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...In commodities, Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, declined 7.1 per cent to $68.38 a barrel....
...Today, it is one of the biggest shareholders in virtually every major company in America — and quite a few internationally as well....
...Read more The coronavirus risks the return of currency wars: but US monetary easing should be done with Japan and the eurozone and not to them, argues Robin Harding in the FT....
...We should also note this guy, who’s doing his thing: A reminder that Donald Trump, who despite everything remains The Actual President of the United States, tweeted on April 2 that a deal to end the oil...
...Canada has agreed to join a US deal with Mexico to revamp the pact, ending months of uncertainty over trade in North America that had been hanging over the economies of all three countries...
...Since the collapse of its oil-rich economy in 2014, the country has struggled to raise hard currency....
...The S&P 500 was 1.25 per cent higher early in Wednesday’s trading session, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was even higher, up 1.68 per cent....
...As container trucks rolled by under his office window near the Port of Baltimore, Cono Bucolo, a 68-year-old customs broker, described the reality of operating on the front lines of US president Donald Trump...
...There's evidence of the Alphaville team in several places today -- not just here on the blog, but also in the Palace of Westminster where Izabella Kaminska will give evidence on digital currencies to the...
...Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, 70, appointed by George H W Bush John Roberts, 63, appointed by George W Bush Samuel Alito Jr., 68, appointed by George W Bush Stephen Breyer, 79,...
...increase on a constant currency basis....
...Currency markets were stable in early Asia trading on Tuesday following a bumpy session for the pound a day earlier....
...per cent to $47.49 a barrel, while a barrel of Brent, the international benchmark, was up 0.5 per cent at $52.68....
...The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of peers, was flat in Asia trading. Oil prices were lower after the impact of Hurricane Irma was downgraded....
...A person close to the company said he had sold the shares to repay personal loans he had taken out in US dollars, following a sharp fall in the value of sterling relative to the US currency....
...The term “vsmall” referred to a specific trade volume, while the letter “v” buried in the middle of the US dollar-Swiss franc currency pair identified the particular BNP client that traded....
...— FT Alphaville *The world’s biggest oil producer is the United States. China is the fifth-biggest. Similarly, America is the biggest producer of natural gas, while China is in sixth place....
...While it might be argued that India is much poorer than the US — $15 in India is equivalent to $100 in the United States– the reality is that most Americans in the top one per cent of the income distribution...
...The big forex action is in the yen, which is 1 per cent weaker at ¥101.68 per dollar as investors take news of a slide in retail sales during August as another sign that the Bank of Japan will need to maintain...
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat at 95.88....
...US 10-year Treasury yields, which in early July hit a record low of 1.32 per cent, and which at one point on Friday touched a multi-week peak of 1.68 per cent, are a fraction of 1 basis point firmer at 1.68...
...The FTSE-100 software group last week agreed to buy assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a deal valued at $8.8bn....
...And it is all a result of one man. (The Atlantic) Man v machine Sensitivity to “gut feelings” is a strong predictor of success in financial trading, according to research led by Cambridge university....
...The maker of the eponymous toothpaste generates more than three quarters of its revenue from outside the United States, and the fall of a number of major developed and emerging market currencies against...
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