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By Dominick Chirichella |
April 3, 2013
Oil prices are drifting lower ahead of this morning’s EIA oil inventory report and after the API reported a much larger than expected build in crude oil but partially offset by a larger than expected draw in gasoline stocks.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
April 1, 2013
With central banks publicly decrying currency manipulation, the forex markets are returning to a semblance of normalcy. What will that mean for 2013?
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By Sandrine Rastello |
March 12, 2013
The IMF's No. 2 official urged policy makers to clean up banks and strengthen oversight of their financial systems.
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By Meera Louis, Bloomberg |
March 5, 2013
The U.S. Treasury Department’s top international official urged Group of Seven economies to avoid targeting exchange rates and let markets set currency levels, calling for full and timely data on the scale of nations’ interventions.
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By R. Scott Oswald |
February 22, 2013
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) may have tempered its ambition to regulate cross-border swaps, but whistleblowers abroad still will play an important role in preventing regulatory evasion.
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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 Kristine Aquino and Candice Zachariahs, Bloomberg |
February 20, 2013
New Zealand’s central bank governor said he’s ready to intervene in foreign-exchange markets, adding to comments by officials from South Korea to South America warning their currencies are too strong.
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By Rainer Buergin and Joseph de Weck, Bloomberg |
February 20, 2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed attempts to manipulate exchange rates, saying the present value of the euro against the dollar is within the currency’s normal range.
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By Austin Kiddle |
February 20, 2013
Speculators reduced their bets on rising commodities prices by 15% in the week ending Feb. 12, the largest weekly reduction since mid-November. However, the cleaner positioning can prepare the stage for a gold price rebound.
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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.
