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The sentiment seems to be back to bullish. Gold keeps on declining and is now below $1300. North Korea tensions are still there but markets seems not to worry much on a possible escalation. The dollar has been recently strengthened after weakening since the start of the year...
The primary headline of Angela Merkel winning a historic 4th term is the one that will likely drive market activity...
Next week starts on Sunday, at least for German voters, who are asked to cast their vote in the federal election. Opinion polls point firmly to Angela Merkel retaining the chancellery, to which CIO attaches a 90 percent likelihood. CIO expects the short-term market reaction to be somewhat muted...
Crypto-currencies like Bitcoin fail two key tests of what makes a currency a currency, Global chief economist Paul Donovan argues in the new 'Thought of the Week'. No currency has a natural value. The fact that Bitcoin is just computer code doesn't matter...
The EURCHF pair has reached its highest level since the floor was abandoned in January 2015. The pair has even reached 1.1620 CHF for one euro coin. The bullish move is mostly due because of the anticipation of the asset purchase program being reduced by the ECB in October...
Chinese equities ended lower for the second day in a row after Standard & Poor’s stripped China of AA- rating. The Shanghai Composite fell as much as 0...
During the night, the Bank of Japan has announced its rate remain on hold. It is certain that the Bank of Japan was also closely looking towards the Fed which had its meeting yesterday night...
As widely expected, the FOMC finally triggered the process to reduce the size of its $4.5tn balance sheet...
he big news event on 20 September will be the report of the US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee – we believe the central bank will finally announce plans to start selling its massive holding of bonds. This is likely to begin in October. Meanwhile, the Fed is unlikely to move interest rates...