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By Silla Brush |
April 19, 2013
The $639 trillion global swaps market is starting to fragment because regulators are failing to agree on the cross-border rules.
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By Mike Cohen and Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg |
March 26, 2013
The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up institutions that encroach on the roles of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
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By Aki Ito, Bloomberg |
February 15, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. economy is far from operating at full strength and reiterated his commitment to record easing.
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By Toru Fujioka, Ian Katz and Raymond Colitt, Bloomberg |
February 15, 2013
Group of 20 finance chiefs are planning to disavow competitive devaluations in a statement to be released after talks end in Moscow tomorrow, according to an official from a G-20 nation.
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By Isis Almeida, Bloomberg |
February 12, 2013
Brazilian ethanol prices trading above raw sugar futures for the first time in almost two years are spurring speculation that millers will favor making the biofuel over the sweetener in the season starting in April.
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By Stephen Kirkland, Inyoung Hwang and Leslie Picker, Bloomberg |
February 8, 2013
Stocks and commodities rose as Europe’s leaders reached a budget agreement, China’s trade expanded more than estimated and companies posted better-than- forecast earnings. Spanish bonds gained and the yen rallied.
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By Blake Schmidt and Marisa Castellani, Bloomberg |
February 8, 2013
Brazil’s real touched a nine-month high as Finance Minister Guido Mantega signaled that the government will allow the currency to appreciate another 5% before the central bank intervened to stem gains.
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By Simon Kennedy and Scott Rose, Bloomberg |
January 16, 2013
The world is on the brink of a fresh “currency war,” Russia warned, as European policy makers joined Japan in bemoaning the economic cost of rising exchange rates.
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By Blake Schmidt and Telma Marotto, Bloomberg |
December 20, 2012
Brazil’s real rose to a one-month high two days after the central bank eased reserve requirements for bets against the dollar on concern the local currency’s decline this year would cause inflation to accelerate.
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By David Biller, Bloomberg |
November 30, 2012
Brazil’s economy expanded in the third quarter at half the pace forecast by economists, as government stimulus efforts fail to revive investment that fell for the fifth straight period. Rate futures plunged.
