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...The dollar index, which tracks the currency against a basket of peers, was up 0.1 per cent 92.361 after a drop of 0.4 per cent overnight on dovish comments from US Federal Reserve officials....
...China’s currency weakened against the dollar on Monday despite the sharpest rise in the daily renminbi fix in a decade....
...(Bloomberg) In rapid succession on Thursday and Friday, the US will release two pieces of important economic data – on third-quarter output and the labour market in October – that were delayed by last month...
...(Financial Times) Johnson & Johnson is to pay more than $2.2bn in fines to US federal and state authorities for kickbacks and promotion of its medicines for diseases beyond their approved uses over more...
...(Reuters) State of emergency declared in Egypt; scores dead: “Egypt’s security services on Wednesday stormed two Cairo protest camps housing thousands of Islamists, killing scores and igniting a wave of...
...) unchanged 0.00 at 3.31 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.70% UK 2.94% Germany 1.92% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe -0.75bps at 87.24bp Markit iTraxx Europe +1.1bps at 100.26bp...
...Ferc said yesterday that the bank’s traders had engaged in eight “manipulative bidding strategies” that generated “tens of millions of dollars at rates far above market prices” in 2010 and 2011....
...€/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 89.59 (89.92) £/$ 1.59 (1.59) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.36 at 111.53 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.37 at 95.19 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,687 Copper (Comex...
...€/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 96.56 (96.26) £/$ 1.49 (1.49) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.34 at 109.88 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.01 at 92.05 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +2.00 at 1,580 Copper (Comex) up...
...The dollar fell to a 10-month low versus the euro while commodities rose, led by gains in corn and oil. http://bloom.bg/WTMjgT Concerns raised on east European migrants An influx of Romanians and Bulgarians...
...(Nymex) up +0.42 at 92.27 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +2.50 at 1,780...
...District Court in New York that “tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars” of loans made or sold in the state were affected by rigging the London interbank offered rate.”...
...If this can happen in the United States, what on earth is going to happen to us? And so you had a complete collapse of confidence, and world trade fell faster than even in the 1930s....
...Asian stocks rose on Thursday, with the region’s benchmark index set for its biggest two-day rally in a month, as Citigroup raised global profit estimates and news of Japan’s shrinking economy lifted chances...
...The fact that nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States attests to the dollar’s dominance of this dubious realm....
...The euro weakened to a record low of 1.2349 francs before trading at 1.2373. The Dollar Index rose 0.7% to its highest since March and Treasuries gained for a third day....
...millions of dollars on behalf of Pakistan’s intelligence service in payments to US officials, and other efforts to influence Washington’s policy, the FT reports....
...) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.04 at 105.95 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.29 at 90.90 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,496...
...The MSCI Asia Pacific Index advanced 0.8% to 138.65 as of 2:10pm in Tokyo. Futures on the S&P500 Index added 0.2%. Crude climbed 0.5% in New York after retreating the most in two weeks on Monday....
...S&P500 Index futures were little changed after a two-day jump in the gauge. The dollar weakened to its lowest level in three months against the euro....
...In currency markets, the yen was weaker against the dollar and euro, as officials from the EU and IMF travelled to Dublin to discuss an emergency aid package for Ireland’s stricken banking sector....
...(80.61) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.39 at 113.63 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.03 at 94.92 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,529...
...US ‘protectionist’ tone triggers disquiet in India A delegation of Indian IT companies will visit the United States next week to raise their concerns over what they fear are protectionist measures that could...
...And that’s the deal you get in a bankruptcy court. Only two parties do all right—the secured creditors and the advisors. They get 100 cents on the dollar....
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