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Mario Draghi's latest batch of measures to boost the euro-area economy comes with a sting in the tail for companies and anyone hoping to retire comfortably one day.Extending quantitative easing to include non-bank corporate bonds is poised to make life even tougher for company pension plans...

Oil prices have climbed by about 50 percent from their February lows, topping $40 per barrel. But the rally could be reaching its limits, at least temporarily, as persistent oversupply and the prospect of new shale production caps any potential price increase. U.S...

The economic costs of the UK leaving the European Union would outweigh the potential benefits and would have credit implications for a range of bond issuers, including the UK government, banks, insurers and non-financial companies, Moody's Investors Service said in a report published today...

A fairly uneventful session has left AUDJPY coiling even tighter following the 650-pip rally that commenced on March 1st. I commented on the pair shortly after it began its ascent, noting the two channels I was keeping an eye on at the time. You can read that commentary here...

The USD/CAD has collapsed after its parabolic rise ended in mid-January, when oil prices first showed signs of stabilisation. Since peaking at just shy of 1.4700, the Loonie has tumbled to below 1.30, hitting a low of 1.2925 last week...

Derek Holt, vice president of economics at Scotiabank, doesn't mince words with his thoughts about the Federal Reserve's now-infamous "dot plot...

New Zealand’s central bank has initiated a probe into an alleged leak of its surprise decision to cut the official cash rate earlier this month...

European stocks have moved back into positive territory on Monday, having spent the early part of the trading session in the red, driven lower in part by commodity stocks are likely to continue to weigh. U.S...

The US dollar is beginning the week mostly firmer against the major and emerging market currencies. The Japanese yen, where local markets were closed for the spring equinox is up slightly, and the Australian dollar turned higher in the European session...

Fed's Williams with some unscheduled comments: • Basic contour and path of rate hikes has not changed • US has proved remarkably resilient to global factors • If not for global risks, Fed would raise rates sooner and faster • Sees rate hikes soon given encouraging data Williams is Mr Data Dependa...

EURUSD continued its climb higher last week after finding support at the key 1.1060 handle. This came after further action from the ECB on March 10th fueled a 400-pip rally that put the pair well above the area. The coming week offers a fairly tight range between new support at 1...

As brazen heists go, it was a quiet one. Over a single weekend in February, hackers managed to extract tens of millions of dollars from Bangladesh's central bank before anyone noticed. Now the bank is in turmoil, its governor has resigned and much of the cash is missing...

Not since 1999 have China's companies had so much trouble getting customers to actually pay for what they've bought. It now takes about 83 days for the typical Chinese firm to collect cash for completed sales, almost twice as long as emerging-market peers...

The difference between success and failure in Forex trading is very likely to depend upon which currency pairs you choose to trade each week, and not on the exact trading methods you might use to determine trade entries and exits...

People are worried about bond market liquidity. Barely a day goes by without someone adding to the chorus complaining about difficult trading conditions...

EUR/USD backed down from the post-Draghi highs only to shoot even higher on the Fed’s dovishness. The highlights for the upcoming week are the dual German business surveys as well as PMIs. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an updated technical analysis for EUR/USD...

The Dollar has taken a nasty spill, but how do we reconcile the recent decline against years of rally and the proximity of a near-decade high? In the past three weeks, USDollar has dropped as much as three person – the most aggressive slide from the world’s most liquid currency since June of 2013...

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann continued his campaign to curb the ECB's ambitions. "Instead of suggesting ever more reckless monetary policy experiments, it would make sense to pause," he told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper...

Yellen dealt a heavy blow to the FX divergence trade and sent USD falling across the board. We doubt that this is the end of the multi-year USD bull-run, however, and see the current levels as an opportunity to establish fresh longs...