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Monday was a mixed start to the week, but overall it was relatively quiet. Most currencies were flat and only the Yen and the AUD showed some real movements. The performance map below confirms that and we will also see that the AUDUSD and the USDJPY showed the best moves...

Gold continued to be weighed down along with other major commodities on Monday despite persisting weakness in the US dollar and lowered expectations for further Fed rate hikes...

The dollar edged lower on Monday on contradictory views of prospects for an increase in U.S. interest rates, while oil prices stayed under pressure on skepticism producers would be able to freeze output to stem a global glut. A usually dovish U.S...

What are the economic consequences of leaving the EU? This question is at the heart of the Brexit debate. Some studies address this question by analysing how countries fared after joining the EU (see Campos et al. 2014 or the survey by Crafts 2016). In recent work (Dhingra et al...

Negative interest rates, which central banks in several countries have implemented as a way to spur economic growth, is a radical move. In part two of a three-part series, ‘Negative Thinking,’ commentator Satyajit Das examines this policy and its risks...

Falling oil prices are driving a slight bid in the Japanese currency, strategists say Falling oil prices helped support haven bids in the yen on Monday as Japanese stocks weakened while expectations for a slower pace of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes sapped demand for the dollar...

America's "exorbitant privilege" of being able to pay its bills in the currency it prints at a zero marginal cost has been a matter of great controversy ever since the term was coined in the mid-1960s by the former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who was serving as a young finance mini...

The Japanese yen held a firm tone versus the dollar Monday, with dollar-yen nearing key support around Y111.00, despite inflation data released earlier suggesting scope for new Bank of Japan easing action at the conclusion of its two-day meeting on April 28...

The Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates this year before markets currently expect since risks to the U.S. economy from abroad are fading, a top Fed official said on Monday. In a confident-sounding speech for a typically dovish U.S...

Greece could again face the threat of being pushed into default and out of the euro if its current bailout review drags on into June and July, according to European officials monitoring the slow progress of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s negotiations with creditors...

The secret ingredient if you want to become a full time trader – what nobody talks about Rolf - Tradeciety...

Citigroup Inc., the world’s biggest currency trader, says it’s “too soon” to buy the U.S. dollar after it slumped to a nine-month low and economic data came in stronger than forecast. A gauge of the dollar was little changed Monday after dropping 1...

Historically, the first trading session after a U.S jobs report tends to be the quietest trading session of the month. Yet, watching intraday asset price moves for 2016, no one could speculate with confidence that any trading session would be relatively tame...

Here’s why Governor Elvira Nabiullina is in no haste to resume foreign-currency purchases after an eight-month pause: gold’s biggest quarterly surge since 1986 has all but erased losses the Bank of Russia suffered by mounting a rescue of the ruble more than a year ago...

In the years following the Great Recession - the global downturn emanating from the US subprime mortgage collapse in 2007 - competing narratives trying to explain the crisis have emerged from professional and layman circles alike...

Falling oil prices, China growth fears, submerging markets, Brexit and Italian banks. All of those risks have one thing in common: They have not derailed the US economy. Despite concerns about a recession, it continues to grow at a steady pace...

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Dutch voters will decide on Wednesday whether to support a European treaty deepening ties with Ukraine in a referendum that will test sentiment toward Brussels ahead of Britain's June Brexit vote and could also bring a boost for Russia...