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Dollar hits 17-month low vs. yen, dented by Fed’s cautious stance
April 7th, 2016
The dollar slid to a 17-month low against the yen on Thursday, pressured by minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s meeting last month that underscored caution about future interest rate hikes. The dollar fell to 109.10 yen at one ...
A tale of two currencies
April 5th, 2016
There is a widespread and growing feeling that financial markets are slipping towards another crisis of some sort. In this article I argue that we are in the eye of a financial storm, that it will blow again from ...
RBI:India Cuts Rates,First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
April 5th, 2016
Part A: Monetary Policy Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 ...
CQG’s Continuum Connects with OANDA to Expand FX Trading
April 5th, 2016
Continuum, CQG’s enterprise API division, today announced that it has partnered with OANDA, a leading global provider of online foreign exchange (FX) and over-the-counter commodities and indices trading services, to provide US-based FX trading. The connection to OANDA’s fxTrade ...
Robert Kiyosaki And Harry Dent Warn That Financial Armageddon Is Imminent
March 31st, 2016
Financial experts Robert Kiyosaki and Harry Dent are both warning that the next major economic crash is in our very near future. Dent is projecting that the Dow will fall to “5,500 to 6,000 by late 2017″, and Kiyosaki ...
DCCC expands Collateral Basket to include major G6 currencies
March 30th, 2016
The Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC), the central counter-party (CCP) for the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX), on Monday announced that Clearing members will now be able to deposit cash collateral to the Corporation in the form of ...
On suspending 12-month FX repo auctions
March 29th, 2016
The Bank of Russia decided to suspend, effective 1 April 2016, 12-month FX repo auctions, considering the lack of demand for these facilities from Russian credit institutions and its’ shift to 28-day FX repos. The Bank of Russia will continue to set the parameters for auctions to provide foreign currency on a reverse basis, ...
Asian shares slump as Yellen speech awaited
March 29th, 2016
Asian shares struggled to find their footing on Tuesday and the dollar clawed back ground lost after downbeat U.S. economic data contributed to an uninspiring session on Wall Street. European equities were expected to open around 0.5 percent higher ...
HSBC reports on Oil prices scenarios
March 24th, 2016
Despite hopes that lower oil prices will stabilise global growth, experience suggests otherwise. Growth was disappointing in 2015 even though the oil price had plunged in 2014. While developed-world consumer spending grew at the fastest rate since before the ...
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People
March 24th, 2016
Should central banks create money out of thin air and give it directly to governments and average citizens? If you can believe it, this is now under serious consideration. Since 2008, global central banks have cut interest rates 637 ...
