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What Obama and Abe Didn’t Talk About
April 25th, 2014
As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently reminded readers, the dirtiest word an economist can call you is “Japanese.” Swedes must be stewing with regret for giving Krugman that Nobel Prize, after one of his columns likened the ...
Tokyo Inflation Quickens to Fastest Since 1992
April 25th, 2014
Tokyo’s consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1992, pumped up by a sales-tax increase and a year of unprecedented stimulus from the Bank of Japan. Inflation excluding fresh food accelerated ...
USD/CHF to cede ground
April 24th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook As the resistance at 0.8857 proved to be impenetrable, the bias towards USD/CHF is fairly negative. The currency pair could ultimately give up more than two figures to arrive at 0.86 (2011 lows) before regaining the upward ...
Europe Still Has a Mountain of Debt
April 24th, 2014
There was a time not so long ago when the vast majority of experts agreed that a country could not emerge decisively from a financial crisis unless it solved problems of both “stocks” and “flows” — that is, secured ...
Obama Says U.S. Ready to Move on Russia Sanctions
April 24th, 2014
President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its allies have additional sanctions against Russia ready to go as the crisis in Ukraine escalated with Ukrainian security forces moving against pro-Russian separatists. Russia has yet to act in the spirit ...
USD/JPY bounced off 102.82/72
April 23rd, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The currency pair is currently retreating from the resistance zone consisting of the monthly PP and 100-day SMA. The immediate support is represented by the 20 and 55-day SMAs, but USD/JPY is likely to decline deeper, to ...
Toyota Beats General Motors And Volkswagen In Q1 Sales to Retain Title Of Top-Selling Car Manufacturer
April 23rd, 2014
Toyota Motor Corp. (TYO:7203) sold more cars than any other global car maker in the first quarter of 2014 to retain the title of the world’s top-selling car manufacturer. The Japanese automaker said Wednesday that it sold 2.583 million ...
What’s ahead for Apple’s new CFO, Luca Maestri
April 22nd, 2014
Apple’s new CFO will have to deal with the tech giant’s massive cash reserves, as well as building a strong finance team in the first 100 days IN JUNE, the world’s largest company by market capitalisation will be getting ...
Insider Convictions Seen Too Easy in Chiasson Appeal
April 22nd, 2014
What looks like insider trading to one federal judge might not rise to the level of a crime to another. Or, in the case of two hedge fund managers fighting their convictions, to another three judges. Level Global Investors ...
Wall Street Bond Dealers Whipsawed on Bearish Treasuries Bet
April 22nd, 2014
Betting against U.S. government debt this year is turning out to be a fool’s errand. Just ask Wall Street’s biggest bond dealers. While the losses that their economists predicted have yet to materialize, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Citigroup ...
