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By James Ramelli |
April 11, 2013
With the continuing asset purchases by the Federal Reserve and recent policy shifts in Japan, can the ECB afford to maintain their current policy?
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By Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Sarah Pringle, Bloomberg |
February 20, 2013
U.S. benchmark stock indexes tumbled from five-year highs while oil, gold and silver led commodities lower as minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting showed policy makers debated the risks and benefits of bond purchases.
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By Justin Pugsley |
February 19, 2013
Currency wars are alive and well and despite G-20 agreements not to engage in competitive devaluations, there is in fact little appetite among the perpetrators to call it a day.
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By Austin Kiddle |
February 13, 2013
Gold price has benefited as a hedge against fiat currency devaluation. The aversion to currency wars will likely hurt gold demand and gold prices.
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By Joseph Ciolli and Lu Wang, Bloomberg |
February 12, 2013
The yen jumped as an official from the Group of Seven nations said the countries are concerned about volatility in Japan’s currency. U.S. stocks advanced as investors dissected earnings reports.
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By Simon Kennedy and Gonzalo Vina, Bloomberg |
February 12, 2013
Group of Seven policy makers roiled the currency markets they sought to calm amid conflicting messages on how much of an economic threat is posed by the weakening yen.
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By Simon Kennedy and Gonzalo Vina, Bloomberg |
February 12, 2013
The world’s major industrial nations sought to soothe mounting fears of a currency war with a pledge to avoid devaluing their exchange rates in the pursuit of stronger economic growth.
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By Marcus Holland |
February 11, 2013
The rally in the dollar has created headwinds for gold futures prices, pushing the yellow metal toward support levels. Dollar strength has come on the heels of better than expected U.S. data.
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By Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg |
February 11, 2013
The Group of Seven nations are considering saying they won’t target exchange rates when setting policy as they try to calm concern the world is on the brink of a currency war, two officials from G-7 countries said.
