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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....
...Emperor: A New Life of Charles V , by Geoffrey Parker, Yale, RRP£25/$35, 760 pages Suzannah Lipscomb is professor of history at the University of Roehampton and author of ‘The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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....
...corporate America, and the tendency of the Vix to spike significantly in recent election cycles when party leadership in the White House has changed (1992, 2000, and 2008)”....
...Bank credit to the private sector is equal to 128 per cent of GDP. In the US it is only 48 per cent....
...(FT) Star Wars smashes US records The Force Awakens, the latest in the sci-fi film franchise, has unseated Avatar to become the top film of all time in North America....
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...(FT) HSBC to charge for deposits The bank said it would introduce fees for clients this summer on deposits in Swiss francs, Danish krone and Swedish krona – all currencies of countries with negative interest...
...Japan’s economy grew at an annualised pace of 3.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2015 as revised data showed the best performance since the introduction of last year’s consumption tax rise....
...the world’s biggest non-state oil group, according to some analysts....
...When Vladimir Putin undermined the strategic state of Ukraine, Europe stood and watched. Part of the problem is that nations have no chill-up-your-spine loyalty to Europe....
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...V&A director Martin Roth seems to have brought the former journalist in as a kind of provocateur....
...I still doubt that this extends to the Baltic states, which in theory “benefit” from protection under Nato’s Article V defence clause....
...In June, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency noted that the average amount of an auto loan was greater than the value of the car during the fourth quarter of 2013, as lenders bundled the costs...
...US secretary of state John Kerry and Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the UN, said in a statement that an “unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” had been agreed by all parties and would begin at 8am local...
...and one of the credit strengths of the United States’ status as custodian of the dollar, the world’s leading reserve currency....
...lapels in varying sizes and fabrics, along with shirts in white and black with V-shaped or rounded collars, waistcoats, ties, cufflinks and shoes....
...The figures should cast light on the state of the economy before and during the fiscal crisis that gripped Washington for 16 days, threatening the recovery’s momentum....
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