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...The commitment to greater use of local currencies fell short of the anti-dollar rhetoric heard before the summit, such as Brazil’s Lula floating the idea of a Brics common currency as a unit of trade....
...“The United States faces serious long-run fiscal challenges....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...This is an exceptionally common sentiment in the United States — it’s why Russel Honoré was appointed to oversee the January 6 inquiry, and why Gustave Perna was handed Operation Warp Speed....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...America creates about a quarter of global GDP, but well over half of the currency reserves of the world's central banks is socked away in dollars — $6.6tn of $11.4tn....
...We should also note this guy, who’s doing his thing: A reminder that Donald Trump, who despite everything remains The Actual President of the United States, tweeted on April 2 that a deal to end the oil...
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...So in 2017, there were almost 6,000 women who came into Illinois to get an abortion from the surrounding states. From one of these states. From one of these states into the middle....
...The dovish tone of US policymakers this week briefly pushed the dollar index to a three-month low, in turn helping China’s renminbi to reach its highest point against the US currency since July, despite...
...The economic calendar for Friday has a bit of holiday spirit about it (all times London): 7.00: Turkey consumer price index9.30: UK Markit-CIPS construction purchasing managers’ index10.00: eurozone producer...
...The first employer-sponsored pension plan in Canada was introduced in 1874 (Gale et al., 2006). By contrast, some countries have only recently introduced private pension plans....
...European markets Eurofirst 300 down -11.25 (-0.74%) at 1,508 FTSE100 down -26.18 (-0.36%) at 7,300 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,317 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,861 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.19...
...(-0.21%) at 27,586 US markets S&P 500 up +10.20 (+0.41%) at 2,507 DJIA up +56.39 (+0.25%) at 22,341 Nasdaq up +73.10 (+1.15%) at 6,453 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +6.00 (+0.40%) at 1,516 FTSE100...
...European markets Eurofirst 300 down -4.66 (-0.30%) at 1,538 FTSE100 down -3.90 (-0.05%) at 7,497 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,399 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,126 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18)...
...Mian et al also found that the states to deregulate first weren’t more volatile than the rest of America back in the 1960s or 1970s, nor can their findings be explained by the big drop in the oil price in...
...Currencies were stabilising after a drop in the US dollar....
...The economic calendar for Friday is as follows (all London times): 07.00: Finland Q2 gross domestic product 07.00: Czech Republic Q2 GDP (preliminary) 08.00: Poland August purchasing managers’ index 08.15...
...(+0.51%) at 6,875 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -0.10 (-0.01%) at 1,531 FTSE100 up +59.52 (+0.80%) at 7,453 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,387 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,124 Currencies...
...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....
...The economic calendar leans heavily towards the state of Europe’s manufacturing and services sectors (all times London): 08.00: France manufacturing, services purchasing managers’ index 08.00: European...
...It dropped 0.8 per cent as investors awaited the outcome of a key gubernatorial election for the state of Mexico, but then reversed course to show a of rise 0.6 per cent to 18.5685 per dollar as officials...
...Hot topic Donald Trump will be sworn in on Friday as the 45th president of the United States of America, and investors are waiting to see if the property developer’s fiscal pledges can boost the world’s...
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