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...Ex-con Steven Smith has recorded the story of his life on his mobile phone....
...Steven Galanis, 34, worked as an options trader and then at LinkedIn before starting Cameo, where he is now the business end of the operation, focused on “building the brand and scaling the machine”....
...Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex notes: “Many of the facilities that the Fed announced in March and April have yet to be launched, like ones for the corporate bonds and business loans.”...
...Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex, said the move by the Trump administration “won’t stand up in the court of public opinion”....
...“The market is convinced that the seeming encroachment on the Fed’s independence will not impact policy,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex....
...Steven Ricchiuto at Mizuho focuses on real bond yields — which have climbed sharply as mentioned earlier — and says where they go from here “will depend a lot on the midterm elections, especially now that...
...Comments from US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin that a weak dollar is “good” for US trade had prompted the buck’s latest leg lower, said Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman....
...US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has broken with tradition by declaring a weaker dollar is good for American trade in comments that have fuelled market speculation that Washington is seeking to depress...
...After Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sparked intense selling of the dollar, Donald Trump stepped up at Davos and said a strong dollar was preferred....
...Here is more of Steven Englander....
...Medicine Prof Bianca De Stavola Professor of Medical Statistics, University College London Prof Martin McKee Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dr Clare Chandler...
...“Complacent long positions have been shaken out of the Bund market following what appears to be a change in central bank focus”, said Steven Major at HSBC....
...“If the 100 level is breached now, a return to the early February low [of 99.23] looks more likely,” Mr Chandler said....
...As Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman says, “the tide of sentiment has turned against the dollar”. Jackson Hole is unlikely to halt it....
...Steven Mnuchin went on CNBC not only to announce that he was the president-elect’s pick as Treasury secretary but to outline what he thinks of the US economy and much else besides....
...After all, says Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman, there are a multitude of factors that influence currencies. “Ultimately, neither matters. Policy does,” Mr Chandler says....
...Celine Abrahams oozes fatigue as the duty-burdened schoolteacher Olga and Ivy Corbin’s Masha seethes with destructive loathing both of her tedious husband (Steven Rodgers) and herself....
...But Steven Englander at Citigroup says real yields have “a decent, albeit inferior correlation” with the euro-dollar exchange rate....
...This has all the makings of “economic paralysis”, Mr Chandler says. “I don’t see how the UK becomes more prosperous around this,” says Mr Chandler....
...“Both blades are moving,” Mr Chandler said....
...“Of all the things that drive a currency, a policymaker’s opinions is not in the top 10,” says Marc Chandler, head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman....
...It is not particularly useful to announce policy intentions via Twitter, said Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman, “but the tweets about specific companies has produced sharp market reactions”....
...But if we get past Brexit, the euro bounces,” said Mr Chandler....
...“It looks as if they probably decide what they are not going to talk about in order that they can say they didn’t discuss it,” says Citigroup’s G10 FX strategist Steven Englander....
...Citi’s Steven Englander provided a list of the ways the market received a more hawkish message than had perhaps been intended....
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