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...Yes, the US has the most powerful military in the world. But the . . . what would Joe Nye used to call the soft power of the United States?...
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...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...
...Markets were pricing in a 91 per cent chance of an October rise, Mr Viraj said, “with the tailwind of positive Nafta news helping the case for further BoC tightening.”...
...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...
...The first pension plan covering public sector employees in the United States was set up in 1857 and the first plan covering private sector workers was established in 1875 (Employee Benefits Research Institute...
...Mr Perry’s reasoning, which was persuasive enough for the Supreme Court to review the ruling, is that the US constitution considers judges “officers of the United States” and as such they must be appointed...
...Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab and several senior Turkish officials — including a former economy minister and executives from a state-owned bank — have been accused of involvement in a scheme to...
...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 dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a weighted basket of peers, rose 0.2 per cent to 91.545 as concerns that Irma would hit Florida with the force of a Category 5 hurricane dissipated...
...“Mr Jia has been in America, and I have not been able to talk to him in a month,” says a LeEco executive in Beijing, who did not wish to be named....
...The dollar index, a measure of the buck against half-a-dozen developed market currencies, slid as much as 0.49 per cent to 91.759, the lowest level since January 2015, according to Reuters data....
...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 dollar index is heading for the May 2016 low of 91.91, at which point currency positions would be close to the extremes of 2008, analysts note....
...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....
...The Nasdaq Composite was 0.1 per cent higher at 6,121.23, notching a weekly gain of 0.3 per cent, having set a new all-time closing high of 6,129 on Wednesday....
...In the meantime, the dollar is continuing to drift lower, with the index tracking the greenback against six of its rivals 0.1 per cent weaker at 93.317, within sight of the May 2016 low of 91.919....
...Westad puts it well: “The question often asked — why was there a cold war when the United States and the USSR could be allies in World War II? — is the wrong question....
...The pace of decline in Japanese profits quickened to minus 10 per cent from a 9.3 per cent contraction in the first three months of the year....
...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....
...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....
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