Search Results for: United States
A primer for gold newbies
April 7th, 2020
The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become suddenly apparent, hastened by the spread of the coronavirus. For ...
The US Dollar has risen in value this year
April 7th, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has caused millions of people to lose their jobs and brought the economy to its knees but it has not dethroned the American dollar. To the contrary, the currency has risen in ...
The dollar rises against major currencies and riskier emerging markets
March 30th, 2020
The dollar snapped a week of declines on Monday, rising against major currencies and riskier emerging markets as investors braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty while governments tightened lockdowns to fight the coronavirus. China’s offshore yuan fell after ...
Feeling Adventurous? Consider Silver
March 16th, 2020
Silver is getting crushed in the pandemic-driven flight to safety — which might have created one of those blood-in-the-streets opportunities that contrarian investors dream about. To understand why, lets start with the gold/silver ratio. The relationship between the prices ...
EU-US trade in goods: €153 billion surplus in 2019
March 11th, 2020
In 2019, the United States was the largest partner for EU exports of goods (18% of total extra-EU exports) and second largest for EU imports of goods (12% of total extra-EU imports), after China (19%). Looking at the period ...
U.S. Financial Regulator wins Forex fraud trial; Defendants to pay more than $22.6 million
March 5th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that following a bench trial the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama entered a final judgment against defendants Husam Tayeh of Illinois and his companies, Dinar Corp., Inc. and ...
Coronavirus and credit – a perfect storm
February 19th, 2020
This article posits that the spread of the coronavirus coincides with the downturn in the global credit cycle, with potentially catastrophic results. At the time of writing, analysts are still trying to get to grips with the virus’s ...
Dollar at 2-month high, Aussie weak as virus anxiety spreads
January 30th, 2020
The dollar held near a two-month high against a basket of major currencies while the Australian dollar and the yuan were under pressure on Thursday as investors tried to shield themselves from assets that could be hit by China’s ...
Emerging currencies: Latam currencies weaken
January 14th, 2020
Brazil’s real slid to a one-month low on Monday, leading a decline across major currencies in Latin America, while Sao Paulo-listed stocks ended a six-session losing streak amid a rally in global markets fueled by trade optimism. Extending losses ...
Europeans should control their B-to-B data, says EU commissioner
January 8th, 2020
The United States and China are the world’s leaders in harvesting and exploiting personal data and the European Union must make sure the same thing does not happen when it comes to business-to-business data, the new EU commissioner for ...
