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Bonds Selloff Abates as Dollar Snaps Trump Rally; Oil Rebounds
November 15th, 2016
Emerging-market stocks, currencies have first gains in a week Japan bonds fall after auction; 10-year yield touches zero The fallout from Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency showed signs of moderating in financial markets with benchmark Treasuries and emerging-market ...
Gold and Bitcoin jumps after Trump win; investors seek safe assets
November 10th, 2016
Digital currency joins gold surge as bitcoin price climbs nearly 4% after Trump win Trump’s shock election wins sent shock-waves across the world’s financial markets. As uncertainty reigned supreme, investors turned away from equities and towards bitcoin. Joining the ...
How America’s new president will affect the global economy
November 10th, 2016
From trade war with China to jobs turmoil in Mexico, Trump’s reign will pose new threats to already fragile world economy Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections will have implications for the whole global economy. Mexico America’s ...
Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States
November 9th, 2016
It Is Time for Us to Come Together, Says Victorious Trump Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States in a stunning repudiation of the political establishment that jolted financial markets and likely will reorder the ...
China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
November 3rd, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. Headquartered in Shanghai, CFETS ...
Asia Stocks Drop With Mexican Peso as Election Angst Boosts Gold
November 2nd, 2016
Havens buoyed after poll shows Trump edging ahead of Clinton Kiwi climbs after jobs data damps outlook for more rate cuts A global equities selloff deepened in Asian trading and Mexico’s peso weakened as polls indicated a tightening race ...
Market Volatility Has Currency Traders Abandoning a Tool to Stop Losses
October 30th, 2016
Some currency investors, worried that events such as the pound’s recent collapse could become more common, are abandoning an automated trading mechanism that was supposed to protect them from losses after big market swings. The trading mechanism, known as ...
What Else Can Central Banks Do?
October 28th, 2016
Central banks all over the world took dramatic actions during the Great Recession and its aftermath. For example, the US Federal Reserve took the “federal funds” interest rate down to near-zero in December 2008 and left it there until ...
Alpari and the Republic of Mauritius in cooperation talks
October 25th, 2016
Alpari has issued a press release to inform regarding a meeting recently took place in the Republic of Mauritius between government officials, the country’s financial institutions and Alpari higher management. The meeting was to discuss priority areas of cooperation. ...
FIA joined four industry trade associations in a proposed guidance on central counterparty risk
October 24th, 2016
FIA joined four industry trade associations in a response to proposed guidance from the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) on resilience and recovery of central counterparties (CCPs). FIA, along with the Global Financial Markets ...
