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Bloomberg: Stocks Swing on Heavy Volume as Trade War Heats Up: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks swung in a volatile session and U.S. futures dropped after American tariff hikes kicked in on Chinese goods and China vowed to take countermeasures in response. [more...]
Bloomberg: U.S. Hikes Tariffs on $200B of Chinese Goods. China Says It Will Retaliate
The U.S. hiked tariffs on more than $200 billion in goods from China on Friday in the most dramatic step yet of President Donald Trump’s push to extract trade concessions, deepening a conflict that has roiled financial markets and cast a shadow over the global economy. [more...]
Bloomberg: China Is Armed With Powerful Market Weapons in Duel With Trump
China has a powerful financial-market arsenal for its trade tussle with America, including a hoard of Treasuries and its currency. But using those weapons is not without cost. [more...]
Bloomberg: Tariff Clock Is Ticking as Crucial U.S.-China Talks Wrap for Day
U.S. and China trade negotiators wrapped up their first day of talks as the Trump administration prepared to ramp up tariffs, deepening a conflict that has roiled financial markets and cast a shadow over the global economy. [more...]
Bloomberg: A Short Seller Bets It All on a Spectacular Market Crash
Russell Clark’s entry into the high-stakes world of investing could hardly have been less promising. As a graduate trainee at UBS Group AG in Sydney, he was wowed by friends getting rich by day-trading tech stocks in 2000. So he spent his first few paychecks on five dot-com shares. [more...]
Bloomberg: Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver’s Housing Boom
Vancouver penthouses, ski chalets at Whistler, and holiday retreats in the Gulf Islands are among the thousands of properties identified in a dirty money probe that estimates more than C$7 billion ($5 billion) was laundered through the western Canadian province of British Columbia last year. [more...]
Bloomberg: Global Stock Losses Hit $2.1 Trillion Ahead of Tariff Deadline
We are hours away from additional tariffs getting slapped on Chinese goods, with the U.S. and China in pivotal trade negotiations. Fear has gripped markets and the level of sensitivity to any trade headline is extremely high. [more...]
Reuters: U.S. hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, China says to strike back
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff increase to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect on Friday, and Beijing said it would strike back, ratcheting up tensions as the two sides pursue last-ditch talks to try salvaging a trade deal. [more...]
Reuters: Sticker shock from Trump's new trade tariffs months away
It may take three or four months for American shoppers to feel the pinch from President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariff increases, but retailers will have little choice but to raise prices on a wide range of goods to cover the rising cost of imports before too long, according to economists and industry consultants. [more...]
CNBC: US tariffs on China jump as deadline passes, China immediately says it will retaliate
President Donald Trump raised the stakes in his trade conflict with China as the U.S. increased tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods. China's Commerce Ministry said immediately after the midnight ET deadline for the tariff hike that it would take countermeasures against the American move. [more...]
CNBC: US-China trade negotiations will continue on Friday, White House official says
American and Chinese negotiators have agreed to continue their trade talks, a White House spokesman said Thursday. That confirmation came after U.S. President Donald Trump met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday to discuss the negotiations to rescue a trade deal that is close to collapsing. [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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