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...In California, America’s most populous state and a big driver of the US economy, Democratic governor Gavin Newsom last week ordered a shutdown of all bars across the state, and banned indoor operations for...
...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...
...“This is part of a much broader culture war in the United States over these social issues....
...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...
...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...
...increase on a constant currency basis....
...The storm shut down 900,000 barrels per day of oil refining capacity on Saturday and 430,000 barrels per day of oil production was shut off in the Gulf of Mexico....
...In particular, it achieved growth in sales of holidays to Thailand, Cape Verde, Cyprus and North Africa. Analysts have been forecasting 12 per cent constant-currency growth in earnings for the year....
...While the weakness in the currency overnight marked a change, it is premature to think that the People’s Bank of China is now advocating outright weakness....
...The pound‘s grinding descent is continuing, sending it to its weakest level against the euro since the flash crash in October, reaching £0.9142 against the shared currency....
...Mr Dudley’s remarks also overshadowed the latest controversy from the White House in which President Donald Trump has aggressively criticised the head of Merck, one of America’s biggest pharmaceuticals companies...
...Japan’s Topix was picking up in afternoon trading, gaining 0.1 per cent. Currencies were stabilising after a drop in the US dollar....
...FTSE 250 pharmaceuticals group Indivior has suffered a major setback in its efforts to prevent the launch of generic competitors to its key product, heightening the risk of an increase in competition that...
...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....
...At its highs of the day, it had gained 2.71 per cent on the buck, according to Bloomberg data....
...Millennium’s full year measure of revenues per room (RevPAR), a key hotel metric, was up by 6.6 per cent last year to £76.71 but fell when measured in constant currency terms by 2.3 per cent....
...All regions, except the United Kingdom, Latin America and Central & Eastern Europe showed lower revenue than the prior year and all sectors were down, with advertising & media investment management and data...
...Weakness in the US dollar, the currency in which gold is denominated, helped improve sentiment as it makes gold cheaper to foreign buyers....
...states such as Ohio and Michigan....
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat at 95.284 today, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury was flat at 1.6907 per cent....
...the United States.”...
...We do not expect the Fed to hike before December this year, and they could wait longer,” said analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who forecast two 25 basis point rate rises in both 2017 and 2018....
...(fivethirtyeight) Number of the day 61%–25% Clinton’s share of the vote v Trump’s share, among millennials, according to a new Harvard poll....
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