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Bloomberg: Stock Rally Fades in Asia as Dollar Recovers: Markets Wrap
Stocks in Asia were mixed Tuesday as investors waited to see whether the outcome of fresh talks on trade will be productive and ahead of a televised address from U.S. President Donald Trump. The dollar snapped three days of declines and Treasuries steadied. [more...]
Bloomberg: Housing Bear Who Called 2018 Slowdown Says Worst Yet to Come
James Stack, who predicted the 2008 real estate crash and nailed last year’s housing slowdown with uncanny timing, is back with some bad news for 2019. [more...]
Bloomberg: Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
To deliver an electric vehicle that’s cheaper, safer and capable of traveling 500 miles on a single charge, the auto industry needs a breakthrough in battery technology. Easier said than done. [more...]
Bloomberg: Samsung Feels Apple's Pain as Technology Slowdown Hits Sales
Samsung Electronics Co.’s quarterly profit and sales missed estimates on sputtering demand for memory chips during the last three months of 2018, the same quarter that Apple Inc. reported anemic sales in China. [more...]
Bloomberg: Three Reasons Trump’s Trade War Will Become a Pain for the U.S. Economy
President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is about to start causing some real pain for the U.S. economy, according to Bank of America Corp. analysts. [more...]
Bloomberg: SoftBank Plans Reduced $2 Billion Investment in WeWork
SoftBank Group Corp. has decided against taking a controlling stake in real estate company WeWork Cos. and is instead planning to make a smaller $2 billion investment, according to people familiar with the matter. [more...]
Bloomberg: Hedge Fund Titans Baupost, D.E. Shaw Caught in PG&E Value Trap
Top hedge funds scooped up or held shares of PG&E Corp. in the third quarter, with the beaten down stock of the California utility appearing to be a good value. Since then it has taken more pounding. [more...]
Bloomberg: Virtual Currencies To Go Down as ‘Load of Nonsense,” Says ECB's Hansson
Crypto currencies will probably die as a “complete load of nonsense,” according to European Central Bank policy maker Ardo Hansson. [more...]
Bloomberg: What One Trader Learned By Riding The Bitcoin Boom All The Way Up Then All The Way Down
The last two years have been an extraordinary ride for Bitcoin. It exploded in 2017, with the price nearing $20,000 per coin. Then in 2018 it totally collapsed. [more...]
Reuters: More U.S. regions see job openings outnumbering jobless
Job openings are outnumbering unemployed workers across increasingly wide swaths of the United States, forcing businesses to rethink how they find workers, which could keep pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates despite a global economic slowdown. [more...]
Reuters: Asian shares run out of gas; investors look to Sino-U.S. trade talks, Fed policy
Asian shares dipped on Tuesday, running out of steam after a brief rally sparked by hopes that Washington and Beijing may be inching towards a trade deal and that U.S. Federal Reserve would halt its tightening if economic growth slows further. [more...]
CNBC: Samsung guidance shocks: fourth-quarter profit 18 percent less than market expected
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter earnings likely decreased sharply due to lackluster demand in its memory chip business as well growing competition in the smartphone segment. [more...]
CNBC: Apple and Tesla shares on the blockchain could be the next big thing in crypto
Cryptocurrencies had a wild 2018, tumbling well below some of the record highs seen toward the end of 2017. Bitcoin, once worth almost $20,000, plunged last year, closing out 2018 at a price below $4,000. Other major virtual currencies, including XRP and ether, also fell steeply. [more...] |
Currency Strength Indicators
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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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