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Bloomberg: Stocks Mixed on New Front in Global Trade Dispute: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks pared gains and Treasuries fluctuated as renewed optimism for progress in Sino-American trade talks was hit by a spat over coal imports between Australia and China. The dollar climbed and the yuan extended gains. [more...]
Bloomberg: Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos
Walt Disney Co. is said to have pulled its advertising spending from YouTube, joining other companies including Nestle SA, after a blogger detailed how comments on Google’s video site were being used to facilitate a “soft-core pedophilia ring.” Some of the videos involved ran next to ads placed by Disney and Nestle. [more...]
Bloomberg: Fed Minutes Show Officials Unsure on Need for Rate Hikes in 2019
Federal Reserve officials widely favored ending the runoff of the central bank’s balance sheet this year while expressing uncertainty over whether they would raise interest rates again in 2019, minutes of their January meeting showed. [more...]
Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank Weighed Extending Trump Loans on Default Risk
Top Deutsche Bank AG executives were so concerned after the 2016 U.S. election that the Trump Organization might default on about $340 million of loans while Donald Trump was in office that they discussed extending repayment dates until after the end of a potential second term in 2025, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. [more...]
Bloomberg: Why the $9 Trillion Stock Rally Is Beginning to Look Tired
With more than $9 trillion restored to global stock markets in less than two months, investors are questioning if the rally has more legs. “Prices may have come too far, too fast,” said Bob Doll, senior portfolio manager at Nuveen LLC, which has about $930 billion in assets under management. “Markets could be due for consolidation or a pullback.” [more...]
Bloomberg: Diagnosing a Market Meltdown: What the Fed Said About December’s Stock Plunge
Federal Reserve officials turned into market analysts at Hindsight Capital LLC in the minutes of their January meeting. Policy makers offered a laundry list of reasons why U.S. equities came under severe pressure at the end of 2018, nearly falling into a bear market. [more...]
Bloomberg: Aussie's Crazy Day Shows Why It's Most Volatile Major Currency
The Australian dollar is showing why it has been the most volatile Group-of-10 currency in the past month, swinging about 1.7 percent just in one day. This is how Thursday’s events unfolded: the Aussie jumped on a surprise beat on jobs data, forcing traders to close short positions. [more...]
Bloomberg: Trump Warns EU of Car Tariffs as Commerce Probe Offers New Ammo
President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to impose tariffs on cars imported from the European Union if the U.S. can’t reach a trade deal with the EU, ratcheting up pressure amid already strained relations between the traditional allies. [more...]
Bloomberg: Swiss Investment Firm Dismisses Its Star Bond Manager
GAM Holding AG said it has dismissed star bond manager Tim Haywood as the slump sparked by his earlier suspension led to worse-than-expected outflows at the end of last year. [more...]
Bloomberg: Markets Are Too Complacent About Trade War, Morgan Stanley Wealth Says
Markets may be too optimistic about the U.S.-China trade dispute, according to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. The implied volatility of some assets that should be highly affected by trade news has been declining even as a further deterioration in the negotiations remains a risk, strategists including Scott Helfstein wrote in a note Tuesday. [more...]
Reuters: Exclusive: U.S., China sketch outlines of deal to end trade war - sources
The United States and China have started to outline commitments in principle on the stickiest issues in their trade dispute, marking the most significant progress yet toward ending a seven-month trade war, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. [more...]
Reuters: Remain or leave? Carmakers confront hard Brexit choices
In three cavernous former Royal Air Force hangars at an old airbase in Wales, luxury carmaker Aston Martin is forging ahead with construction of a new vehicle assembly plant. [more...]
CNBC: Barclays swings back to profit in 2018, sets aside nearly $200 million for Brexit
Barclays reported a full-year net profit of £1.4 billion ($1.82 billion) for 2018 on Thursday, swinging back to profit from 2017 losses. In 2017, the British bank posted a significant loss of £1.92 billion, after it was hit by a one-off £901 million charge on U.S. deferred tax assets. [more...]
CNBC: China's central bank is said to see benchmark rate cut as the last resort
China's central bank is not yet ready to cut benchmark interest rates to spur the slowing economy, despite cooling inflation and a stronger yuan, which have fanned market expectations of such a move, policy sources told Reuters. [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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