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Latest News Headlines
Bloomberg: Violent Stock Reversals Are Coming Faster Than Any Time Since 2011
So far, there have been six days this quarter when stocks completely reversed an intraday move of at least 1 percent, the most since 2011, when Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign rating, sending stocks to the brink of a bear market. [more...] Bloomberg: Stocks, Yuan Rise on U.S.-China Trade Optimism: Markets Wrap
Asian equities climbed with U.S. and European stock futures and the offshore yuan following positive signs on the outlook for U.S.-China trade talks. Equity benchmarks rose in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the Aussie ticked higher. [more...]
Bloomberg: China Move to Cut Duties on U.S. Imports Lifts Auto Stocks
Progress toward easing the steep tariffs China imposed on U.S. vehicle imports this year lifted carmaker stocks across the globe, as investors wagered on a thawing of tensions that have damaged the world’s biggest automotive market. [more...]
Bloomberg: Huawei CFO Gains Bail in Canada as U.S. Seeks Extradition
Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was granted bail by a Canadian court, allowing the executive to stay in her Vancouver home as she awaits a possible extradition to the U.S. over fraud charges. [more...]
Bloomberg: U.S. Stocks End a Volatile Day Where They Started: Markets Wrap
U.S. stocks ended little changed after a volatile session as investors weighed the prospects for a trade deal and an agreement to fund the American government. [more...]
Bloomberg: The Two Best-Performing U.S. Stocks Aren't Getting Analyst Love
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc. are the two best performing stocks in the S&P 500 this year, but they aren’t getting much love from technology analysts. [more...]
Bloomberg: Here Are Nomura's 9 ‘Gray Swans’ That Could Hit Markets in 2019
Hot on the heels of HSBC’s top 10 risks for 2019, Nomura’s annual “Gray Swans” listicle has just hit inboxes. After a year of chaos, you get the feeling they really had to dig deep to come up with some potential shocks. [more...]
Bloomberg: Rand Ousts Lira as Wild Child of Emerging-Market Currencies
The South African rand is reasserting itself as the wild child of emerging markets. The currency’s price swings have been the widest among 24 of its peers in the past week as risk assets have been rocked by everything from concern over the U.S.-China trade dispute to Britain’s Brexit confusion. In that time, the rand has shed 3.5 percent against the dollar. [more...]
Bloomberg: Buyer Beware: A Guide to Emerging Asia in 2019
As emerging-market bulls start to signal the worst may be over, domestic risks across Asia are worth keeping in mind for 2019: from central-bank autonomy in India to the price of rice in the Philippines. [more...]
Reuters: Exclusive: Trump says Fed shouldn't hike rates, but calls Powell 'a good man'
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday it would be a mistake if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates when it meets next week, as it is expected to do, continuing his criticism of the U.S. central bank. [more...]
Reuters: Oil prices rise on Asian stock rally, OPEC-led cuts
Oil prices climbed by around 1 percent on Wednesday amid a stock market rebound and on expectations that an OPEC-led output cut for 2019 would stabilize the supply-demand balance. [more...]
CNBC: ‘Forced tech transfer’ has to stop or be regulated, says EU ambassador to China
The European Union has a vested interest in promoting technology exchanges with China, but any transfers should be regulated, said the trade bloc’s ambassador to China on Wednesday. [more...] CNBC: Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: ‘Gigantic holes in the system’
Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told a New York audience she fears there could be another financial crisis because banking regulators have seen reductions in their authority to address panics and because of the current push to deregulate. [more...] |
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The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair.
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