Dollar

Light is cast on U.S. one-hundred dollar bill next to Japanese 10,000 yen note in Tokyo

Dollar hits two-week high on rate hike bets

13/05/2016(0)
The dollar hit a two-week high against a basket of currencies on Friday, posting its best fortnightly performance since February, bolstered by the view that the U.S. Federal Reserve ... Read More
markets

Asia trades lower, as oil prices drop; Westpac shares down 3.7%

12/05/2016(0)
Asian stocks fell modestly Thursday, taking cues from declines in U.S. stocks after a string of top-flight retail companies released disappointing earnings. The U.S. markets falls came despite gains ... Read More
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Sterling slips as Brexit looms large again

11/05/2016(0)
Sterling slipped against the euro and dollar on Wednesday, with investors worried that the latest polls still show Britons who want to leave the European Union at a referendum ... Read More
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Oil prices dip as strong dollar outweighs supply disruptions

06/05/2016(0)
Oil prices fell on Friday, dragged down by a surging dollar and sliding Chinese commodities which at least temporarily outweighed crude supply disruptions in Canada as a result of ... Read More
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Oil prices dip on looming production race between Saudi Arabia, Iran

26/04/2016(0)
Crude oil futures dipped on Tuesday as analysts warned of an intensifying producer race between Saudi Arabia and Iran, wiping out earlier price gains that came from a weaker ... Read More
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Oil falls as traders cash in after three weeks of gains

25/04/2016(0)
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. ... Read More
A pedestrian stands near a sign displaying the cost of gasoline at a filling station in San Francisco

Tame U.S. inflation supports Fed’s cautious rate policy

15/04/2016(0)
U.S. consumer prices barely rose in March and underlying inflation slowed, suggesting little urgency for a cautious Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in the near term. The benign ... Read More
Moscow Exchange

Markit adds Moscow Exchange to FX trading connectivity network

14/04/2016(0)
Markit, a leading global provider of financial information services and the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), Russia”s multifunctional exchange platform, today announced that Markit”s FX pricing distribution hub service added MOEX ... Read More
Asian Stocks

Asian shares at four-month highs

14/04/2016(0)
Asian stocks rose to their highest levels in more than four months on Thursday and regional currencies weakened led by the Singapore dollar as hopes grew that more central ... Read More
A man looks at an electronic board displaying the Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo

Asia shares near 2016 highs as China trade rebounds

13/04/2016(0)
Asian shares came close to their highs for the year on Wednesday after surprisingly upbeat Chinese trade data offered hope the Asian giant was finally stabilising, underpinning both risk ... Read More
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