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Who won yesterday’s election – the Catalexit crowd or the Remain-in-Spain supporters? It’s not clear! Both sides are claiming victory, and the parliament is split. Separatist parties took 70 of the 135 seats, but the pro-Spain Citizens Party won the most seats, 36...
It’s retracement time for Bitcoin: investors are taking profits, pushing the price back to around $13,000. For cryptocurrencies this is normal, i.e. boom and bust. We do not see this as a bubble bursting – it is a healthy correction...
The Swiss watch industry’s exports of traditional watches rose 5.8% to CHF 1.98 billion. Not only is this a boost to sector with six years of sales declines, but a hopeful sign for 2018. Exports to China increased a whopping 39...
As expected, the Bank of Japan kept rates unchanged at -0.1%, and the 10-year bond target stayed at 0%. BoJ officials expressed their confidence that the inflation will rise toward its target of 2%. The BoJ were also happy about the Q3 economic growth of an annualised 2.5...
The greenback continued to weaken for three straight sessions, as traders rotated into EUR and emerging market currencies. The Trump tax cut’s positive effect on equites is beginning to fade...
The total holdings of the Bank of Japan’s is now standing at all-time high. The Japanese quantitative easing has sent the level of debt very high because of the massive quantitative easing over the past decade. It has been a while that the sustainability of such a debt level is being questioned...
With a warning from US Federal Reserve banker Neel Kashkari that increasing interest could trigger a recession, dollar doves are alive and vocal. We believe they will prevail enough to block some additional hikes...
Global markets are celebrating US tax reform. Asian stocks followed the record session on Wall Street. This bull market keeps running past forecasts, and profit-taking to lock in a solid year is not happening. The World Bank increased its forecast for China’s economic growth in 2017 to 6...
20k on target. (By Yann Quelenn ) • Bitcoin's bullish momentum is far fom over. The technical structure has shown a tremendous positive short-term momentum. Hourly support...