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...Global X manages $41.8bn in assets across 107 ETFs, according to Morningstar....
...Since many of these are older generation machines, like the Antminer S9, it is less cost effective to ship them to locations such as the United States. In July, the price of an S9 dipped to just $367....
...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....
...The 41-year-old son-in-law of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan “failed to answer any questions convincingly”, this person said....
...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...
...To give one example of this lack of trust, consider the internationalisation of the Chinese currency. A superpower must surely have a currency that is freely traded throughout the world....
...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...
..., rather than a rogue state....
...In other words, to meet the energy costs of Bitcoin mining, on these numbers a single currency future might need somewhere in the region of 44,000 nuclear power plants....
...But reaction to news of a delay to a vote on the measures in the Senate remains sanguine, and the index tracking the world’s currency is down 0.2 per cent at 92.852....
...In currencies, the US dollar index rose 0.41 per cent, with major trading partners including the UK pound, euro and Japanese yen coming under pressure....
...Gold is off 0.5 per cent at $1,273.41 per ounce....
...The top financial regulator in New York state has fined Credit Suisse $135m for a string of abuses in foreign-exchange trading, six months after slapping a $350m penalty on BNP Paribas for similar offences...
...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...
...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....
...If any of those ships had sunk, the Bank would not have received a penny in return for the loss of almost 41,000 bars, because the shipments were irreplaceable and thus uninsurable....
...Japan’s Topix was picking up in afternoon trading, gaining 0.1 per cent. Currencies were stabilising after a drop in the US dollar....
...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...
...This forecast came as it reported a 41 per cent year on year increase in revenues in the six months to July 29, to £1.4bn, and like-for-like store sales growth of approximately 3 per cent plus “significant...
...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....
...However, it also achieved a 17 per cent increase in rental revenue with currency effects stripped out....
...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....
...But he expressed concern that less-well resourced Gulf states such as Oman and Bahrain could eventually need bailouts from their wealthier neighbours in order to protect their currency pegs against the dollar...
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