Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The firm, which trades tens of thousands of products, including currencies, exchange traded funds and options, reported profits of $5.9bn in 2023 and $6.7bn in 2022....
...Motel One has expanded from Germany since Proprium’s original investment, with 94 hotels and 26,470 rooms in countries including the UK, France, US and Spain at the end of last year....
...The top US consumer finance watchdog has raised doubts about megamergers in the credit card industry, just as Capital One attempts to close its $35.3bn takeover of card issuer Discover Financial Services...
...Most of the nearly $500bn increase in assets under management in the first quarter was due to rising equity markets. In the US, the S&P 500 had its best first quarter since 2019....
...The yen’s stability has made it currency of choice for investors placing carry trades, whereby an investor borrows in a low-yielding currency in order to fund investments in higher-yielding currencies and...
...An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin Free Press £25/Simon & Schuster $35, 480 pages Peter Spiegel is the FT’s US managing editor Join our online book group...
...In contrast, its once potent rival USDC, issued by US company Circle, has slumped from a $42bn market cap this time last year to $27bn, a decline of 35 per cent....
...Rate-sensitive two-year Treasury yields slipped 0.03 percentage points to 4.35 per cent. A measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of six other currencies inched 0.1 per cent higher....
...WisdomTree Europe head Alexis Marinof said the launch of spot bitcoin ETFs in the US had “captured a lot of attention in Europe”....
...The result is that Egypt now looks to have stabilised after two years of crisis marked by soaring inflation — which topped 35 per cent in February — and a suffocating foreign currency shortage....
...There is also some limited trade denominated in local currencies to avoid Ukraine-related US trade and financial sanctions....
...Priced in dollars, gold typically falls when the US dollar strengthens to adjust for the fact that the currency’s rise has made the metal more expensive in other currencies....
...The black-market currency discount has disappeared in Nigeria, and all but disappeared in Egypt. Financial life is starting to look more normal. That doesn’t seal a bright future....
...“The BoI did a pretty good job defending levels beyond 4.00 per US dollar and the disclosure of central bank FX [currency] intervention firepower managed to suppress speculative short shekel flows,” said...
...Before the Merge, if the ethereum network were a country, it would have ranked in the world’s top 35 by energy consumption, surpassing nations like Belgium and Finland....
...That would favour non-US markets but one in particular tends to do very well when the dollar weakens — local currency emerging market debt....
...They would also have to manage the currency conversions, he added....
...The price of the digital currency leapt more than 10 per cent in the past 24 hours to $35,000 a token as traders grew increasingly confident the Securities and Exchange Commission would approve an exchange-traded...
...Investors say the 35 per cent fall in the lira against the dollar this year has also helped to make Turkish assets look more appealing....
...Treasuries and similar cash equivalents, and PayPal USD can be bought or sold through PayPal at a rate of $1.00 per PayPal USD....
...Crypto’s confident, scornful and punky start came to mind this week for some when bitcoin surged to roughly $35,000....
...Food inflation is rising even faster at 35 per cent. You know, the cost of most staple food items has doubled in the past year or so....
...the Comptroller of the Currency, contending the merger was “well-positioned for approval”....
International Edition