Spanish financial markets jumped on Monday before slipping into the red after regional elections in Catalonia, welcoming a result that although secessionists won a parliamentary majority, there appeared not to have advanced a broader case for independence from Spain...
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28 September 2015, 14:25 #stocks
Today's significant volatility is a result of the world gradually coming to an awareness that global growth will never be the same again. Will a 2008-like crash follow? - many ask...
Analytics & Forecasts
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26 September 2015, 17:21 #stocks, S&P 500
Kit Juckes, global strategist at Société Générale, has noted that for the past two months, the movements of the world's reserve currency - the U.S. dollar - have been extraordinary...
Analytics & Forecasts
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23 September 2015, 20:02 #usd/jpy, forex news, EUR/USD
“Somebody needs to reconfigure their computer models and recognize that U.S. dollar strength is a headwind to this market,” says Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist, in a note to clients. There’s more on that yen/S&P 500 action in his chart today...
Currency
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23 September 2015, 11:27 #FOMC, stocks, S&P 500
Like it or not, what the Fed decides to do later in the day will affect the value of the bitcoin that you hold, at least in the short term...
Currency
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17 September 2015, 13:46 #Cryptocurrency, FOMC, bitcoin
With hours to go before the Fed meeting, analysts keep guessing and estimating what outcome is in front of us. Meanwhile, MarketWatch columnist and the author of Hulbert Sentiment Index says: Who cares?! You will be able to earn with either outcome...
Analytics & Forecasts
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16 September 2015, 13:54 #investing, Trading, Fed
Ignore the warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank about the dangers of tightening. That was the message of former European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet for Fed chair Janet Yellen, with just two days before the highly anticipated Fed meeting...
Analytics & Forecasts
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15 September 2015, 19:11 #Janet Yellen, IMF, ECB
“The Fed missed an entire interest rate cycle,” said Jim Rickards, author of "Currency Wars" and "The Death of Money", in his newsletter with West Shore Funds...
Analytics & Forecasts
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15 September 2015, 11:55 #QE, China, Fed
American Nobel Prize Laureate, Yale University economics professor, economist and best-selling author Robert Shiller is seriously worried about the stock market...
Analytics & Forecasts
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14 September 2015, 12:37 #stocks, Fed
Greece is still an extremely painful spot for the European Union, despite the multi-month negotiations, agreements, broken agreements and fresh agreements...
Analytics & Forecasts
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12 September 2015, 17:46 #Troika, IMF, economy news