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CNBC: Bond market yield curve inverts, signaling Fed may be too slow to cut rates, risks recession
Market moves were modest after the Fed released minutes of its last meeting, but the message was clear — the market still fears the Federal Reserve will not be aggressive enough in its rate cutting to save the economy. [more...]
Bloomberg: Stocks Drift as Traders Mull Fed; U.S. Yields Dip: Markets Wrap
Futures in the U.S. and Europe dipped and stocks in Asia drifted Thursday as investors found little in minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting to alter expectations for more aggressive interest-rate cuts. Treasury yields edged lower and the yuan weakened. [more...]
Bloomberg: Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave From AI Lab
The co-founder of DeepMind, the high-profile artificial intelligence lab owned by Google, has been placed on leave after controversy over some of the projects he led. Mustafa Suleyman runs DeepMind’s “applied” division, which seeks practical uses for the lab’s research in health, energy and other fields. [more...]
Bloomberg: Stocks Pare Gains, Bonds Drop After Fed Minutes: Markets Wrap
U.S. stocks pared gains and Treasuries fell as Federal Reserve minutes fell short of signaling the central bank was ready to cut rates sharply. The S&P 500 Index moved away from Wednesday’s highs and two-year Treasury yields surged after the minutes indicated the Fed is prepared to ease if economic conditions worsen. [more...]
Bloomberg: Amazon Opens Its Largest Campus Yet
Amazon.com Inc. today opened its largest campus building globally in the south Indian city of Hyderabad as it prepares for a furious expansion and battle with nemesis Walmart Inc. in one of the world’s fastest-growing retail markets. [more...]
Bloomberg: Qantas Tests 20-Hour Non-Stop Flights to See If Passengers Can Bear It
Qantas Airways Ltd. will run marathon ghost flights from New York and London to Sydney carrying just a few staff to see how the human body holds up before commercial services start. Qantas said Thursday it will simulate the world’s longest direct flights with Boeing Co. Dreamliners as soon as October. [more...]
Bloomberg: The $30 Billion Exodus: Foreign Oil Firms Are Bailing on Canada
Capital keeps marching out of Canada’s oil industry, with Kinder Morgan Inc.’s sale of its remaining holdings in the country on Wednesday adding to more than $30 billion of foreign-company divestitures in the past three years. [more...]
Bloomberg: Fed May Be More Aggressive With Bond Buying Next Time Around
Federal Reserve officials, who are midway through an unprecedented review of how they conduct monetary policy, took a little victory lap over their crisis-era bond purchases and suggested they may use the practice even more aggressively next time. [more...]
Bloomberg: Traders Maintain Bets on 2019 Fed Easing After FOMC Minutes
The amount of U.S. central-bank easing priced in by the futures market for this year was little changed following the release minutes of the Federal Reserve’s most recent policy meeting. [more...]
Bloomberg: How Iran Is Using Currency Reforms to Withstand Trump
U.S. sanctions are battering Iran’s economy. They have all but stopped Western companies from investing in the Islamic Republic, sent oil production crashing to its lowest level in more than three decades and led to a dire scarcity of foreign exchange. Inflation has accelerated to more than 50%, and some foods and medicines are running short. [more...]
Reuters: Fed was divided on rate cut, wanted to avoid appearing on path for more cuts
Federal Reserve policymakers were deeply divided over whether to cut interest rates last month but were united in wanting to signal they were not on a preset path to more cuts, a message not likely to sit well with U.S. President Donald Trump. [more...]
Reuters: Traders exit complex bearish U.S. oil options as Cushing supplies tighten
Oil traders raced to abandon complex, bearish options trades in U.S. crude this week, after the market rapidly shifted to reflect tighter supplies at the key Oklahoma storage hub over the past month, leading to a surge of activity in a typically illiquid corner of the market. [more...]
CNBC: A trade war with Europe would be larger and more damaging than Washington's spat with China
The United States has more to lose from a full-blown trade war with the EU than it does with its current conflict with China, experts have told CNBC. President Donald Trump has kept up his tough rhetoric against the European Union despite focusing on Chinese tariffs in recent months. [more...]
CNBC: I am the Chosen One,’ Trump proclaims as he defends trade war with China
President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared himself “the Chosen One” as he defended his administration’s actions in the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. The president’s self-aggrandizing remark followed a string of criticisms aimed at his predecessors, whom he claimed had ignored the consequences of China’s trade practices. [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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