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Citigroup Inc., the world’s biggest currency trader, says it’s “too soon” to buy the U.S. dollar after it slumped to a nine-month low and economic data came in stronger than forecast. A gauge of the dollar was little changed Monday after dropping 1...

Historically, the first trading session after a U.S jobs report tends to be the quietest trading session of the month. Yet, watching intraday asset price moves for 2016, no one could speculate with confidence that any trading session would be relatively tame...

Here’s why Governor Elvira Nabiullina is in no haste to resume foreign-currency purchases after an eight-month pause: gold’s biggest quarterly surge since 1986 has all but erased losses the Bank of Russia suffered by mounting a rescue of the ruble more than a year ago...

In the years following the Great Recession - the global downturn emanating from the US subprime mortgage collapse in 2007 - competing narratives trying to explain the crisis have emerged from professional and layman circles alike...

Falling oil prices, China growth fears, submerging markets, Brexit and Italian banks. All of those risks have one thing in common: They have not derailed the US economy. Despite concerns about a recession, it continues to grow at a steady pace...

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Dutch voters will decide on Wednesday whether to support a European treaty deepening ties with Ukraine in a referendum that will test sentiment toward Brussels ahead of Britain's June Brexit vote and could also bring a boost for Russia...

EURUSD has forced those with a bearish conviction to reconsider their outlook in recent weeks. The single currency is now up a healthy 570 pips since the March 10th ECB low at 1.0820 and a massive 880 pips since the December 3rd, 2015 ECB low at 1.0515...

Greece has demanded an explanation from the IMF over a leaked conversation in which top officials allegedly discuss the Greek bailout. A transcript, published by Wikileaks, shows the officials discussing ways of putting pressure on Greece, Germany and the EU to get them to wrap up talks...

Rapid gains in Americans finding jobs strongly implies the economy is running at above-average speed. But a broader measure of growth says the U.S. has stumbled since last fall. What’s to believe? Side with employment. Companies hire only if they are confident they can increase sales...

If we have learned anything from bull markets and bear markets, it is this: neither of them lasts indefinitely. This facts precipitating the global financial crisis of 2008 were covered in the financial press, ad-nauseam...

2016 was greeted with a bout of nerves over the fate of the Chinese economy and, perversely, a weak oil price. To a first approximation, American markets have recovered the ground lost, but European and Japanese markets remain well below the values seen at New Year...

Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or "karoshi", a phenomenon previously associated with the long-suffering "salary man" that is increasingly afflicting young and female employees. Labor demand, with 1...

This month’s jobs report was always going to be a tough one to predict – are they ever easy? But on this occasion it was extremely difficult because the nonfarm payrolls data was released before two of the most reliable leading indicators, the ISM Services and Manufacturing PMIs...

If you made investments in exchange-traded funds focused on gold and bet against those pegged to biotechnology, you would have made a pretty penny in the first quarter of 2016...

This week saw some interesting developments across the markets. Near term confirmation targets are approaching and the coming week could bring some explosive action for certain markets. So let’s try and get in position for those moves...

With second-tier data on tap for the week ahead, the British Pound may continue to consolidate ahead of the next Bank of England (BoE) interest-rate decision on April 14, but fresh rhetoric from Fed officials may generate a near-term rebound in GBP/USD as Chair Janet Yellen endorses a more dovish...

Friday’s jobs numbers, the closely watched data that can provide a deeper look into the economy, were mostly good, and while the markets took some time to digest them, they initially reacted well. Will that happen again this week? Markets also cheered a better-than-expected jump in activity at U...

A slowly improving economy is pulling discouraged Americans into the workforce, although some are having to settle for part-time jobs for now. That’s the message from the March employment report issued by the Labor Department Friday in Washington...

The Federal Reserve has not fallen behind the curve, according to Loretta Mester, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Mester spoke to the New York Association for Business Economics on Friday, and highlighted her outlook for the economy...