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America’s financial war strategy

23/04/2017(0)
America’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war, this time directed at North Korea, Syria and possibly Iran. This is likely to ... Read More
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FED expected to raise interest rates for the second time in 10 years

14/12/2016(0)
Fed expected to raise interest rates but won’t tell market what it wants to hear The markets want to hear whether the Trump economy could jolt the Fed into ... Read More
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Oil price falls back from one-year highs, hit by OPEC deal concerns

11/10/2016(0)
Oil fell back from one-year highs on Tuesday, knocked by concerns that a production cut by the world’s largest exporters might not be enough to erode a two-year old ... Read More
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The root cause of monetary confusion

23/09/2016(0)
Arguments about sound and unsound money often degenerate into a them-and-us dispute, with the supporters of unsound money casting sound money proponents as impractical out-of-date libertarian weirdos. Supporting one ... Read More
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Gold outlook improves

12/02/2016(0)
There is a conflation of three related events that materially alter the prospects in favour of a higher gold price. The change in the outlook for US interest rates ... Read More
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Whole Lotta Bear Markets Goin’ On

29/09/2015(0)
The Dow and S&P 500 have fallen by around 10% since August, which in normal times would be hardly worth mentioning. But below the surface, in what used to ... Read More
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Fed ready to raise rates – what will be the impact on the US and global economies?

15/07/2015(0)
One of the biggest economic events of 2015 is likely to be the US Fed hiking up its policy rate later in the year, say PwC economists. Assuming this happens, ... Read More
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Asia Stocks Drop on Fed; H-Share Index Near Bear Market

20/03/2014(0)
Asian stocks fell, with a gauge of Chinese shares in Hong Kong poised to enter a bear market, after the Federal Reserve signaled it may raise U.S. interest rates ... Read More
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