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Added topic Hilary and the Dollar
Just as there had been questions surrounding whether or not Hilary Clinton would be running for President, the period of consolidation in the greenback over the course of March and early April had many wondering whether the USD bull market had run
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Added topic Bullard Hints The Fed May Hike Rates Only To Cut Them Right After
If one needs to observe ample confusion by a central planner, one usually needs to look no further than St. Louis Fed's James Bullard, the same "hawk" who has been pressing for aggressive rate hiking throughout the last year except when the market
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Added topic GBP forecasts
Sterling’s Election Stumble: How To Play It? – BNPP The upcoming parliamentary elections in the UK on May 7th have already sent shivers and the pound could not sustain the moves against the euro and the dollar, despite a recent recovery. What’s next
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Added topic Steen Jakobsen: Get Ready For The Biggest Margin Call In History
Economist Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank, believes 2015 will be another "lost year" for the economy. And he predicts the Federal Reserve will indeed start to raise rates later this year, surprising the market and taking the
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Added topic You Think You’re An Investor? I Think Not
Let’s start with defining what an ‘investor’ really is. A reasonable definition of an investor seems to be ‘someone who puts money into risk bearing assets that promise to produce financial gains through – increased – productivity’. If we can agree
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Added topic HSBC: This Is the Beginning of the End of the U.S. Dollar's Bull Run
In a note to clients, HSBC's David Bloom argues that the U.S. dollar's bull run is nearing its end. There are five main points to the argument. The bolded points are their words, followed by our summaries. "The cycle is surprisingly EUR-USD bullish"
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Added topic Net Income Rises Significantly at Deutsche Bank – Up Over 110% YoY
Deutsche Bank reports firm earnings data for the full-year 2014, the banking institute announced net income before tax reaching $3.35 billion, with the move showing that the bank's 2012 restructuring paid off Leading banking institute, Deutsche Bank
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Added topic Swiss franc news
Talk of the SNB cutting rates deep into negative territory Chatter on the SNB cutting rates, other measures The SNB lost the EUR/CHF floor battle but they may not have given up on the currency war. Analysts at UBS spoke with Bloomberg and said the
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Added topic The currency wars have begun
Central banks around the globe are rushing to ease monetary policy as looming deflation and still-weak commodity prices weigh on growth expectations. On Wednesday, the Bank of Thailand cut rates, joining several of its neighbors in easing monetary
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Added topic 6 factors determine who gets to be a millionaire
We all recognize “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” as not just a popular game show, but also a ridiculous question. The obvious answer to the show’s title is, yes, everyone wants to be a millionaire, but few contestants or audience members can answer
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Added topic Greece's Euro Exit Seems Inevitable
Greece's money troubles resemble a game of pass the parcel, where each successive participant rips another sheet of wrapping paper off the box -- which turns out to be empty when the final recipient reaches the core. With time and money running out
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Added topic Greece Mulls Referendum as No Deal With Lenders in Sight
Greece’s anti-austerity coalition is considering calling a referendum on government policy as euro-area finance ministers are set to withhold further aid payments at a meeting in Brussels tomorrow. In separate interviews this weekend, Greece’s
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Added topic China's international payments system ready, could launch by end-2015
China's long-awaited international payment system to process cross-border yuan transactions is ready, and may be launched as early as September or October, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The launch of the China
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Added topic US Officially Joins Deflation Club in January
For the first time since the end of the Great Recession, US consumers paid less for goods and services than a year earlier, a government report showed on Thursday. The CPI fell 0.1% in January from a year earlier, the Department of Labor said on
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Added topic Here is Warren Buffett's $100 billion mistake
Warren Buffett's 50th annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders is out. In it, Buffett talks about the company's successes, but also its mistakes. (Mistake #1, in fact, was buying Berkshire Hathaway.) Buffett's next mistake, however, ended up
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Added topic What To Expect From The ECB
The ECB meets tomorrow. We do not attribute any significance to the fact that the meeting will be held in Cyprus. A couple times a year, the ECB meets outside of Frankfurt. There are three key elements of tomorrow's meeting, none of which entail a
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Added topic ECB Will Cut Rates To Minus 3%: JP Morgan
A running theme here over the past several weeks has been that the ECB’s €1.1 trillion foray into quantitative easing will be severely hindered by a laundry list of constraints (some of which were unwittingly self-imposed). Another topic we’ve
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Added topic There Are Two Big Problems With Deutsche Bank Failing The Fed's Stress Test
There are two big problems with Deutsche Bank failing the Fed's stress test as the WSJ just reported it would. This is what the WSJ reported moments ago: Large European banks including Deutsche Bank AG and Banco Santander SA are likely to fail the
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Added topic What will happen to EUR if ECB Fails On Its Promise? – Morgan Stanley
The implementation of the ECB’s massive QE program is just around the corner. How will it impact the exchange rate? And what happens if the balance sheet does not rise as expected? The team at Morgan Stanley provides some answers: Here is their view
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Added topic Greek list likely to be approved – will EUR/USD rise?
Reports are emerging that the list of reforms submitted by the Greek government will receive an approval. A Eurogroup teleconference commences at 13:00 GMT to debate this. Earlier in the day, the euro reflected some doubts and slid lower, yet within