Japan Industrial Output Tumbles 6.2% In February Industrial production in Japan fell a seasonally adjusted 6.2 percent on month in February, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Wednesday's preliminary reading - marking the largest single-month decline in five years...
When Makis Gounaris, a financial consultant based in Athens, decided to hire Spartan Security Ltd. to protect his apartment in September, he was told to choose from three payment options: cash, credit, or barter. Gounaris paid his entire bill in “TradePoints” using Greek barter network TradeNow...
It's official: June is off the table. On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered remarks before the Economic Club of New York. The tone was decidedly dovish, with the dollar falling, Treasurys rallying, and stocks moving higher following the speech's release...
Dollar Weakening After Yellen Stresses Need For Caution The dollar is losing ground against all of its major rivals Tuesday afternoon. The U.S. currency began to weaken after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's highly anticipated speech to the Economic Club of New York this afternoon...
Brent: Oil Market is Now Uncertain According to US Energy Department, last week oil and oil products reserves in the USA increased by 9.357 million barrels. Statistics released by API showed that oil reserves have increased by 8.7 million barrels...
Brent: The Price can Go Below the Level of 41.50 The price of crude oil Brent failed to overcome resistance level of 41.50, which was mentioned in our previous review of 23.03.2016 “the rise can be continued in case of breakdown of the levels of 41.50 and 42...
For more than a century, the Economic Club of New York has served as one of the nation's leading nonpartisan forums for discussion of economic policy issues. It is an honor to appear before you today to speak about the Federal Reserve's pursuit of maximum employment and price stability...
During a recent visit to the United Kingdom, I was struck by the extent to which the question of whether the country should remain in the European Union is dominating the media, boardroom discussions, and dinner conversations...
CNY: Tail-sizing – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, tries to answer the question that how large was the tail on Chinese growth and FX now. Key Quotes “Some suggested China was not the main tail risk for markets anymore, rather it was Europe (refugee crisis, Brexit, terrorism...
Oil in Global Economy Series: Saudi Games Not Working After more than a year into deployment, cracks are now plenty to conclude that Saudi Arabia’s strategy to keep production high, drive out high cost producers and increase/retain its market share has failed...
U.S Treasury Trades Flat Ahead of Yellen's Speech The U.S. sovereign bonds were flat on Tuesday as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve’s Chair Janet Yellen which could give further indications for next interest rate hike, despite weak economic data on Monday...
Barclays Warns Over Commodity Longs UK’s investment bank, Barclays has issued warning against recent rallies in commodities and investors; interest in commodity products both stocks as well as ETFs...
Currency Markets Likely to See increased Volatility on Fed Hike Expectations The dollar staged a nice bounce-back from post FOMC lows supported by both safe-haven flows as a result of the Brussels terror attacks, as well as surprisingly hawkish comments from Fed officials in recent days...
Asia FX: Don’t Drive with Flat Tyres – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, had held to their view that the recent risk rally was not to be chased in Asian FX as both wheels of the Asian growth cycle were slowly deflating, with the export cycle in deep negative territory and the credit c...
Will Yellen Reinforce Her Comments from FOMC Meeting? - MUFG Derek Halpenny, European Head of GMR at MUFG, suggests that on a DXY basis, the US dollar is close to unchanged from the pre-Easter London holiday close underlining the lack of drivers for the dollar over the vacation period...
JPY: PM Abe Dampens Speculation of Sales Tax Postponement - MUFG Derek Halpenny, European Head of GMR at MUFG, notes that the PM Abe spoke in the Diet today and was clear that the government was not considering postponing the planned sales tax increase from 8% to 10% scheduled for April 2017, arg...
Fed Chair Yellen’s Speech in the Limelight Today – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, suggests that we are due to hear from Fed Chair Yellen, speaking at the Economic Club of New York (scheduled for 4.20pm GMT...
US Really Ready for Hike as Markets Confused and Yellen Speaks Today – Investec Research Team at Investec, notes that over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, the US Dollar stumbled after what had been several sessions of strength on increasing rate hike optimism...
Top 5 Things to Know In the Market on Tuesday Here are the top five things you need to know in financial markets on Tuesday, March 29: 1...
