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Will coffee futures recover in 2018?
January 11th, 2018
Coffee prices fared poorly last year, despite (depending on which analysis you follow) ideas of another world production deficit. The impact of the shortfall, evident in downbeat export data from Brazil and Vietnam, was muted by the extent to ...
Early investors review: Asian equities built on the best start to a year since 2006
January 9th, 2018
Asian equities built on the best start to a year since 2006 as Japanese traders returned from a holiday following new all-time highs for U.S. shares. The yen climbed in an apparent reaction to the Bank of Japan trimming ...
This is the currency that performs best at the start of a new year
January 3rd, 2018
If you are wondering which currency, other than the U.S. dollar, to hold at the start of a new year, past trades show you’ll be better off with euros. Using data analytics platform Kensho, CNBC looked at the average ...
Investment prospects for 2018
December 29th, 2017
Predicting the future is a mug’s game, and in financial markets we simply cannot know tomorrow’s prices. All we can do is make assessments of the factors that can be expected to influence them. Economists’ forecasts today, with ...
Agricultural commodity prices to fall again in 2018, says Goldman Sachs
December 27th, 2017
Agricultural commodity prices, on course for a third successive year of decline, are on course for a fourth, Goldman Sachs said, even as it lifted its forecast for cotton prices. The investment bank forecast commodity returns overall, as measured ...
European Association for Biometrics conference: easing the digital journey
November 21st, 2017
Customers are impatient and friction leads to lost sales – a key takeaway from last week’s seminar on the use of “Biometrics in Banking and Payments” organised by the European Association for Biometrics. Researched flagged by Michael Sass, VP ...
7 Cryptocurrency Predictions From the Experts
July 28th, 2017
Fortune convened some top cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bankers, and others to chat about the future of digital money at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo. last week. A select group met at the Aspen Institute for a ...
Toronto Stock Exchange Reaches Record Number of ETFs
July 21st, 2017
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced that it has reached a significant milestone with 500 exchange traded funds (ETFs) listed. This number has more than doubled in the past five years, bringing the total market capitalization of listed ETFs to ...
Google hires numerous law firms to fight EU fines
July 11th, 2017
Google is surrounding itself with some of the top law firms in Europe in the wake of its record-breaking €2.4 billion ‘illegal’ anti-trust ruling fine and the threat of more penalities on the horizon. Google is taking no chances ...
Crude oil rose to its highest since June 19
June 29th, 2017
Crude oil rose for a sixth straight session on Thursday to its highest since June 19 on a decline in U.S. output, but ongoing worries about global oversupply continued to drag. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 had ...
