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Bloomberg: Pound Plunges to Two-Year Low on Signs of Economic Gloom
The pound slumped to a two-year low as signs of economic downturn mounted in a market increasingly betting that policy makers will have to cut borrowing costs. [more...]
Bloomberg: Stocks Trade Mixed Ahead of Powell Testimony: Markets Wrap
Stocks in Asia were mixed Wednesday after a subdued session on Wall Street, as investors awaited clues on policy from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Treasury yields touched a three-week high, offering support to the dollar. [more...]
Bloomberg: If You Flew Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ Private Jet—the Feds Want to Talk to You
After Jeffrey Epstein’s latest arrest on sex trafficking charges, some famous people may be squirming. His notorious little black book and private-jet manifests contained a long list of boldface names, including Victoria’s Secret mogul Leslie Wexner and former president Bill Clinton. [more...]
Bloomberg: Walmart Got a $10 Billion Surprise After Buying Flipkart
When Walmart Inc. paid $16 billion for control of India’s e-commerce pioneer Flipkart Online Services Pvt. last year, the American retail giant got a little-noticed digital payments subsidiary as part of the deal. [more...]
Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank Lured Staff to Florida. What Comes Next Is Secret
They live in rows of tidy townhouses, setting out early every weekday for a short walk to Deutsche Bank AG’s lush corporate campus. For the closest, it’s just across the street. [more...]
Bloomberg: Trade War Threatens Chinese Factories’ Existence, Supplier Says
The world’s largest supplier of consumer goods says China’s factories are getting “urgent and desperate” as worried U.S. retailers accelerate a move out of the country amid heightened trade tensions. [more...]
Bloomberg: The ‘Fed Put’ Party Will Be Spoiled by Bad Earnings, UBS Warns
Investors banking on the “Fed Put” keeping the equity rally going should be getting worried about the direction of earnings growth, according to UBS Group AG. [more...]
Bloomberg: The Bond Rally Is So Wild Investors Are Piling Into Italy’s 50-Year Debt
The global bond rally is so fierce that even on an off-day investors keep piling in. Such is the frenzy for government debt just now that Italy, long considered Europe’s fiscal problem child, on Tuesday attracted demand of around 17.5 billion euros ($19.6 billion) for bonds that won’t mature until 2067. [more...]
Bloomberg: China Wants Its Own Goldman Sachs. It Has a Big Headache Instead
The man tasked with building a Goldman Sachs for Communist China was done playing nice. With hundreds of staff gathered to hear him speak at the Beijing Four Seasons hotel in January, Citic Securities Co. Chairman Zhang Youjun called out leaders of his firm’s international unit by name and questioned their ability to earn a decent return on capital. [more...]
Bloomberg: Dyson Billionaire Buys $54 Million Singapore Penthouse, Setting New Record
Vacuum cleaners and super-quiet hairdryers have made a lot of money for Dyson Ltd. chairman and founder James Dyson. So much so that he and his wife have splashed out S$73.8 million ($54.2 million) for the highest penthouse in Singapore, according to a local media report in the Business Times. [more...]
Reuters: Fed chief likely to focus on trade-inspired policy shift in testimony
The U.S. Federal Reserve over the course of its 105-year history has changed monetary policy in reaction to property crashes, war, financial bubbles and policymakers’ gut instincts about where the economy was heading. [more...]
Reuters: Trump says won't deal with UK ambassador after leak of 'inept' memos
Donald Trump said he would not deal with Britain’s ambassador to Washington after a leak of confidential memos in which the diplomat described the U.S. president’s administration as “inept”. [more...]
CNBC: Lighthizer, Mnuchin spoke with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Tuesday
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke to Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan “to continue negotiations aimed at resolving the outstanding trade disputes” between the world’s two largest economies, according to a U.S. official. The official said “both sides will continue these talks as appropriate.” [more...]
CNBC: Cramer: We have ‘real reason to be worried’ about the global economy
The market “threw us a bit of a curve ball” Tuesday as investors avoided reliable defensive stocks even after Wall Street received critical evidence that the global economy is stumbling, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. [more...]
CNBC: There’s a strange phenomenon reportedly influencing the direction of the stock market each day
These days it’s not strange to see the market going from a long period of serenity to complete chaos in the blink of an eye. One explanation is a phenomenon dubbed a “gamma trap,” The Wall Street Journal reported. [more...] |
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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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