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Federal Judge Rules Bitcoin is Money in US Trial
September 20th, 2016
A federal judge in New York has ruled that bitcoin constitutes a form of money. The ruling comes from the ongoing case involving the now-defunct Florida bitcoin exchange Coin.mx and one of its former operators, Anthony Murgio. Murgio, who was indicted ...
Dollar rockets to two-week high versus yen as Fed officials signal rate hikes
August 29th, 2016
The dollar rose Monday to its strongest level against the yen in three weeks after several top Federal Reserve officials hinted that the central bank would raise interest rates at least once by the end of 2016. The greenback ...
Fed’s Dislike of Negative Interest Rates Points to Limits of Stimulus Measures
August 29th, 2016
Federal Reserve officials are content to watch others’ experience of negative rates from a distance Federal Reserve officials are turning a cold shoulder to a controversial idea being tried in Japan and much of Europe to boost anemic economies: ...
Precious Metals Slide on Stronger Dollar Before Fed as Yen Drops
July 25th, 2016
Ringgit falls sixth day to lead Asian currency declines Turkish stocks climb after steepest weekly drop since 2008 The dollar’s strength weighed on precious metals as investors looked toward central bank meetings this week in the U.S. and Japan. European ...
Asia currencies jump after weak US jobs report dents Fed interest rate hike hopes
June 7th, 2016
Asia currencies got a bump up Monday after the dollar took a hit from a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report, but it isn’t clear if the move is sustainable. U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose by only 38,000 in May, a far ...
Tame U.S. inflation supports Fed’s cautious rate policy
April 15th, 2016
U.S. consumer prices barely rose in March and underlying inflation slowed, suggesting little urgency for a cautious Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in the near term. The benign inflation backdrop is prevailing despite tightening labor market conditions, underscored ...
Dollar hits 17-month low vs. yen, dented by Fed’s cautious stance
April 7th, 2016
The dollar slid to a 17-month low against the yen on Thursday, pressured by minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s meeting last month that underscored caution about future interest rate hikes. The dollar fell to 109.10 yen at one ...
YELLEN: The Fed is in no rush to raise rates
March 30th, 2016
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reiterated on Tuesday that interest rates would rise slowly. Yellen was speaking at the Economic Club of New York. In her prepared remarkspublished before the speech Tuesday, Yellen said raising rates with caution was “especially ...
On the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the People’s Bank of China
December 21st, 2015
Heads of governments of Russia and China during their 20th Meeting, held in Beijing on December 17, 2015, welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding by Governor of the Bank of Russia, Ms. Elvira Nabiullina, and Governor of ...
PRECIOUS-Gold stays firm after Fed raises rates
December 17th, 2015
Gold held gains on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, as expected, making clear it was a tentative beginning to a “gradual” tightening cycle. The U.S. central bank’s ...
