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The USD tumbled against the CAD after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered a speech at the Economic Club of New York...
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Francis Dogbe, 30 March 2016, 08:34
European investors return on Tuesday following the long bank holiday weekend and while the trading week may be a little shorter it’s likely to be quite eventful, with particular interest being on the Federal Reserve ahead of its April meeting...
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Francis Dogbe, 30 March 2016, 07:16 #Interest Rate, Fed
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Investor Adventures, 29 March 2016, 18:46 #gold
A laggard in embracing the "fintech", or financial technology, revolution, Japan is set to ease investment restrictions that could free up the flow of capital in an economy sitting on an estimated $US9 trillion in individuals' cash deposits...
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Francis Dogbe, 28 March 2016, 07:39
Every three months, the U.S. Federal Reserve publishes a chart -- known as the "dot plot" -- showing where various officials think the central bank's interest-rate target should be over the next few years. And every three months, investors and the media consistently misinterpret it...
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Francis Dogbe, 24 March 2016, 00:06 #Fed
Tom Hayes, a former star trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for manipulating Libor interest rates, was on Wednesday ordered to pay 878,806 pounds ($1.25 million) by a judge or face further time in prison...
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Francis Dogbe, 23 March 2016, 21:57 #Interest Rate, Trading
Almost one year ago to the day the chief economist at the Bank of England, Andrew Haldane, gave a speech about the persistent weakness in underlying inflation and the implications for monetary policy...
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Francis Dogbe, 23 March 2016, 07:21 #Interest Rate
Credit Suisse Group AG founded a venture with Silicon Valley’s Palantir Technologies Inc. that aims to catch rogue employees before they can harm the bank, employing the expertise of a firm seed-funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that’s better known for identifying terrorists...
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Francis Dogbe, 22 March 2016, 22:43
New Zealand’s central bank has initiated a probe into an alleged leak of its surprise decision to cut the official cash rate earlier this month...
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Francis Dogbe, 21 March 2016, 22:44
As brazen heists go, it was a quiet one. Over a single weekend in February, hackers managed to extract tens of millions of dollars from Bangladesh's central bank before anyone noticed. Now the bank is in turmoil, its governor has resigned and much of the cash is missing...
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Francis Dogbe, 21 March 2016, 06:30
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Pankaj D Costa, 20 March 2016, 19:46
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann continued his campaign to curb the ECB's ambitions. "Instead of suggesting ever more reckless monetary policy experiments, it would make sense to pause," he told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper...
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Francis Dogbe, 20 March 2016, 07:40 #ECB
1. The Fed is worried about global growth The big change in the statement was inserting a line saying "Global economic developments continue to pose risks...
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Francis Dogbe, 16 March 2016, 22:31 #Fed
Central banks will be in focus this week, with monetary policy decisions due from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the U.S. Federal Reserve...
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Francis Dogbe, 14 March 2016, 05:51 #Fed
Fixed exchange rates limit the degrees of freedom for policymakers. The breakdown of Bretton Woods in 1971 removed this constraint on official action, and the results were larger budget deficit and higher inflation. The zero bound on interest rates also posed a constraint on behavior...
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Francis Dogbe, 13 March 2016, 23:05
Dear Traders, On Sunday the 13th of March 2016, the Pepperstone MT4 Server time will move one hour forwards to GMT +3 hours. Pepperstone uses 5pm New York time as the basis for our daily candle close, the internationally recognised end-of-day in forex markets...
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Pankaj D Costa, 11 March 2016, 09:13
A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said...
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Francis Dogbe, 11 March 2016, 06:23
Reports indicate that some of the stolen funds were traced to the Philippines, but given what we know about the "Cyber Axis of Evil," we can only suspect it was Iranians, Chinese, or the criminal/military mastermind Kim Jong-Un who was behind the scam, but whatever the case, someone, somewhere, h...
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Francis Dogbe, 7 March 2016, 22:00
It was a fairly good week for shares of retail forex brokers. (At least for some of them...
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Francis Dogbe, 7 March 2016, 20:00
When I was growing up, the only person whose job involved any sort of automation was George Jetson. Today however, automation makes part of the development of products we use in our everyday life and will continue to infiltrate industries and enterprises across the globe in the years to come...
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Francis Dogbe, 7 March 2016, 13:31 #Trading