strengthened, reflecting investor caution ...
Foreigners Buy US Debt, US Investors Buy Foreign Equity
April 22nd, 2016
When it comes to international flows of debt and equity, the US economy as a whole has developed an interesting pattern: those from other countries are net buyers of US debt, while US investors and firms are net buyers ...
Asian Stocks Retreat as BOJ Negative-Rate Proposal Weakens Yen
April 22nd, 2016
Microsoft, Alphabet, Sony profits fall short of estimates Topix rebounds as currency weakens; Shanghai Composite falls Asian stocks retreated from a four-month high as companies including Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. reported earnings that missed estimates. Japanese shares rose ...
Russian Official Calls for Criminal Liability for Bitcoin
April 21st, 2016
Russia’s Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has, once again, opined that virtual and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are money substitutes or surrogates that need to be outlawed. He also claimed that virtual currencies are “often used” for the financing of ...
EBS BrokerTec expands its successful NDF offering
April 21st, 2016
One month against the fix complements existing successful one-month outright product EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that in response to customer demand it has added a new non-deliverable forward (NDF) ...
Thomson Reuters Enhances Liquidity Access for FX Market Participants with New Regional Data Centers
April 20th, 2016
Additional data centers in New York, London and Tokyo provide improved pricing, market access and workflow for FX market participants across the globe Recognizing the need for FX traders to have efficient access to the best pricing capabilities and ...
Cryptocurrency For Beginners – Bitcoin, Ethereum, And BitGold
April 20th, 2016
What do you know about Bitcoin? Ever purchased/sold any? Used it to pay for something, online or at a bricks and mortar store? What about Ethereum? BitGold? If you’re like the majority of the public, you may have a ...
Oil price’s decline weighs on global stock markets
April 20th, 2016
Stocks fell around the world on Wednesday as the price of crude declined after a strike by Kuwaiti oil workers ended. Brent and U.S. crude oil futures prices LCOc1 CLc1 dropped as worries about oversupply in the oil market ...
