2014-10-14 00:30 GMT (or 02:30 MQ MT5 time) | [AUD - NAB Business Confidence] past data is 7 forecast data is n/a actual data is 5 according to the latest press release if actual > forecast (or actual data) = good for currency (for EUR in our case...
Finland's prime minister suggested on Monday that Apple could be to blame for the demise of its two biggest industries, which in turn led to an economic downturn and a ratings downgrade for the Nordic country. "We have two champions which went down," Alexander Stubb told CNBC Monday...
The dollar declined for the first time in three days after Federal Reserve officials said a worldwide economic slowdown may delay interest-rate increases, damping demand for the U.S. currency. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index has lost 1.4 percent since reaching the highest since June 2010 on Oct...
India's consumer price inflation eased more-than-expected in September as the pace of increase in food prices slowed sharply, preliminary data from the Central Statistics Office showed Monday. The consumer price index rose 6.46 percent year-on-year after a 7...
Russia's central bank spent around $6 billion in the past ten days to defend the country's currency ruble, the Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said Monday...
Sounding a more dovish note on monetary policy than he has in recent months, the governor of the Bank of England said in a rare interview with CNBC on Saturday that global weakness, lower inflation and troubles in European economies would influence policy at the bank's meeting next month...
By: Mike Paterson The Telegraph reports that a financial crash to rival the one caused by Lehman Brothers' collapse will be played out next week, in a “war game” designed to help end the “too big to fail” problem...
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—A stronger U.S. dollar is an obstacle to the Federal Reserve’s ability to meet its inflation mandate and will impede growth, Charles Evans, the president of the Chicago Fed, said on Saturday...
The Bank of Japan won’t reach its 2 percent inflation target next year and needs to manage expectations, according to the International Monetary Fund. “The BOJ hasn’t lowered the flag on that yet,” Naoyuki Shinohara, a deputy managing director at the IMF, said in an interview in Washington...
Mario Draghi’s policy tools are being blunted in Berlin. The European Central Bank president has stopped short of large-scale sovereign-bond purchases as efforts to mollify Germany’s political elite do little to silence criticism of his ever-more expansionary measures...
FRANKFURT--German exports in August suffered their biggest monthly fall since January 2009, adding to a recent spate of dismal economic indicators from Europe's largest economy, data from the country's Federal Statistics Office showed Thursday. Exports plunged by 5...
There are many ways to measure the deepening financial crisis spreading across Russia. The ruble is sinking more than any other currency in the world, foreign reserves have plunged to a four-year low and the economy is teetering toward recession. Galina Mityaeva measures it in centimeters...
PARIS--The French economy returned to only slight growth in the third quarter of this year and business sentiment remains weak, a survey by the Bank of France indicated Wednesday. The monthly survey by the central bank forecasts that the eurozone's second largest economy expanded 0...
On Wednesday, both the Japanese yen and the Australian dollar declined in Asia with China markets back to action after a week-long holiday...
MOSCOW--The Bank of Russia has intervened to shore up the ruble, shifting the currency's trading corridor again following its drop to record lows Monday on foreign-exchange markets, according to latest data from the central bank...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of Japan kept its policy unchanged Tuesday as widely expected, adding no new easing...
One of the worst days in the history of cryptocurrency trading: leading digital currency Bitcoin fell to the session’s lowest figures, altcoins like Litecoin, Dogecoin and Darkcoin also crashed by huge margins...
In a few weeks, we reach the beginning of that six-month stretch when stocks over the decades have tended to perform at their best. But looking ahead, David Kotok, chairman of Cumberland Advisors and a respected value investor, is decidedly cautious...
Speaking at the Institute of Directors’ annual convention in the Royal Albert Hall, Jon Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation claimed that “When it clicks, we’re going to reach an inflection point and Bitcoin will become the new gold...
This weekend Financial Secretary John Tsang admitted that the government was not psychologically prepared for such scale of the protests...
